Accidental Journalist. 20 years in Peru

Sally Bowen the respected British journalist, is back with a book that combines her personal experiences with a clear and incisive vision of Peruvian reality. On one front, Bowen tells the fascinating story of her initiation into hournalism, soon after her arrival in Peru in 1988. Atracted by a Latin America simultaneously real, magicqal and turbulent, she had taken the decision to leave her native England and move to Peru to undertake voluntary work with social projects in Lima's shanty towns... Covering twenty years of social and political history, this book is an invaluable source for anyone who seeks to understand today's Peru.