Hiram Bingham

First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were of white granite, exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man. Bingham had not, as it turned out, found Vilcabamba, but he had nevertheless made an astonishing and memorable discovery, which he describes in his bestselling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS.

Lost City of the Incas

Vitcos, the Last Inca Capital

Along the Uncharted Pampaconas

A Gilbertese-English Dictionary

Augusta McKendrick’s serene world is shattered in an instant when a shot rings out at the Billingsly School for Young Ladies and an influential United States senator lies dead in the middle of the library floor. Vainly, she strives to hide the evidence of the crime, but within days, Major Jackson St. Charles arrives to accuse her of murder and place her under house arrest. Once inside the school, Jackson St. Charles has his own agenda to follow and a private score to settle with Augusta’s brother, once the man is found. He follows her every move, determined to discover the truth about this feisty beauty. But the more his interrogation intensifies, the more he begins to believe that a much darker secret lurks behind this mystery. And as his resolve weakens, the forbidden desire he feels for her grows even stronger... Augusta will do anything to keep the real murderer safe, to protect her sister and her Rebel brother—even if it seems confessing to a crime she didn’t commit. But what she isn’t prepared to face is the incredible passion awakened in her by the Major, and the overwhelming, persuasive power of his love...

Sweet Decadence

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. It has been my lot to cross bleak Andean passes, where there are heavy snowfalls and low temperatures, as well as to wend my way through gigantic canyons into the dense jungles of the Amazon Basin, as hot and humid a region as exists anywhere in the world.

Inca Land

Hiram Bingham, famoso por dar a conocer al mundo la ciudad perdida de Machu Picchu relata en este libro sus aventuras y descubrimientos en las Expediciones que la Universidad de Yale y la National Geographic Society enviaron a Perú en 1911-1912 y 1915.

La Tierra de Los Incas: Exploraciones En Las Montañas del Perú

A Residence of Twenty-9ne Years in the Sandwich Islands; Or, The Civil, Religious, and Political History of Those Islands ...

An Account of a Journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by Way of Potosí, with Notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru

Across South America

A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands

Comprising a Particular View of the Missionary Operations Connected with the Introduction and Progress of Christianity and Civilization Among the Hawaiian People

A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands; Or, The Civil, Religious, and Political History of Those Islands

Or, The Civil, Religious, and Political History of Those Islands: Comprising a Particular View of the Missionary Operations Connected with the Introduction and Progress of Christianity and Civilization Among the Hawaiian People

And Exploration of the Route of Bolivar's Celebrated March of 1819 and of the Battle-fields of Boyacá and Carabobo

The Journal of an Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia, 1906-1907

In the middle of her wedding ceremony, celebrated artist model Marguerite DuBois is abducted by Bram St. Charles, a Civil War soldier who had been presumed dead and who wants to rebuild his home and claim Marguerite as his lawful wife.

Sweet Defiance

The Children's Missionary Vessel

Story of the Morning Star

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