{"product_id":"9781621377764","title":"Flying with El Condor","description":"With an obsession to spend a night alone in Machu Picchu and communicate with Los Dios, a spirited young woman pursues adventure in Peru in 1958. What begins with Carolyn's first teaching job in Lima becomes a ten year commitment working and raising a family in South America during the Cold War years, when Communism was a dangerous threat around the world.\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of humorous vignettes, we follow Carolyn's romances: engagement to a Swede with a motorcycle; then finding Russ, the true love of her life, whom she marries after a three-week courtship and only one date. Together, after hitchhiking through South America and experiencing the realities of the Third World and anti-American propaganda, the couple begins growing up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuss becomes a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Diplomatic Corps on important and dangerous assignments in Venezuela and Brazil. Russ and Carolyn leave the United States during the Happy Days, a time of innocence and optimism, and return home to a different country in the Seventies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach episode in her memoir is a new awareness, an epiphany, a turning point for Carolyn. Throughout ten years living the life of a senora, Carolyn continues her spiritual pursuit, symbolized by El Condor, the great bird who flies between heaven and earth, a messenger and guide to mankind. Her encounters include a Nazi hiding in South America; Olga, a Russian spy; a Macumba priestess and a procession of maids involved in the black arts; Don Pedro, a nudist in hot pursuit; and a Deaconess of the Church, also in hot pursuit - of Russ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is a small piece of history, a nostalgic glimpse of an era when morals were strict, ideals were high, and optimism kept us strong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virtualbookworm.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054699528432,"sku":"9781621377764","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621377764_p0.jpg?v=1763857789","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621377764","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}