A Sacred Landscape
Subtitle: The Search for Ancient Peru
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Published: June 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781585679010
Subjects: South America; Travel / South America; Description And Travel; South America - History; Travel; Travel - Foreign; Andes Region; Antiquities; Inca architecture; Inca roads; Incas
Description: Hugh Thompson has made a career exploring the mysterious pre-Columbian cultures of ancient Peru, providing unforgettable accounts of South America's most strange--but enduring--culture. Here, he takes us from the great Moche pyramids to remote sites in the central highlands that date back to the first millennium BCE--ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in mystery. He elegantly interweaves his account of the rise, decline, and fall of pre-Inca civilization with the story of his family's relocation to a farm in the Yucay valley, the one-time heartland of ancient Peru. Thompson draws on the year that he spent alongside contemporary Peruvians to explore how things have changed--or failed to change--in the five centuries or more that separate contemporary Peru from the civilization that is one of the world's oldest and most captivating enigmas.--From publisher description.