![]() The book will be published by Simon & Schuster on Dec 1, 2015. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and con. ![]() The Andes Mountains are the worlds longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. During the journey, MacQuarrie investigated the lives and stories of Pablo Escobar, Che Guevara, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Charles Darwin, Thor (Kon Tiki) Heyerdahl, and even an Inca "Ice Maiden," sacrificed 500 years ago on top of a 20,000-foot volcano, yet still perfectly preserved. Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. MacQuarrie's latest book is about a 4,500-mile journey, from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego, and is called Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries. Currently, FX Channel is developing the book into a 13-part scripted television series, called Conquistadors. It was MacQuarrie's experience filming a nearby group of indigenous people, whose ancestors still remembered their contacts with the Inca Empire, that ultimately led him to investigate and then to write the book, The Last Days of the Incas. During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently-contacted tribe of indigenous Amazonians, called the Yora. ![]() ![]() MacQuarrie is the author of four books on Peru and lived in that country for five years. Kim MacQuarrie is a writer, a four-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and an anthropologist. ![]()
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