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1) Machu Picchu
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Series
Language
English
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"Built by the Inca people thousands of years ago, Machu Picchu still stands today after it was mysteriously abandoned by those who inhabited it. Young readers will learn about who built it, when it was built, and why it was built. This title is complete with impressive historical and current photographs and images, and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Factor V. Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
No one leaves the rainforest alive... When the body of Hunter Gearhardt washes up on the banks of a season river in remote Peru, he has only an odd collection of rocks and feathers in his possession- and a golden headdress of indeterminate origin. Using these few clues, his grieving father launches an expedition into the rainforest to find out where and how is son died. Deep into the interior, the expedition discover a surviving offshoot of a primitive...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating bilingual picture book biography of Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello, who unearthed Peru's ancient cultures and fostered pride in the country's Indigenous history. Growing up in the late 1800s, Julio Tello, an Indigenous boy, spent time exploring the caves and burial grounds in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes. Nothing scared Julio, not even the ancient human skulls he found. His bravery earned him the boyhood...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"How did the mysterious images high in the Nazca Desert in Peru come to be? Find out the truth about these ancient figures in the soil that can only be fully seen from high above the Nazca plain." -- amazon.com
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A 2.400 metros de altitud, en el corazón de la cordillera andina, se alzan las ruinas de una misteriosa y antigua ciudad llamada Machu Picchu. Este importante enclave Inca permaneció oculto durante 400 añoñs, hasta que el explorador Hiram Bingham dio con él en 1911. La falta de registros escritos por sus orígenes y su historio rodeó la ciudad de un velo de misterio.
Author
Publisher
Phoenix
Pub. Date
2003, ©1952
Language
English
Description
First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. Reissue of one of the great pieces of exploration literature. Discovery of Machu Picchu was one of the most important romantic stories of the heroic age of archaeology. Includes an introduction by Hugh Thomson - himself a explorer of renown. 'A rich, lively book...it is the classic adventure' Irish Times 'Bingham catalogues his finds...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Una biografia ilustrada de Julio C. Tello, considerado el fundador de la arqueologia peruana moderna y quien llego a ser el cientifico social indigena mas distinguido del siglo XX.
"A picture biography of Julio C. Tello, considered to be the founder of modern Peruvian archaeology, that traces his life from an early interest in Peru's ancient cultures to his rise as the most distinguished Indigenous social scientist of the twentieth century. A map...
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