No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes.

New York, NY Paragon House, 1990. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of rubbing; else flawless. Binding square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 559pp.Trade Paperback. In 1970 a giant earthquake struck Huascaran, in Peru, killing 75,000 people in the villages below. In 1970, a huge earthquake in the Peruvian Andes dislodged a mass of ice and rubble that careened down the mountainside, scouring out the contents of the valley below. The greatest recorded natural disaster of the Western hemisphere, it claimed 75,000 lives. At the scene the following year, anthropologist Bode studied the effects of the disaster--how the victims survived; how they coped or didn't cope with loss of family and homes; the rifts in the Church; and the breakdown of social classes in the aftermath. Her follow-up ten years later documents the healing that took place, how long it took, and what accommodations to reality the survivors made trying to tease meaning or purpose from their survival. An absorbing, moving account of this Andean tragedy.