Hiram Bingham and the Dream of Gold
Hiram Bingham was the ideal explorer-adventurer-handsome, rich, intelligent, brave, and tough. His life seems like something out of film hero Indiana Jones's exploits in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The descendant of strong-willed missionaries, Bingham was born in Hawaii in 1875, At Yale he specialized in South American studies and became a college teacher. Gradually, the romance of the past took hold of his practical soul. Obsessed by the Incas and his dream of uncovering lost cities, Bingham initiated and expedition to Peru that would lead him to uncharted territories. Using quotations from Bingham's accounts, Cohen describes how in 1911 Bingha…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59077-350-5
- EAN: 9781590773505
- Produktnummer: 16097817
- Verlag: M. Evans & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 194 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 252 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 252
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Daniel Cohen has written more than seventy books for young people, including Great Mistakes and Henry Stanley and the Quest for the Source of the Nile. He lives in Port Jervis, New York, with his wife and daughter.
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