Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru

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Hiram Bingham. Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru

Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru

Table of Contents

Preface

Illustrations

Chapter I

Crossing the Desert

Chapter II

Climbing Coropuna

Chapter III

To Parinacochas

Chapter IV

Flamingo Lake

Chapter V

Titicaca

Chapter VI

The Vilcanota Country and the Peruvian Highlanders

Chapter VII

The Valley of the Huatanay

Chapter VIII

The Oldest City in South America

Chapter IX

The Last Four Incas

Chapter X

Searching for the Last Inca Capital

Chapter XI

The Search Continued

Chapter XII

The Fortress of Uiticos and the House of the Sun

Chapter XIII

Vilcabamba

Chapter XIV

Conservidayoc

Chapter XV

The Pampa of Ghosts

Chapter XVI

The Story of Tampu-tocco, a Lost City of the First Incas

Chapter XVII

Machu Picchu

Chapter XVIII

The Origin of Machu Picchu

Glossary

Bibliography of the Peruvian Expeditions of Yale University and the National Geographic Society

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Hiram Bingham

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Camping at 18,450 Feet on the Slopes of Coropuna

For breakfast we had pemmican, hard-tack, pea soup and tea. We all wanted plenty of sugar in our tea and drank large quantities of it. Experience on Mt. McKinley had led Tucker to believe heartily in the advantages of pemmican, a food especially Page 33prepared for Arctic explorers. Neither Coello nor Gamarra nor I had ever tasted it before. We decided that it is not very palatable on first acquaintance. Although doubtless of great value when one has to spend long periods of time in the Arctic, where even seal's blubber is a delicacy “as good as cow's cream,” I presume we could have done just as well without it.

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