Mask of the Andes by Jon Cleary

Mask of the Andes

by Jon Cleary

Collins, 1971, ISBN 0002217309, hardcover, dust-jacket

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing to edges and corners, slight lean, ex-library with sticker and tape residue to end-papers, faint tape residue to covers and spine, some foxing like marks to some pages, dust-jacket shows some edge and shelf wear with rubbing, chipping, small tears and creasing (see photographs)

"In a remote village of the Andes, McKenna, an American priest, is trying to win the confidence of his bitterly poor Indian parishioner who for centuries have known nothing but cruelty and exploitation.  His enlightened liberalism makes him as suspect to his flock as to his superiors.  And his friendship with the Englishman Taber, a free-speaking, free thinking F.A.O agronomist who has come to teach peasants how to improve their pathetic agriculture aggravates a situation already tense enough."

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