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MacQuarrie, Kim.

Summary: "Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in the Andes Mountains"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MAC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MAC

Summary: History reports that the mighty Inca were swiftly wiped out by a small band of Conquistadors, but new evidence is being unearthed that may help rewrite history. Uncovered remains of those who died in battle along with recently discovered documents suggest that even after forming military alliances with thousands of Indian mercenaries, it took the Spanish many years to defeat the Inca Empire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRE

Markovics, Joyce L.

Summary: "Inca mummies hold fascinating secrets. They teach us hidden facts about the past. This narrative nonfiction book examines Inca mummies and the mummification process. Look inside to uncover these ancient treasures!"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Science Markovics

Summary: On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile, then vanished into thin air. Sixteen of the 45 passenger resurfaced, 72 days after their plane crashed. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to tell their story in their own words.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STR

Parrado, Nando

Summary: A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 982 PAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival Parrado

Read, Piers Paul

Summary: On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a teamof rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 982 READ

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 982.6 Rea

Cygelman, Adèle.

Summary: Examines the impact architects and designers have had on Palm Springs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1999

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Sivertson, Howard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Superior Port Cities 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.49 SIV

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