Book Description
Chronicle of an expedition into the Llanganati Mountains of Ecuador in search of 750 tons of worked gold, which the Incas hid from the Spanish conquistadors after Pizarro executed the Sun King, Atahualpa.
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Inca goldwork
ISBN : 9781563979835
Chronicle of an expedition into the Llanganati Mountains of Ecuador in search of 750 tons of worked gold, which the Incas hid from the Spanish conquistadors after Pizarro executed the Sun King, Atahualpa.
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Gold
ISBN : 9781563977435
Chronicle of an expedition into the Llanganati Mountains of Ecuador in search of 750 tons of worked gold, which the Incas hid from the Spanish conquistadors after Pizarro executed the Sun King, Atahualpa.
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan W. Stokes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0147515637
This funny, action-filled series is perfect for adventure-loving fans of Indiana Jones and James Patterson's Treasure Hunters! Twelve-year-old Addison Cooke just wishes something exciting would happen to him. His aunt and uncle, both world-famous researchers, travel to the ends of the earth searching for hidden treasure, dodging dangerous robbers along the way, while Addison is stuck in school all day. Luckily for Addison, adventure has a way of finding the Cookes. After his uncle unearths the first ancient Incan clue needed to find a vast trove of lost treasure, he is kidnapped by members of a shadowy organization intent on stealing the riches. Addison’s uncle is the bandits’ key to deciphering the ancient clues and looting the treasure . . . unless Addison and his friends can outsmart the kidnappers and crack the code first! Full of laugh-out-loud moments, danger, excitement, and nonstop action, Addison Cooke and the Treasure of the Incas is sure to strike gold with kid readers. "What to give the kid who's read all the Harry Potter and Percy Jackson books? Try Addison Cooke and the Treasure of the Incas." —Parents Magazine "An exciting Indiana Jones-style tale of a seventh-grade boy trying to save his kidnapped aunt and uncle—museum curators who are linked to an ancient key that unlocks riches.” —Good Housekeeping "An exciting, adventurous new read…the first book in a new series that promises laugh-out-loud moments and nonstop action." —Boys’ Life
Author : Mark Honigsbaum
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330491150
This is the story of how gold can intoxicate even the most mild mannered of historians, about how characters - both real and fictional - become seized with the desire to claim lost treasure from even the most inhospitable areas of the world.
Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 000647909X
A Dirk Pitt adventure.
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1999-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780605007123
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Eight billion dollars worth of Inca gold & silver are rumored to be hidden in an unmapped region of the Andes. This is the captivating story of that fabled treasure & the centuries-old spell it has cast on many, including a young American student. While completing anthropological field work in Ecuador, the author heard the legend of Atahualpa's ransom. The Incas gathered seven-hundred tons of gold (Sweat of the Sun) & silver (Tears of the Moon) to purchase the freedom of their king, Atahualpa, from Pizarro & his conquistadors. After the Inca ruler's murder, the treasure vanished into the forsaken Llanganati range of the Andes. The author abandoned his graduate school ambitions to search for Atahualpa's ransom. His quest for clues & his journey into the heart of the Andes is an absorbing & exciting detective story. His account is also unforgettable for its revelations about the lives & characters of seasoned treasure hunters, the obsessed few lured by the siren song of legendary gold.
Author : Neil B. Chambers
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0230112048
Christopher Heaney takes the reader into the heart of Peru's past to relive the dramatic story of the final years of the Incan empire, the recovery of their final cities and the fight over their future. Drawing on original research in untapped archives, Heaney portrays both a stunning landscape and the complex history of a region that continues to inspire awe and controversy today. --from publisher description
Author : Rene Noorbergen
Publisher : TEACH Services, Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572581982
An increasing number of historical and archaeological finds made around the world have been classified as out-of-place artifacts (ooparts). They have been called this because they appear unexpectedly among the ruins of the past with no evidence of a preceding period of development; their technological sophistication seems far beyond the capabilities of ancient peoples.Drawing on the literature and art of the Chaldeans, Sumerians, Babylonians and others, Rene Noorbergen's contention is that a superior race of man was responsible for these scientific marvels that bear testimony to a civilization with technology comparable to our own.