Making Machu Picchu

Author : Mark Rice
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643540

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Making Machu Picchu by Mark Rice Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Adams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781101535400

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Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams Pdf

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?

Author : Megan Stine,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781524788834

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Where Is Machu Picchu? by Megan Stine,Who HQ Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Heaney
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780230339880

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Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney Pdf

In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the Incas' greatest achievement. Tall, handsome, and sure of his destiny, Bingham believed that Machu Picchu was the Incas' final refuge, where they fled the Spanish Conquistadors. Bingham made Machu Picchu famous, and his dispatches from the jungle cast him as the swashbuckling hero romanticized today as a true Indiana Jones-like character. But his excavation of the site raised old specters of conquest and plunder, and met with an indigenous nationalism that changed the course of Peruvian history. Though Bingham successfully realized his dream of bringing Machu Picchu's treasure of skulls, bones and artifacts back to the United States, conflict between Yale and Peru persists through the present day over a simple question: Who owns Inca history? In this grand, sweeping narrative, Christopher Heaney takes the reader into the heart of Peru's past to relive the dramatic story of the final years of the Incan empire, the exhilarating recovery of their final cities and the thought-provoking fight over their future. Drawing on original research in untapped archives, Heaney vividly portrays both a stunning landscape and the complex history of a fascinating region that continues to inspire awe and controversy today.

Author : Amy Cox Hall
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781477313701

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Framing a Lost City by Amy Cox Hall Pdf

An “engaging” study of Machu Picchu’s transformation from ruin to World Heritage site, and the role a National Geographic photo feature played (Latin American Research Review). When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed by a few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation began with the photographs that accompanied Bingham’s article were published in National Geographic magazine, which depicted Machu Picchu as a lost city discovered. Focusing on the practices, technologies, and materializations of Bingham’s three expeditions to Peru in the first decade of the twentieth century, this book makes a convincing case that visualization, particularly through the camera, played a decisive role in positioning Machu Picchu as both a scientific discovery and a Peruvian heritage site. Amy Cox Hall argues that while Bingham’s expeditions relied on the labor, knowledge, and support of Peruvian elites, intellectuals, and peasants, the practice of scientific witnessing, and photography specifically, converted Machu Picchu into a cultural artifact fashioned from a distinct way of seeing. Drawing on science and technology studies, she situates letter writing, artifact collecting, and photography as important expeditionary practices that helped shape the way we understand Machu Picchu today. Cox Hall also demonstrates that the photographic evidence was unstable, and, as images circulated worldwide, the “lost city” took on different meanings—especially in Peru, which came to view the site as one of national patrimony in need of protection from expeditions such as Bingham’s.

Author : Ruth M. Wright,Alfredo Valencia Zegarra
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1555663273

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The Machu Picchu Guidebook by Ruth M. Wright,Alfredo Valencia Zegarra Pdf

"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."

Author : Barry Brukoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bilingual books
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010144282

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Heights of Macchu Picchu by Barry Brukoff Pdf

Author : Johan Reinhard
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770920

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Machu Picchu by Johan Reinhard Pdf

Machu Picchu, recently voted one of the New Wonders of the World, is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, yet it remains a mystery. Even the most basic questions are still unanswered: What was its meaning and why was it built in such a difficult location? Renowned explorer Johan Reinhard attempts to answer such elusive questions from the perspectives of sacred landscape and archaeoastronomy. Using information gathered from historical, archaeological, and ethnographical sources, Reinhard demonstrates how the site is situated in the center of sacred mountains and associated with a sacred river, which is in turn symbolically linked with the sun's passage. Taken together, these features meant that Machu Picchu formed a cosmological, hydrological, and sacred geological center for a vast region.

Author : Hiram Bingham
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297865339

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Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham Pdf

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.

Author : Gerald Hansen
Publisher : Mint Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Peru and Machu Picchu by Gerald Hansen Pdf

Get set for Jet Lag Jerry again! Join me as I travel to Peru, to Lima, Cuzco, Ollantaytambo and to the jewel in the crown of this exciting country, Machu Picchu. It's another of the fantastic seven modern wonders of the world. Woozy in the high altitude, jittery from cocaine tea, stomach groaning from grilled guinea pig, I'll take you on the long journey, by plane, train, taxi, bus and good old fashioned hiking, through herds of alpaca to the ancient Inca wonder. Join me for a fun-filled trip.

Author : Elizabeth Mann
Publisher : Mikaya Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780965049399

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Machu Picchu by Elizabeth Mann Pdf

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

Author : Hiram Bingham
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002783416

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Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham Pdf

Chronicles the 1911 expedition to the Andes mountains in Peru, during which the ancient royal city of the Incas, Vilcapampa, now known as Machu Picchu, was discovered.

Author : iMinds
Publisher : iMinds Pty Ltd
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921798467

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Machu Picchu: Travel by iMinds Pdf

Learn about the history of Machu Picchu in South America with iMinds Travel's insightful fast knowledge series. Hidden for centuries in the vast Peruvian jungle lies the ancient city of Machu Picchu. It is one of the finest examples of Incan architecture on the continent, preserved and unplundered by the Spanish when they invaded in the sixteenth century. It eluded the Spanish and although it has long been rediscovered, its essence is still shrouded in mystery. In 1911, USA historian Hiram Bingham set out in search of Vilcabamba, a lost city that was the last refuge of the Inca people before they capitulated to the Spanish. Instead, he stumbled across the Machu Picchu site. He believed that he had found the city he was after but what he had actually stumbled upon has turned out to be a much more celebrated and significant archaeological site. iMinds will tell you the story behind the place with its innovative travel series, transporting the armchair traveller or getting you in the mood for discover on route to your destination. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

Author : Pellegrino A. Luciano
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498545952

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Neoliberal Reform in Machu Picchu by Pellegrino A. Luciano Pdf

Pellegrino A. Luciano analyzes how people in Machu Picchu, Peru mobilized against neoliberal reforms. Luciano describes how they resisted and accommodated large capital investments and conservation efforts to protect their local tourism economy.

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529367782

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X Marks the Spot by Michael Scott Pdf

'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOW 'A thrilling investigation' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB 'Alive with the spirit of adventure' SIR RANULPH FIENNES Through eight sensational stories of discovery, Professor Michael Scott traces the evolution of modern archaeology from colonial expeditions to today's cutting-edge digs, unearthing traps, curses and buried treasure along the way. We uncover why different periods and places have caught our attention and imaginations at different times. We meet the characters, some celebrated and some forgotten, who found world-famous discoveries like the Rosetta Stone, the Terracotta Warriors and Machu Picchu. We investigate ancient human footprints, stunning shipwrecks, mythical princesses and surprising rituals as keyholes to the wonders of past civilisations. And we unravel how archaeological finds have often become emblems of modern fascinations and dilemmas. Crossing millions of years, trekking from the jungles of South America to the frozen highlands of Central Asia, X Marks the Spot reveals how much the discovery of our past is intertwined with the concerns of our present and why X never, ever marks the spot. 'Fascinating' GREG JENNER 'An essential read for anyone with even a fleeting interest in exploring the past' JANINA RAMIREZ