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 | Insight Guides Peru (Insight Guides)
By: Apa Publications Price: $ 22.95 $ 7.90 Reviews: 10 Average Rating: 4.5
One of over 400 titles in the Insight series, Insight Guide Peru. This 358-page book includes a section detailing Perus history, 9 features covering the countrys life and culture, ranging from the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes to the fusion of Catholic, Inca and early agricultural rites, a region by region visitors guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many exciting photographs and 10 maps. |
|  | The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (Revised Edition)
By: Thames & Hudson Price: $ 33.95 $ 9.25 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 Incas (Peoples of America)
By: Wiley-blackwell Price: $ 26.95 $ 20.87 Reviews: 7 Average Rating: 4.5
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 Rivers Ran East: Travelers Tales Classics
By: Travelers Tales Price: $ 16.95 $ 11.28 Reviews: 26 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. Against the odds,... |
|  | The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland
By: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Price: $264.00 $ 17.99 Reviews: 17 Average Rating: 4.0
The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Columbian 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 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. This was his introduction to the curious and confusing world of Inca archaeology. He has... |
|  | A Sacred Landscape: The Search for Ancient Peru
By: Overlook Hardcover Price: $ 27.95 $ 3.50 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 5.0
Hugh Thompson has made a career exploring the mysterious pre-Columbian cultures of ancient Peru, providing unforgettable accounts of South Americas most strange--but enduring--culture. In A Sacred Landscape, he takes us from the great Moche pyramids to remote sites in the Central highlands that date back to the first millennium BCE--ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in mystery.He elegantly interweaves his account of the rise, decline, and fall of pre-Inca civilization with the story of his familys... |
|  | The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged
By: Hackett Publishing Company Price: $ 16.95 $ 15.24
This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermores classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilasos historical narrative. Karen Spaldings new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts. |
|  | The Incas: People of the Sun
By: Harry N. Abrams Price: $ 12.95 $ 5.18 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 5.0
A narrative history of the great Inca Empire of Peru describes the daily life, innovative agricultural techniques, architectural wonders, metalworking skills, and religious practices of the Incas, as well as the devastating impact of European colonization. Original. |
|  | Machu Picchu: A Civil Engineering Marvel
By: American Society Of Civil Engineers Price: $ 52.00 $ 46.79 Reviews: 13 Average Rating: 5.0
"Machu Picchu: A Civil Engineering Marvel" takes readers inside the Lost City of the Incas for a groundbreaking perspective never before seen by tourists or archeologists. Built high in the Andes on a seemingly impossible site, Machu Picchu stands as a testament to Early Native Americans and their ability to plan and build. How was it possible to create a mountain-top city complete with running water, drainage systems, food production, and stone structures so advanced they have endured for over 500 years? Authors Kenneth R. Wright and Alfredo... |
|  | History of the Incas (Works Issued By the Hakluyt Society, 2nd Ser., No. 22.)
By: Dover Publications Price: $ 19.95 $ 6.00 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 3.0
Primary source of information on pre-Conquest Incan history, traditions and chronology gives full details of ceremonies, festivals, and religious beliefs and provides detailed accounts of the origin of the Incas, ancient systems of land division, early settlements, biographical sketches, arrival of the Spaniards, execution of the last emperor, much more. 2 maps. Bibliography. |
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