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A unique Peruvian export

hatever you think of it, guano meant big bucks back in the 1850s, when the waste was most significant export from Peru to Europe. You may be wondering why guano would be an attractive good, put simply the bird by-product was supremely effective as a fertilizer. In the 1840s the Peruvian government negotiated a deal with merchants from Liverpool

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