Buzzards and Bananas: Fragments from my Journals Across South America - Peru, the Amazon, Chile and Bolivia 1977-78 - Softcover

Ayers, George L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1460279123 ISBN 13: 9781460279120

Publisher: FriesenPress, 2016

Synopsis

Join George and Mary Ayers in the late seventies when South America was a little rougher and a little wilder, for an incredible journey through Peru, the Amazon, Chile, and Bolivia. Fusing together details scoured from their personal journals, photos, and letters home, Buzzards and Bananas captures the essence of everything from the mundane and sometimes humorous moments of day-to-day travel to the emotional strains on relationships; from the excitement of a midnight Federales raid on their Amazon riverboat to the desperation and horrors of military rule. Along the way they spend time with remarkable people: an Argentine couple in love fleeing for their lives; a young man in Santiago whispering about the cruelty of government; a desperate American imprisoned in Bolivia and anthropologist Maria Reiche, the guardian of Peru's Nazca desert mystery.
Buzzards and Bananas is more than a simple travelogue. George narrates his journey with enduring enthusiasm and heartfelt honesty bringing alive for us the reality of the times and places through which he travelled in a way seldom seen by those who have visited these South American countries....

About this title

From the Author:

George is kind of a miscellaneous man. His first jobs included painting dots on bees, measuring stream flows on the Moon River and recording weekly radio farm reports before he discovered a career in imaging science. He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Photographic Science and Engineering--the physics, chemistry and optics of photographic systems. After graduation he worked as a research chemist in the Photographic Division of 3M Company in St. Paul Minnesota, taking a one-year sabbatical to teach at the Saint Cloud campus. In 1990 George and his second wife Judy co-founded an Environmental, Health and Workplace Safety consulting firm that eventually grew to be the recognized leader in environmental consulting for North American imaging industries. They sold the business in 2007. Sadly Judy passed away in 2009.
 
In 2012 George published Chasing the Dream, which documents his experiences with Mary as they explored Canada and worked their ways south to Mexico and Central America. Buzzards and Bananas is his second book in an ongoing travelogue series. 

About the Author:

George L. Ayers is an author and lifelong adventurer. George was born in Trail, British Columbia, spent his formative years on the Canadian prairies and grew up in small town Ontario. In the sixties the family moved to Australia, sailing around the globe on the great passenger ships of the day. Those early ocean voyages filled him with an indelible sense of exploration and curiosity that never faded. Since then, he has continued to travel extensively, backpacking across Central and South America and hiking the trail systems of Europe, Asia, and North America. In 2012 he published Chasing the Dream, which documents his experiences with Mary as they explored Canada and worked their ways south to Mexico and Central America. Buzzards and Bananas is his second book in an ongoing travelogue series. He currently resides in Brampton, Ontario, where he spends his time hiking and scribbling in his journal. Befittingly, he is an avid member of the South American Explorers club....

About this edition

• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1460279123
• ISBN 13: 9781460279120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378