Lost City Of The Incas
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Lost City Of The Incas
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Author : Hiram Bingham
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-12-16
Lost City Of The Incas written by Hiram Bingham and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were of white granite, exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man. Bingham had not, as it turned out, found Vilcabamba, but he had nevertheless made an astonishing and memorable discovery, which he describes in his bestselling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS.
Lost City
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Author : Ted Lewin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003-06-02
Lost City written by Ted Lewin and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Caldecott Honor-winner Ted Lewin takes readers on a thrilling journey to the wilds of Peru in this story of Hiram Bingham, who, in 1911, carved a treacherous path through snake-filled jungles and across perilous mountains in search of Vilcapampa, the lost city of the Incas. Guided the last steps by a young Quechua boy, however, he discovered not the rumored lost city, but the ruins of Machu Picchu, a city totally unknown to the outside world, and one of the wonders of the world.
Turn Right At Machu Picchu
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Author : Mark Adams
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Turn Right At Machu Picchu written by Mark Adams and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Travel categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the truth—except he’d written about adventure far more than he’d actually lived it. In fact, he’d never even slept in a tent. Turn Right at Machu Picchu is Adams’ fascinating and funny account of his journey through some of the world’s most majestic, historic, and remote landscapes guided only by a hard-as-nails Australian survivalist and one nagging question: Just what was Machu Picchu?
Lost City Of The Inca
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Author : David Meissner
language : en
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
Release Date : 2004
Lost City Of The Inca written by David Meissner and has been published by Benchmark Education Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Children's plays categories.
Deep in the jungle of Peru, a great American explorer finds a lost city from an ancient empire.
Lost City Of The Incas
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Author : Hiram Bingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Lost City Of The Incas written by Hiram Bingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Incas categories.
Lost City Of The Incas
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Author : Hiram Bingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Lost City Of The Incas written by Hiram Bingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Incas categories.
The Last Days Of The Incas
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Author : Kim MacQuarrie
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Last Days Of The Incas written by Kim MacQuarrie and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers. In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed-due largely to their horses, their steel armour and swords, and their tactic of surprise. They captured and imprisoned Atahualpa. Although the Inca emperor paid an enormous ransom in gold, the Spaniards executed him anyway. The following year, the Spaniards seized the Inca capital of Cuzco, completing their conquest of the largest native empire the New World has ever known. Peru was now a Spanish colony, and the conquistadors were wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. But the Incas did not submit willingly. A young Inca emperor, the brother of Atahualpa, soon led a massive rebellion against the Spaniards, inflicting heavy casualties and nearly wiping out the conquerors. Eventually, however, Pizarro and his men forced the emperor to abandon the Andes and flee to the Amazon. There, he established a hidden capital, called Vilcabamba-only recently rediscovered by a trio of colorful American explorers. Although the Incas fought a deadly, thirty-six-year-long guerrilla war, the Spanish ultimately captured the last Inca emperor and vanquished the native resistance.
The White Rock
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Author : Hugh Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-12-30
The White Rock written by Hugh Thomson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-30 with Travel categories.
One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland. The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered over thousands of miles of still largely uncharted territory, particularly in the Eastern Andes, where the mountains fall away towards the Amazon. Twenty-five years ago, Hugh Thomson set off into the cloud-forest on foot to find a ruin that had been carelessly lost again after its initial discovery. Into his history of the Inca Empire he weaves the story of his adventures as he travelled to the most remote Inca cities. It is also the story of the great explorers in whose footsteps he followed, such as Hiram Bingham and Gene Savoy.
Cradle Of Gold
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Author : Christopher Heaney
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Cradle Of Gold written by Christopher Heaney and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the Incas' greatest achievement. Tall, handsome, and sure of his destiny, Bingham believed that Machu Picchu was the Incas' final refuge, where they fled the Spanish Conquistadors. Bingham made Machu Picchu famous, and his dispatches from the jungle cast him as the swashbuckling hero romanticized today as a true Indiana Jones-like character. But his excavation of the site raised old specters of conquest and plunder, and met with an indigenous nationalism that changed the course of Peruvian history. Though Bingham successfully realized his dream of bringing Machu Picchu's treasure of skulls, bones and artifacts back to the United States, conflict between Yale and Peru persists through the present day over a simple question: Who owns Inca history? In this grand, sweeping narrative, Christopher Heaney takes the reader into the heart of Peru's past to relive the dramatic story of the final years of the Incan empire, the exhilarating recovery of their final cities and the thought-provoking fight over their future. Drawing on original research in untapped archives, Heaney vividly portrays both a stunning landscape and the complex history of a fascinating region that continues to inspire awe and controversy today.
Inca Land
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Author : Hiram Bingham
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-08-26
Inca Land written by Hiram Bingham and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-26 with categories.
"The builders were not in search of fields. There is so little arable land here that every square yard of earth had to be terraced in order to provide food for the inhabitants. They were not looking for comfort or convenience. Safety was their primary consideration. They were sufficiently civilized to practice intensive agriculture, sufficiently skillful to equal the best masonry the world has ever seen, sufficiently ingenious to make delicate bronzes, and sufficiently advanced in art to realize the beauty of simplicity. What could have induced such a people to select this remote fastness of the Andes, with all its disadvantages, as the site for their capital, unless they were fleeing from powerful enemies."