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 | Birds of Peru (Princeton Field Guides)
By: Princeton University Press Price: $ 49.50 $ 31.04 Reviews: 12 Average Rating: 4.5
Nearly eighteen hundred different bird species--one fifth of the worlds birds--have been recorded in Peru. Birds of Peru is the most complete and well-researched field guide to this rich and fascinating diversity. It illustrates every one of the 1,792 species and shows the distinct plumages of each. It includes 304 superb, high-quality color plates directly opposite concise descriptions and color distribution maps, making it much easier to use in the field than standard neotropical field guides. The detailed text discusses key... |
|  | The Last Days of the Incas
By: Simon & Schuster Price: $ 30.00 $ 12.89 Reviews: 21 Average Rating: 5.0
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 armor and... |
|  | The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 25.95 $ 15.00 Reviews: 5 Average Rating: 4.5
Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The early-twentieth-century American adventurer Hiram Bingham told of the raging rivers and the wild jungles he traversed on his way to rediscovering the “Lost City of the Incas,” Machu Picchu. Seventy years later, news crews from ABC and CBS traveled to Peru to report on merciless... |
|  | Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press)
By: Phoenix Price: $ 12.95 $ 10.36 Reviews: 7 Average Rating: 3.5
A special illustrated edition of Hiram Binghams classic work captures all the magnificence and mystery of the amazing archeological sites he uncovered. Early in the 20th century, Bingham ventured into the wild and then unknown country of the Eastern Peruvian Andes--and in 1911 came upon the fabulous Inca city that made him famous: Machu Picchu. In the space of one short season he went on to discover two more lost cities, including Vitcos, where the last Incan Emperor was assassinated. |
|  | Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru
By: Council Oak Books Price: $ 17.95 $ 10.91 Reviews: 7 Average Rating: 4.5
It is an extraordinary time to be alive, as a long-foretold alignment of the Earth with the axis of the Milky Way galaxy announces a new dawn. In Peru, descendants of the Inca call this time the Pachakuti, the return of the light after 500 years of darkness. Peru is said to be the "morning of the new sun" - the portal through which rays of the new light will begin to awaken humanity to a new consciousness.In this illustrated guidebook, Perus premiere spiritual tour guide, Jorge Delgado, takes the reader on a trip of discovery through the... |
|  | The Angry Aztecs and the Incredible Incas (Horrible Histories Collections)
By: Scholastic Price: $ 13.85 $ 8.22 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 5.0
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|  | The Incas (Peoples of America)
By: Wiley-blackwell Price: $ 17.95 Reviews: 6 Average Rating: 5.0
The great empire of the Incas at its height encompassed an area of western South America comparable in size to the Roman Empire in Europe. This book describes and explains its extraordinary progress from a remote Andean settlement near Lake Titicaca to its rapid demise six centuries later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors.A bold new history by the worlds leading expert on Incan civilization. Covers the entire Andean region, five countries and ten million people. Heavily illustrated with maps, figures, and... |
|  | The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (Revised Edition)
By: Thames & Hudson Price: $ 33.95 $ 10.19 Reviews: 6 Average Rating: 4.5
In 1532, when Pizarro conquered Peru, the Inca realm was one of the largest empires on earth, graced by gold masterpieces, towns with great palaces and temples, and an impressive network of roads. But this glittering culture only obscured the rich and diverse civilizations that had preceded it: Chavin, Moche, Nazca, Tiwanaku, Huari, and Chimú. Described as a "masterly study" and an "outstanding volume" on its first publication, The Incas and Their Ancestors quickly established itself as the best general introduction to the cultures and... |
|  | The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru
By: Penguin (non-classics) Price: $ 16.00 $ 8.85 Reviews: 5 Average Rating: 4.5
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|  | The Rivers Ran East: Travelers Tales Classics
By: Travelers Tales Price: $ 16.95 $ 10.81 Reviews: 24 Average Rating: 4.5
Long out of print, this is a riveting firsthand account of Leonard Clark’s search for the legendary lost Seven Cities of Cibola — reputedly home to enormous reserves of gold — in the rain forest east of the Peruvian Andes. A former U.S. Army intelligence officer, Clark is joined on his expedition by Inez Pokorny, a gutsy, multilingual female explorer. Their treacherous journey includes encounters with head-hunting Jivaro Indians, man-eating jaguars, 40-foot-long anacondas, poisonous plants, and shamanistic healers.... |
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