A Condor Brings the Sun

By Jerry McGahan

According to an Andean native legend, a condor carries the sun each day out of a sacred lake and into the sky. In a feat of storytelling imbued with the wonder of that daily miracle, Jerry McGahan... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871563541
• ISBN13: 9780871563545
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Women as historians

An incredible book for mother's and daughter's to realize we must tell our daughter's not only our own family history so that future generations know where they come from and what they have endured. We also must tell our daughters the history of our country so they can pass on on what really accurs to the next generation, we need historiams for big events but we need mother's and daughter's to tell how these big events affect the common man.

An incredible story!

In this book I found the story of a woman from a place I heard little about, a woman who was of a people I had never heard of, told by and author I had never heard of. All in all I thought this to be a great book! The story of Pilar was exciting and eye opening, to the multiple cultures of Peru, to the injustices against the Runa people, to how people can change and grow and leave there home but still be drawn back. I especially loved the chapters that were stories of Pilar's mothers. I felt that Arnie turned out to be a real jerk towards the end, but Pilar remained the strong sprited woman she was from the beginning.

powerful novel and incredible history lesson

This incredible story of passing the history of a Peruvian tribe through oral histories related through 23 generations of mothers gives rare insight into this Indian tribe. The author has done intensive research into the Peruvian Indians and this book reflects that work. Many of the stories are heart warming and others reflect man's inhumanity to man. It is a compelling story that is an Oprah review away from being a hit.