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Synopsis
From the lines of the Nasca to the temple-cult of Chavin and the great pyramids of the coast, many of the extraordinary cultures of ancient Peru have only just started to give up their secrets in the last few years. Hugh Thompson has been at the forefront of some of these discoveries. Now, in A Sacred Landscape, he takes the reader on a journey back from the great Moche pyramids to remote sites in the Central highlands that date back to the first millennium BCE-ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in mystery. Drawing on the year that he spent on a farm in the Yucay Valley, Thompson illuminates how things have changed-or failed to change-in the five centuries that separate contemporary Peru from the civilization that is one of the world's oldest and most captivating enigmas. Book jacket.Book Details
Published
May 27, 2008
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pages
330
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781590200582