Lonely Planet Quechua: Phrasebook

Lonely Planet Phrasebooks

by Ronald Wright

Legs aching and feeling ravenous from the trek, you wonder if you'll be pitching your "karpa" for one more night. Suddenly the truck stops and it's clear that "Iawa" and "kuka mati" are on the cards. "Anaychayki" you say gratefully with a full belly, and that's when your dinner host offers you a bed for the night...You realize it's true - a few Quechua words can work wonders!
Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.

Genres: Language

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Ronald Wright is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and the New York Times.