Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru
- ISBN-10
- 0598578110
- ISBN-13
- 9780598578112
- Category
- Travel / South America / Peru
- Pages
- 365
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1922
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Author
- Hiram Bingham
Description
The following pages represent some of the results of four journeys into the interior of Peru and also many explorations into the labyrinth of early writings which treat of the Incas and their Land.
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