Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in South America, bordering Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil to the east, Bolivia to the southeast, Chile to the south and the Pacific Ocean on the west.Fransesco Pizarro founded Peru

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• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
  • Horace Walpole, English art historian, writer, antiquarian and politician in a letter to Sir Horace Mann (1774-11-24).

• Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
  • Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World (1981), trans. Helen R. Lane (Penguin, 1997, ISBN 0-140-26260-1), p. 54

• How captivating is a Peruvian lady swinging in her gaily-woven hammock of grass, extended between two orange-trees, and inhaling the fragrance of a choice cigarro!
  • Herman Melville, "Typee" (1846), (Barnes and Noble, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7607-9021-2), p. 86

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• I would not change my native land, for rich Peru with all her gold.
  • Isaac Watts, English Nonconformist.

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