Thomson, Hugh <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320 ) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781590200582 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006053275 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Thomson, Hugh
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Incas
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Andes----Description and travel
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F3429  / .T275 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS 985 THO