Making Machu Picchu

Making Machu Picchu
Author: Mark Rice
Publsiher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781469643540

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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.

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Author: Mark Adams
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781101535400

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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?

Machu Picchu a Citadel of the Incas

Machu Picchu  a Citadel of the Incas
Author: Hiram Bingham
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1979
Genre: Incas
ISBN: IND:39000002197825

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The Machu Picchu Guidebook

The Machu Picchu Guidebook
Author: Ruth M. Wright,Alfredo Valencia Zegarra
Publsiher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1555663273

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"The best all around guide for those who've been or who are going to Machu Picchu . . . . Absolutely indispensable!"--Don Montague, president, South American Explorers. This revised edition includes newly discovered sites and full-color illustrations of real-life scenes from "National Geographic."

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu
Author: Richard L. Burger,C J MacCurdy Professor and Current Chairman of the Council on Archaeological Studies Richard L Burger,Lucy C. Salazar
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300097634

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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.

Where Is Machu Picchu

Where Is Machu Picchu
Author: Megan Stine,Who HQ
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781524788834

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What's left of Machu Picchu stands as the most significant link to the marvelous Inca civilization of Peru. Now readers can explore these ruins in this compelling Where Is? title. Built in the fifteenth century and tucked away in the mountains of Peru, Machu Picchu was abandoned after the Spaniards conquered the Incan empire in the sixteenth century. It remained hidden until 1911 when Hiram Bingham uncovered the marvelous complex and shared his discovery with the world. Today, hundreds of thousands of people visit the site to climb the 3,000 stone steps, explore the towering monuments, and see the numerous species that call these famous ruins home.

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu
Author: Elizabeth Mann
Publsiher: Wonders of the World Book
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1931414106

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Describes the history of the Inca civilization and the construction of the city of Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.

Lost City of the Incas

Lost City of the Incas
Author: Hiram Bingham
Publsiher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780297865339

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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.