On the Other Side of Town

I Made It!

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September 5th 2005
A day before leaving Seattle for Lima, I stopped at Magus Used Bookstore and picked up a volume titled "An Area of Darkness" by Nobel Prize Winner U.S. Naipaul. The author, a Trinidad-born Indian now living in London, recounts his first trip back to India, where he was, in a sense, assulted by the sounds, smells, and attitudes he enountered there. As I follow Naipaul´s journey into places both ... read more

South America » Peru » Lima

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more