Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Inca Land, by Hiram BinghamThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of PeruAuthor: Hiram BinghamRelease Date: January 21, 2004 [EBook #10772]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INCA LAND ***Produced by Jeroen HellingmanINCA LANDExplorations in the Highlands of PeruByHiram Bingham1922------FIGURE"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind theRanges--Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting foryou. Go!"Kipling: "The Explorer"------This Volumeis affectionately dedicatedtothe Muse who inspired itthe Little Mother of Seven SonsPrefaceThe following pages represent some of the results of four journeys intothe interior of Peru and also many explorations into the labyrinth ofearly writings which treat of the Incas and their Land. Although mytravels covered only a part of southern Peru, they took me into everyvariety of climate and forced me to camp at almost every altitudeat which men have constructed houses or erected tents in the WesternHemisphere--from sea level up to 21,703 feet. It has been my lot tocross bleak Andean passes, where there are heavy snowfalls and lowtemperatures, ...