Judy Blankenship: 2 books
Cañar
A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make...
Our House in the Clouds
Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous...