Cradle of gold: the story of Hiram Bingham, a real-life Indiana Jones, and the search for Machu Picchu

The first-ever account of adventurer Hiram Bingham's search for the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Bingham's dispatches cast him as a romanticized hero andrevealed the lost city to the Western world. The reader is taken into the heart of Peru's past to relive the story of the Incas, and the exhilarating recovery of their final cities. CHRISTOPHER HEANEY journalist who has written for The New Republic and TheNew York Times. A graduate of Yale University, USA, Heaney is currently a doctoral candidate in Latin American History at the University of Texas, Austin. He worked as a journalist in Peru for a year on a Fulbright fellowship. INDICE: Map - Preface: Beneath the Hat - The Last City of the Incas: the Sixteenth-Century Conquest - PART I: THE EXPLORER - The Black Temple - Ivory Tower - The Compass - The George Washington of the Andes/Into the Andes - The Navel of the World - Choqquequirau, The Cradle of Gold - Manco Inca - PART II: THE SEARCH - Best Laid Plans - Dead Man's Gulch - The Discoverers of Machu Picchu - Yurak Rumi/The White Temple - The Plain of Ghosts - Titu Cusi - PART III:THE TREASURE - The Deal - The Resurrectionists - The Debate - The Prize - Tupac Amaru - PART IV: WAR - Between the Poles - Bonesmen - Roads to Ruins - The Trial of Hiram Bingham - Airborne - The Return

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11204-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 06/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés