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Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham (2002, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSterling Publishing Co., Inc.

ISBN-100297607596

ISBN-139780297607595

eBay Product ID (ePID)2226685

Product Key Features

Book TitleLost City of the Incas

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicArchaeology, Latin America / Pre-Columbian Era, South America / Peru

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Social Science, History

AuthorHiram Bingham

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight40.5 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-483039

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal985/.37019

SynopsisIn 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 ft above the torrent of the Urumbamba 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 discovery which he described in his best-selling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS., A special illustrated edition of Hiram Bingham's classic work captures all the magnificence and mystery of the amazing sites he uncovered. In the earliest days of the 20th century, Bingham ventured into the wild and then unknown country of the Eastern Peruvian Andes. In 1911, he came upon the fabulous Inca city that ultimately made him famous: Machu Picchu. And his achievement did not end there, because in the space of one short season he went on to discover two more lost cities: Vitcos, where the last of the Emperors was assassinated, and another settlement buried deep below the cloud-forest of the jungle., 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 emperor was assassinated.

LC Classification NumberF3429.1.M3B617 2002