Investigating Machu Picchu

Author : Emily Sohn
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429634073
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigating Machu Picchu written by Emily Sohn and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore history without the confines of time or distance. Dr. Isabel Soto is an archaeologist and world explorer with the skills to go wherever and whenever she needs to research history, solve a mystery, or rescue colleagues in trouble. Readers join Izzy on her journeys and gain knowledge about historical places, eras, and cultures on the way.

Author : Emily Sohn
Publisher : Graphic Library
ISBN 13 : 9781429638951
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigating Machu Picchu: An Isabel Soto Archaeology Adventure written by Emily Sohn and published by Graphic Library. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore history without the confines of time or distance. Dr. Isabel Soto is an archaeologist and world explorer with the skills to go wherever and whenever she needs to to research history, solve a mystery, or rescue colleagues in trouble. Readers join Izzy on her journeys and gain knowledge about historical places, eras, and cultures on the way.

Author : Mark Adams
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101535407
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn Right at Machu Picchu written by Mark Adams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Barry Brukoff
Publisher : Bulfinch
ISBN 13 : 9780821227046
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machu Picchu written by Barry Brukoff and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Web site contains all types of general information about the history and discovery of Machu Picchu with photographs of that time period. In Spanish.

Author : Richard L. Burger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300097638
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machu Picchu written by Richard L. Burger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the status of contemporary research on Incan civilization, and addresses mysteries of the founding and abandonment of Machu Picchu, charting its archaeological history from 1911 to the present.

Author : Suzanne Garbe
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515730352
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Machu Picchu written by Suzanne Garbe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soar into the mountains of Peru to discover the archeological wonder of the abandoned city of Machu Picchu. Why did the Incas leave the site? And what was it used for? Travel along with scientists to find out how their discoveries shed light on the mysteries surrounding the Lost City of the Incas. Unlocking the secrets of the past is just an artifact away!

Author : Mariusz Ziółkowski
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030927660
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machu Picchu in Context written by Mariusz Ziółkowski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at integrating archaeology with science in order to provide additional information with respect to a traditional archaeological anthropological perspective. It sheds light on Incan culture, the relation between human frequentation and environmental changes, the Incan architecture in relation with Andean cosmovision using, for the first time, diverse technological and scientific approaches including LiDAR remote sensing, geophysics and radio carbon dating. A number of recent studies conducted by Polish, Italian and Peruvian scientific missions in Machu Picchu, Chachabamba and Cusco are presented and discussed. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Neil B. Chambers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230112048
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cradle of Gold written by Neil B. Chambers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Heaney takes the reader into the heart of Peru's past to relive the dramatic story of the final years of the Incan empire, the recovery of their final cities and the fight over their future. Drawing on original research in untapped archives, Heaney portrays both a stunning landscape and the complex history of a region that continues to inspire awe and controversy today. --from publisher description

Author : Carol Cumes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567181869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to Machu Picchu written by Carol Cumes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are invited to enter the shamanic world of Andean healers and herbalists and connect with Andean power animals as co-author Carol Cumes describes her personal spiritual journey into the mystic Andes mountains. 32 pages of color photos. December '98 publication date.

Author : Mark Rice
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469643545
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Machu Picchu written by Mark Rice and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the "lost city" of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu "is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering." Millions of travelers have since followed Bingham's advice. When Bingham first encountered Machu Picchu, the site was an obscure ruin. Now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Machu Picchu is the focus of Peru's tourism economy. Mark Rice's history of Machu Picchu in the twentieth century—from its "discovery" to today's travel boom—reveals how Machu Picchu was transformed into both a global travel destination and a powerful symbol of the Peruvian nation. Rice shows how the growth of tourism at Machu Picchu swayed Peruvian leaders to celebrate Andean culture as compatible with their vision of a modernizing nation. Encompassing debates about nationalism, Indigenous peoples' experiences, and cultural policy—as well as development and globalization—the book explores the contradictions and ironies of Machu Picchu's transformation. On a broader level, it calls attention to the importance of tourism in the creation of national identity in Peru and Latin America as a whole.