Machu My Picchu
Title | Machu My Picchu PDF eBook |
Author | Iris Bahr |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2011-09-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0762768312 |
Amy Sedaris meets Woody Allen in an uproarious memoir of self discovery. In her critically acclaimed memoir Dork Whore, Iris Bahr finally lost her virginity in the summer between high school and Brown University. In this book, she’s ready for love a year later—but not much wiser. Through all of her uproarious capers, she tries to reconcile her craving for mindblowing sex with her desire for a meaningful relationship—all in an attempt to become an adult. Sort of.
Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Title | Turn Right at Machu Picchu PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Adams |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2011-06-30 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1101535407 |
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?
Heights of Macchu Picchu
Title | Heights of Macchu Picchu PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Brukoff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Bilingual books |
ISBN |
Machu Picchu
Title | Machu Picchu PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Mann |
Publisher | Wonders of the World Book |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781931414104 |
Describes the history of the Inca civilization and the construction of the city of Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.
Machu Picchu
Title | Machu Picchu PDF eBook |
Author | Richard L. Burger |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0300097638 |
Details the status of contemporary research on Incan civilization, and addresses mysteries of the founding and abandonment of Machu Picchu, charting its archaeological history from 1911 to the present.
Lost City
Title | Lost City PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Lewin |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2003-06-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1101652772 |
Caldecott Honor-winner Ted Lewin takes readers on a thrilling journey to the wilds of Peru in this story of Hiram Bingham, who, in 1911, carved a treacherous path through snake-filled jungles and across perilous mountains in search of Vilcapampa, the lost city of the Incas. Guided the last steps by a young Quechua boy, however, he discovered not the rumored lost city, but the ruins of Machu Picchu, a city totally unknown to the outside world, and one of the wonders of the world.
Where Is Machu Picchu?
Title | Where Is Machu Picchu? PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Stine |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2018-01-23 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 152478883X |
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.