This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
325 letters my father wrote to my mother during his time in World War II.
Woven together in a timeline of events of three of his brothers, 5 brothers-in-law, and one cousin, all 10 of them were in WWII at the same time.
Kim MacQuarrie is perhaps the only American author to have been chased up a tree by a grizzly bear, to have lived with a recently-contacted tribe in the Amazon, and to have won four national Emmys. He writes non-fiction historical and travel narratives that bring history and travel--such as the conquest of the Inca Empire or the capture of Che Guevara in the Andes Mountains--to life.
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Kim MacQuarrie is a writer, a four-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and an anthropologist. He is the author of four books on Peru and living in that country for five years. During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently-contacted tribe of indigenous Amazonians, called the Yora. 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 his book, "The Last Days of the Incas." Currently, FX Channel is developing the book into a 13-part dramatic series.
MacQuarrie's latest book, "Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries," is about a 4-300 mile journey along the Andes Mountains, the longest mountain chain in the world. 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. Visit his website at www.kimmacquarrie.com
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Los Angeles, CA USA
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A four-time national Emmy winner. MacQuarrie's previous book, "The Last Days of the Incas" was selected by the Kiriyama Prize Committee as a "notable book" and as an "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice. It is currently in development at the FX Channel to be made into a 13-part dramatic series.
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