Cradle of Gold The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu

by Heaney, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780230611696
• ISBN10: 0230611699
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-13
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

In this grand, sweeping narrative, Heaney takes the reader into the heart of Peru's past to relive the dramatic story of the final years of the Incan empire, the exhilarating recovery of its final cities, and the thought-provoking fight over its future.

Author Biography

Christopher Heaney worked as a journalist in Peru on a Fulbright fellowship. He has written articles on Hiram Bingham for the New Republic and The New York Times. A graduate of Yale University, he is currently a doctoral candidate in Latin American History at the University of Texas, Austin.

Table of Contents

Maps	p. ix
Preface: Beneath the Hat	p. xi
Introduction The Last City of the Incas: The Sixteenth-Century Conquest	p. 1
The Explorer
The Black Temple	p. 11
The Ivory Tower	p. 17
The Compass	p. 21
Into the Andes	p. 29
Cuzco, the Navel of the World	p. 37
Choqquequirau, the Cradle of Gold	p. 49
Interlude: Manco Inca	p. 57
The Search
Best Laid Plans	p. 65
Dead Man's Gulch	p. 75
The Discoverers of Machu Picchu	p. 83
The White Temple	p. 97
The Plain of Ghosts	p. 105
Interlude: Titu Cusi	p. 117
The Resurrectionists
The Deal	p. 125
The Cemetery of the Incas	p. 133
The Debate	p. 141
The Prize	p. 147
Interlude: Tupac Amaru	p. 157
Bonesmen
Between the Poles	p. 163
Temptation	p. 171
Roads to Ruins	p. 181
The Trial of Hiram Bingham	p. 189
Airborne	p. 199
Epilogue Returns	p. 209
Afterword	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 249
A Note on Sources	p. 251
Notes	p. 255
Index	p. 277
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