[PDF] The Lost History Of The Incas eBook

Author : Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521637596

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History of the Inca Realm, by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, is a classic work of ethnohistorical research which has been both influential and provocative in the field of Andean prehistory. Rostworowski uses a great variety of published and unpublished documents and secondary works by Latin American, North American, and European scholars in fields including history, ethnology, archaeology, and ecology, to examine topics such as the mythical origins of the Incas, the expansion of the Inca state, the organization of Inca society, including the political role of women, the vast trading networks of the coastal merchants, and the causes of the disintegration of the Inca state in the face of a small force of Spaniards. At each step, Dr Rostworowski presents her own views, clearly and forcefully, along with those of other scholars, providing her readers with varied evidence from which to draw their own conclusions.

Author : Kevin Lane
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1789145465

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Kevin Lane skilfully integrates the Inca historical narrative (from chroniclers' accounts and archaeology) with details of local languages, gender relations and everyday life to retell the fascinating story of South America's largest empire.

Author : Kim MacQuarrie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0743260503

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Documents the epic conquest of the Inca Empire as well as the decades-long insurgency waged by the Incas against the Conquistadors, in a narrative history that is partially drawn from the storytelling traditions of the Peruvian Amazon Yora people. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 030904264X

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This fascinating, readable volume is filled with enticing, detailed information about more than 30 different Incan crops that promise to follow the potato's lead and become important contributors to the world's food supply. Some of these overlooked foods offer special advantages for developing nations, such as high nutritional quality and excellent yields. Many are adaptable to areas of the United States. Lost Crops of the Incas includes vivid color photographs of many of the crops and describes the authors' experiences in growing, tasting, and preparing them in different ways. This book is for the gourmet and gourmand alike, as well as gardeners, botanists, farmers, and agricultural specialists in developing countries.

Author : Father Bernabe Cobo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0292789807

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The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on the history of the kingdom of Peru. The volume includes a general account of the aspect, character, and dress of the Indians as well as a superb treatise on the Incas—their legends, history, and social institutions.

Author : Mark Adams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1101535407

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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?

Author : Tim Wood
Publisher : Viking Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Incas
ISBN : 9780670870370

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Peel back four see-through pages to discover the life in the Inca empire.

Author : Hiram Bingham
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0297865331

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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.

Author : Federico Kauffmann Doig
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :

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Catalouge of an exhibition presented by WONDERS at the Florida International Museum