Peter Lourie

Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon

A Chronicle of an Incan Treasure

Buch

Eight billion dollars' worth of Inca gold and silver are rumored to be hidden in an unmapped region of the Andes. This is the captivating story of that fabled treasure and the centuries-old spell it has cast on many, including a young American student, Peter Lourie.While completing anthropological fieldwork in Ecuador, Lourie heard the legend of Atahualpa's ransom. The Incas gathered seven-hundred tons of gold (Sweat of the Sun) and silver (Tears of the Moon) to purchase the freedom of their king, Atahualpa, from Pizarro and his conquistadors. After the Inca ruler's murder, the treasure vanished into the forsaken Llanganati range of the Andes… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8032-7980-3
EAN: 9780803279803
Produktnummer: 9506142
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Seitenangabe: 307 S.
Masse: H15.3 cm x B22.8 cm x D3.0 cm 460 g
Auflage: New ed
Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
Gewicht: 460

Über den Autor

Peter Lourie is a lecturer in creative writing at Middlebury College. His many books include River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson and In the Path of Lewis and Clark: Traveling the Missouri.