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Lost City of the Incas
• Hiram Bingham
EXPLORATION •
2003 •
PAPER
• 286 PAGES
• BEST SELLER
• FAVORITE
A first-rate tale of adventure by the man who rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911. This classic account is a gripping story of exploration, archaeology and natural history -- and still an outstanding overview of the site itself. With original expedition photographs. Originally published in 1952, the book is still an excellent account, not only of the expedition but also of the site itself.
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
• Eduardo Galeano
• Cedric Belfrage
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 317 PAGES
The 25th anniversary edition of the landmark history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America. This wrenchingly beautiful book takes for one of its central metaphors the booms and busts of the Potosi mines in the Bolivian highlands. Using local slave labor, the 16th century Spaniards took billions of dollars worth of silver from a single hillside there. The British and Americans returned to the site centuries later to mine tin for their war machine. The book also takes on the banana republics of Central America, the Amazonian rubber plantations and the numerous American invasions throughout the region.
(AND26, $18.00) |
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