Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) - Softcover

Bingham, Hiram Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409990052 ISBN 13: 9781409990055

Publisher: Dodo Press, 2009

Synopsis

Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, (1875- 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. He rediscovered the Inca settlement of Machu Picchu in 1911. Later, he served as a member of the United States Senate. He taught history and politics at Harvard and then served as preceptor under Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University. In 1907, Yale University appointed Bingham III as a lecturer in South American history. He was not a trained archaeologist. Yet, it was during Bingham's time as a lecturer - later professor - at Yale that he discovered the largely forgotten Inca city of Machu Picchu. In 1908, he had served as delegate to the First Pan American Scientific Congress at Santiago, Chile. On his way home via Peru, a local prefect convinced him to visit the pre-Columbian city of Choquequirao. Bingham was thrilled by the prospect of unexplored Inca cities, and in 1911 returned to the Andes with the Yale Peruvian Expedition. He returned to Peru in 1912 and 1915 with the support of Yale and the National Geographic Society.

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About the Author:

HIRAM BINGHAM was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1875. After receiving a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard, he sailed to South America in 1906. In 1911 he located the site of the last Inca capital and became the first person to ascend the 21,763-foot Mount Coropuma. The following year he discovered Machu Picchu. After serving in World War I, Bingham served as governor of Connecticut in 1925 and as a U.S. senator from 1925 to 1933.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dodo Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1409990052
• ISBN 13: 9781409990055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290