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008			110816s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a2006053275
020			_a9781590200582
050	0	0	_aF3429 _b.T275 2007
082	0	0	_aLAS 985 THO
100	1		_aThomson, Hugh
245	1	2	_aA sacred landscape _b: the search for ancient Peru _c/ Hugh Thomson
260			_aWoodstock, N.Y. _b: Overlook Press _c, 2007.
300			_axix, 330 p., [32] p. of plates _b: ill., maps _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-320 ) and index.
520			_aHugh 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.
600	1	0	_aThomson, Hugh
650		0	_aIncas
651		0	_aAndes _x--Description and travel
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