Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru - Softcover

Bingham, Hiram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530326362 ISBN 13: 9781530326365

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru is a Peruvian travelogue by the legendary explorer, Hiram Bingham. The following pages represent some of the results of four journeys into the interior of Peru and also many explorations into the labyrinth of early writings which treat of the Incas and their Land. Although my travels covered only a part of southern Peru, they took me into every variety of climate and forced me to camp at almost every altitude at which men have constructed houses or erected tents in the Western Hemisphere--from sea level up to 21,703 feet.

About this title

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: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530326362
• ISBN 13: 9781530326365
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208