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The White Rock : an exploration of the Inca heartland / Hugh Thomson.
LIBRA - Special F3429 .T28 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, Hugh.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomson, Hugh--Travel--Peru--Cuzco (Province).
- Thomson, Hugh.
- Travel.
- Incas.
- Antiquities.
- Inca architecture.
- History.
- Peru.
- Peru--Cuzco (Province).
- Incas--Peru--Cuzco (Province)--History.
- Inca architecture--Peru--Cuzco (Province).
- Incas--Peru--Cuzco (Province)--Antiquities.
- Cuzco (Peru : Province)--Antiquities.
- Cuzco (Peru : Province).
- Vilcabamba Mountains (Peru)--Discovery and exploration.
- Vilcabamba Mountains (Peru).
- Vilcabamba Mountains (Peru)--Antiquities.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Incas--Antiquities.
- Peru--Vilcabamba Mountains.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 1, 316 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- With the backdrop of the ever-intriguing Andes mountains, The White Rock, Hugh Thomson's intoxicating history of the Inca people and their heartland, is a thrilling mix of information and adventure. The author, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and explorer, expertly weaves accounts of his own discoveries and brushes with danger with the history of those who preceded him--including the explorer Hiram Bingham, who discovered Machu Picchu; the twentieth century South American photographer, Martin Chambi; the poet Pablo Neruda; and the Spanish conquistadores who destroyed the Inca civilization--and the eccentric characters he meets on his travels.
- Contents:
- A New world
- Inca roads
- Choquequirao : cradle of gold
- Machu Picchu and its bones
- To Bolivia and Collasuyo
- To Ecuador and Chinchasuyo
- Ollantaytambo
- The White Rock
- Return to Cuzco
- Adentro (Within)
- The Last city of the Incas
- Inca genealogy
- Chronology of the Inca empire and Spanish conquest
- Chronology of the exploration of the Vilcabamba.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1585675032
- 9781585675036
- OCLC:
- 54741542
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