Christopher Heaney

Cradle of Gold

The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu

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Produktbeschreibung

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. http://christopherheaney.net

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / St. Martin's Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780230112049
• ISBN-10: 0230112048
• Artikelnr.: 33136962

Autorenporträt

Christopher Heaney

Inhaltsangabe

Map
Preface: Beneath the Hat
The Last City of the Incas: the Sixteenth-Century Conquest
PART I: THE EXPLORER
The Black Temple
Ivory Tower
The Compass
The George Washington of the Andes/Into the Andes
The Navel of the World
Choqquequirau, The Cradle of Gold
Manco Inca
PART II: THE SEARCH
Best Laid Plans
Dead Man's Gulch
The Discoverers of Machu Picchu
Yurak Rumi/The White Temple
The Plain of Ghosts
Titu Cusi
PART III: THE TREASURE
The Deal
The Resurrectionists
The Debate
The Prize
Tupac Amaru
PART IV: WAR
Between the Poles
Bonesmen
Roads to Ruins
The Trial of Hiram Bingham
Airborne
The Return