A sacred landscape : the search for ancient Peru
Thomson, Hugh
A sacred landscape : the search for ancient Peru / Hugh Thomson - Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press , 2007. - xix, 330 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320 ) and index.
Hugh Thompson has made a career exploring the mysterious pre-Columbian cultures of ancient Peru, providing unforgettable accounts of South America's most strange--but enduring--culture. Here, he takes us from the great Moche pyramids to remote sites in the central highlands that date back to the first millennium BCE--ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in mystery. He elegantly interweaves his account of the rise, decline, and fall of pre-Inca civilization with the story of his family's relocation to a farm in the Yucay valley, the one -time heartland of ancient Peru. Thompson draws on the year that he spent alongside contemporary Peruvians to explore how things have changed--or failed to change--in the five centuries or more that separate contemporary Peru from the civilization that is one of the world's oldest and most captivating enigmas.
9781590200582
2006053275
Thomson, Hugh
Incas
Andes----Description and travel
F3429 / .T275 2007
LAS 985 THO
A sacred landscape : the search for ancient Peru / Hugh Thomson - Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press , 2007. - xix, 330 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320 ) and index.
Hugh Thompson has made a career exploring the mysterious pre-Columbian cultures of ancient Peru, providing unforgettable accounts of South America's most strange--but enduring--culture. Here, he takes us from the great Moche pyramids to remote sites in the central highlands that date back to the first millennium BCE--ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in mystery. He elegantly interweaves his account of the rise, decline, and fall of pre-Inca civilization with the story of his family's relocation to a farm in the Yucay valley, the one -time heartland of ancient Peru. Thompson draws on the year that he spent alongside contemporary Peruvians to explore how things have changed--or failed to change--in the five centuries or more that separate contemporary Peru from the civilization that is one of the world's oldest and most captivating enigmas.
9781590200582
2006053275
Thomson, Hugh
Incas
Andes----Description and travel
F3429 / .T275 2007
LAS 985 THO
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