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An overview of the ancient Aztec and Zapotec civilizations in Mexico as well as the Incas of South America. Visits Cuzco, Machu Picchu and Mexico City. Discusses the advanced agricultural techniques employed by these pre-Columbian peoples, as well as their advances in architecture, mathematics and astronomy.
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"An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten journey through South America. In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, who would become America's bestselling "gonzo journalist, " completed a year-long journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for a now-defunct paper called the National Observer. With the gritty humor and keen political observations for which he later became known,...
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Children of the lamp volume 5
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Djinn twins John and Philippa, along with their Uncle Nimrod, travel to the Amazon jungle to try to recover a stolen collection of rare Incan artifacts.
71) The Inca empire
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Discusses the Incan empire, including their traditional way of life, the reign of King Pachacuti, the last of the great kings, the Incan civil war, and the end of the empire.
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A young Quechuan boy sets out on his own to bring the rains back to his parched homeland and is rewarded by a gift of carob beans that come to be prized across Argentina. In the middle of the wide Argentine pampas there once grew a magic tree. Above this tree slept a bird so evil it could stop the rain from falling. And not far from this tree lived a brave boy who one day set out to save his village and all the creatures from dying of thirst. Illustrated...
78) The Incas
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Explains the various elements of the Incas, including their history, daily life, religion, cooking and eating, trading and transportation, and more.
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