Cradle of Gold - The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real Life Indiana Jones, Search for

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Heaney Klappentext Zusammenfassung The first-ever account of adventurer Hiram Bingham's search for the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Bingham's dispatches cast him as a romanticized hero and revealed the lost city to the Western world. The reader is taken into the heart of Peru's past to relive the story of the Incas, and the exhilarating recovery of their final cities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Map * Preface: Beneath the Hat * The Last City of the Incas: the Sixteenth-Century Conquest * THE EXPLORER * The Black Temple * Ivory Tower * The Compass * The George Washington of the Andes/Into the Andes * The Navel of the World * Choqquequirau, The Cradle of Gold * Manco Inca * THE SEARCH * Best Laid Plans * Dead Man's Gulch * The Discoverers of Machu Picchu * Yurak Rumi/The White Temple * The Plain of Ghosts * Titu Cusi * THE TREASURE * The Deal * The Resurrectionists * The Debate * The Prize * Tupac Amaru * WAR * Between the Poles * Bonesmen * Roads to Ruins * The Trial of Hiram Bingham * Airborne * The Return

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christopher Heaney, Heaney Christopher
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.05.2011
• EAN: 9780230112049
• ISBN: 978-0-230-11204-9
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio > Sudamerica