Download or read book Inca Footprints written by Brien Foerster and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inca Footprints: I wrote this book as the result of not finding anything similar to it in Cusco, or anywhere. Cusco and the Sacred Valley are full of ancient megalithic stone remains and structures, many of which are far older than the Inca, and this fact is not explained, and in fact not known by many of the guides and tour companies there. This book is the result of 5 years of on the ground research by me, Brien Foerster, and contains so many photos, that the book acts as a virtual tour of the whole area.
Download or read book Inca Footprints written by Brien Foerster and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book after 5 years of research living in Cusco and the Sacred Valley. It covers all of the important Inca sites, as well as those that are far older than the Inca, but are attributed to them by most academics. It is a virtual guide of sorts; there are so many photos in it that the reader need never physically visit the sites, and if you do, will find them easily. There is much more to Cusco than Machu Picchu, which is also described thoroughly here.
Download or read book Footprint Cuzco and the Inca Heartland written by Ben Box and published by Footprint Handbooks. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel guide to Cuzco and the Inca heartland that provides information on the region's trails, historical landmarks, popular attractions, activities, hotels, restaurants, shops, and festivals.
Download or read book Cuzco the Inca Heartland written by Ben Box and published by Footprint Handbooks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuzco, ancient capital of the Incas, Footprint's acclaimed guide to the region, now in its 3rd edition, helps you get the most out of this fascinating corner of Peru, with insights into Inca culture and details of how to reach all the best ruins. The fully-updated new edition keeps you up-to-date with Cuzco's ever-changing nightlife, as well as including essential information on whitewater rafting, mountain biking and climbing, and full descriptions of "new" trels, allowing the more adventurous and conservation minded travellers to take the pressure off the famous Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Full-colour maps to help you get around, includes coverage of capital city, Lima, and the southeastern jungle, where to find the best tours to Manu and Tambopata jungle reserves,detailed background section giving you everything you ever wanted to know about the Incas. Extensive hotel, restaurant and nightlife listings and full festival and events guide.
Download or read book Daily Life in the Inca Empire written by Michael A. Malpass and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore daily living inside the Inca empire, the largest empire in the western hemisphere before European colonization. The Incas' subjugation of all types of cultures in western South America led to a wide variety of experiences, from military leaders to ruling class to conquered peoples. Readers will uncover all aspects of Inca culture, including politics and social hierarchy, the life cycle, agriculture, architecture, women's roles, dress and ornamentation, food and drink, festivals, religious rituals, the calendar, and the unique Inca form of taxation. Utilizing the best of current research and excavation, the second edition includes new material throughout as well as a new chapter on Machu Picchu, and a day in the life section focusing on an Inca family and a servant family in Machu Picchu. Concluding chapters discuss Inca contributions to modern society and the dangers of present destruction of archaeological sites.
Download or read book Footprint Cusco the Inca Trail written by Ben Box & Steve Frankham and published by Footprint Travel Guides. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Footprint Peru written by Ben Box and published by Footprint Handbooks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andean adventure capital. The best sights. Inca roads and mountain trails. Where to eat, drink and sleep. How to discover your own lost city. The world's deepest canyon, highest lake and the most bio-diverse jungle. The ultimate adrenaline rush. Where to find the best festivals. Guinea pig on the menu, a whale in the desert and condors at nine o'clock.
Download or read book The White Rock written by Hugh Thomson and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explorer searches the Peruvian Andes for a lost ruin in “a gem of a book [that] transcends the travel writing genre” with fascinating Inca history (Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book With the backdrop of the ever-intriguing Andes mountains, Hugh Thomson explores the intoxicating history of the Inca people and their heartland. 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, Martín Chambi; the poet Pablo Neruda; and the Spanish conquistadores who destroyed the Inca civilization—and the eccentric characters he meets on his travels. Following in the footsteps of the explorers Gene Savoy and Hiram Bingham, Thomson set off into the jungle to find the lost city of Llactapat. This is the story of his journey to discover it via the interconnecting paths the Incas laid across the Andes.
Download or read book Through the Eyes of the Condor written by Robert B. Haas and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to the enormously successful "Through the Eyes of the Gods," this gorgeous new volume takes readers soaring above Latin America for a birds-eye view of magical, unreachable lands and exotic wildlife. 120 color photographs.
Download or read book Inca Origins written by Graeme R. Kearsley and published by Yelsraek Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first section of this work is a general review of some of the researches undertaken by the first Europeans who entered the Pacific and who readily perceived the contacts and cultural connections between Asia and Australia, South America and even Africa. The central chapters review the archaeology and associated references in South America with parallels included where appropriate from Asia and more usually with the Ancient Middle East. This section concentrates more on the Inca Origin myths as well as the many references in myth and legend showing that there must have been mariner contacts between Asia and South America probably over 5000 years before the arrival of the Europeans. The middle to last chapters deal with the many parallel cultural aspects that are reflected in the Near Middle East that are most likely the result of this cross-Pacific transfer through Oceania to South America that appear in the available archaeological and iconographical record as well as the evidence preserved in the local oral traditions in myths and legends where applicable.
Download or read book Lost Ancient Technology Of Peru And Bolivia written by Brien Foerster and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Peru and Bolivia, like Egypt, contain enigmas and mysteries, especially in stone which most conventional scholarship can`t explain. Rather than simply being the exclusively the works of cultures such as the Inca, there are many megalithic wonders which defy both the conventional time lines and known levels of technology attributed to the ancient people of South America. The most glaring example is most likely Puma Punku, near the shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, which hints at not only being several thousand years old, but also seems to have been achieved using what we would call high level machine technology. There are also many sites in Peru, and especially near the city of Cusco that also show the hall marks of having been made by cultures using technology supposedly not known by cultures such as the Inca. A massive collection of photographic and and detailed analysis is contained in this book, as well as on site observations by leading engineers.
Download or read book Jungle Paths and Inca Ruins written by William Montgomery McGovern and published by New York, Grosset & Dunlap by arrangement with The Century Company [1927]. This book was released on 1927 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the expedition -- The gateway to the Amazon -- Manaos, the pearl of the jungle -- The river of vanished glory -- In the pioneer country -- Beyond the last outpost of civilization -- Life among the Indians -- A feast of welcome -- Snakes - and Indian costumes -- Conference - and a peace pipe -- A jungle king -- The Beast Men of the jungle -- Initiation into the holy of holies -- Into hostile territory -- Vampire bats -- Hunting with poisoned arrows -- Wives, slaves, and kings -- The pageant of the demons and of sex -- Cannibalistic orgies -- Danger from beast and man -- The march through the jungle -- The land of naked women -- A meeting with outlaws -- The mysteries of birth and death -- Da Silva makes the supreme sacrifice -- The return to civilization -- To the head-waters of the Amazon -- Scaling the Andes -- Over the passage to the City of the Kings -- In the highlands where the Incas held sway -- The capital of the Sons of the Sun -- The pageant of history told in stone -- The origin of the Incas -- The city of our lady of peace -- A center of Pre-Inca civilization -- A brush with Chileans and with ladies of ill fame -- Grave-snatching amid Inca and pre-Inca ruins -- Wherein a buried city comes to light.
Download or read book Chile Footprint Handbook written by Janak Jani and published by Footprint Travel Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel & holiday guides.
Download or read book Inca Gods and Aliens written by Bruce Noon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the Inca have superhuman powers? Stories that Jesus Ruiz heard about his ancestors were just that, until he made a discovery that changed everything. His studies while attending the University of Arizona led him to ancient documents. We learn about shaman, ancient messages in weavings, quipu and our DNA. We learn how to talk to the gods. A beautiful library student working on her PhD covertly helps Jesus and later their paths merge while searching for records created by scribes during the Inca conquest. Their study leads to the Archives of the Indies in Spain, the Vatican, gods of human creation, ancient aliens, and beyond. The god Sach’amama leads them to hidden artifacts and Jesus embarks on an exciting quest for clues that transport him back to the beginning where he uncovers ancient hidden truths about the Incas and their supernatural powers. He and his new friends set out on an eye-opening journey through history, fantasy and time using the powerful secret keys of his homeland to defeat an evil threat. Long ago the gods gave people superhuman powers. When it is time, they will give those who earn it, the knowledge and understanding that will allow them to survive it’s use.
Download or read book Lost City of the Incas written by Hiram Bingham and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book History of the Inca Empire written by Father Bernabe Cobo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
