Books by Peter Lourie and Complete Book Reviews

Sweat of the Sun
Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon: A Chronicle of an Incan Treasure
Peter Lourie, Author Atheneum Books $19.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-689-12111-1
The lost treasure of Atahualpa, the Inca king murdered by Pizarro in 1534, continues to lure gold hunters to the distant, almost impassable mountains of Ecuador, where, legend says, it is hidden. Lourie, a graduate student in anthropology, succumbed
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Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush
Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush
Peter Lourie, illus. by Wendell Minor. Holt/Ottaviano, $18.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9757-3
Lourie (The Polar Bear Scientists) delivers a vivid account of Jack London’s arduous trek, along with thousands of other Stampeders, to the heart of Canada’s Yukon Territory in 1897 in search of gold. London returned not with wealth but with the raw
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Amazon: A Young Reader's Look at the Last Frontier
Amazon: A Young Reader's Look at the Last Frontier
Peter Lourie, Author, Marcos Santilli, Photographer Boyds Mills Press $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-878093-00-4
Ecology-minded youngsters have reason to cheer of late, with the increasing number of titles (such as this one) that examine various endangered habitats of the earth. Loosely structured as a travelogue, this first-person account describes the author'
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