The Ship, the Lady and the Lake; The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Steamship in the Andes

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781903071427
• ISBN10: 1903071429
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2012-07-01
• Publisher: Bene Factum Publishing

Summary

An extraordinary account of one woman's single-minded campaign to restore a Victorian steamship to her former glory and make her an Andean attraction Here is a vivid account of Meriel Larken's incredible quest to restore the Yavaristeamship against the oddsa ship that is now celebrating its 150 year anniversary in 2012. In 1862 the English-built Yavariwas taken to bits and shipped to South America. In an epic logistical feat it was carried in thousands of pieces, by mule, up the Andes to Lake Titicaca, 12,500 feet above sea level, the world's highest navigable waterway. She was reconstructed and for more than a century plied her trade up and down the lake, but by 1985 she was a sad rotting hulkuntil she was found by Larken, who led the quest to project to restore and preserve the ship. The oldest single screw iron passenger ship in the world, this nautical and engineering jewel is now a major Peruvian tourist attraction.

Author Biography

Meriel Larken is director and founder of the Yavari Project and holder of the Orden al Merito for services to numerous social projects through The Anglo-Peruvian Society, of which she is the former chairperson. She is the former administrator of the Cusichaca Archaeological Project near Machu Picchu, and founding chairperson of the Anglo-­Latin American Foundation.

Table of Contents

Author's Notes	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Prologue	p. xiii
My Introduction to Peru	p. 1
Getting to Know Peru	p. 17
First Sighting the Yavarí	p. 25
Establishing the YavaríÆs True Value	p. 34
Trying to Buy the Yavarí	p. 45
Fundraising at Home and Away	p. 59
Creating La Asociación Yavarí and Buying the Yavarí	p. 79
Willingly Distracted Around Lima	p. 88
Registering the The Yavari Project	p. 100
The Origins of the Yavarí	p. 102
Captain Carlos Settles in and the Inauguration of the Yavarí Museum	p. 124
The Yavarí's Epic Journey to Lake Titicaca	p. 138
Searching for the Footsteps of the Yavarí	p. 166
On the Altiplano	p. 181
Sailing, Slipping and Going Aground Drill!	p. 191
Changes All Round	p. 208
Casting Off	p. 216
Reference Notes	p. 228
Bibliography	p. 230
Acknowledgements	p. 232
Index	p. 238
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