Cradle of gold : the story of Hiram Bingham, a real-life Indiana Jones, and the search for Machu Picchu
Heaney, Christopher2011
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'Cradle of Gold' provides an account of adventurer Hiram Bingham's search for the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Bingham's dispatches cast him as a swashbuckling hero and revealed the lost city to the Western world. We are also told of Bingham's role in the export of Machu Picchu relics to the United States.
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Edition:
[New ed.].
Imprint:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
Collation:
xiv, 295 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: 2010.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780230112049 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2490852
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