Making Machu Picchu

Author: Mark Rice
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
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.

Lost City of the Incas

Author: Hiram Bingham
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297865331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
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.

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

Author: Mark Adams
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101535407
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description
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?

Heights of Macchu Picchu

Author: Barry Brukoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bilingual books
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description

Machu Picchu

Author: Richard L. Burger
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300097638
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
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.

Machu Picchu

Author: Elizabeth Mann
Publisher: Wonders of the World Book
ISBN: 9781931414104
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

Journey to Machu Picchu

Author: Carol Cumes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567181869
Category : Holy places
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Readers are invited to enter the shamanic world of Andean healers and herbalists and connect with Andean power animals as co-author Carol Cumes describes her personal spiritual journey into the mystic Andes mountains. 32 pages of color photos. December '98 publication date.

Lost City

Author: Ted Lewin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101652772
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
Caldecott Honor-winner Ted Lewin takes readers on a thrilling journey to the wilds of Peru in this story of Hiram Bingham, who, in 1911, carved a treacherous path through snake-filled jungles and across perilous mountains in search of Vilcapampa, the lost city of the Incas. Guided the last steps by a young Quechua boy, however, he discovered not the rumored lost city, but the ruins of Machu Picchu, a city totally unknown to the outside world, and one of the wonders of the world.

Machu Picchu

Author: Kenneth R. Wright
Publisher: ASCE Publications
ISBN: 9780784404447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Presents a detailed study of Machu Picchu's construction. Tells as much about the practical challenges of building a city as it does about the mysterious Inca.

Where Is Machu Picchu?

Author: Megan Stine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 152478883X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
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.