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Hiking and Trekking Around Cusco and the Sacred Valley Topographic Map Atlas 1:50000 Urubamba, Paucartambo, Ollantaytambo, Pisac, Maras Peru Inca Trail
Updated 2018 edition. Detailed topographic map 1:50.000 & 20 meter contours for hiking and trekking, printed as an atlas book (with overlapping pages). Covers the area around the ancient city of Cusco (aka Cuzco, Qosqo, Qusqu) that used to be the historic capital of the Inca Empire, and a section of the famous Sacred Valley of the Inca (Urubamba River valley) closest to Cusco. Historic city of Urubamba, Pisac, Paucartambo, Ollantaytambo, Maras, and others, interesting for the Inca ruins, all connected with ancient Inca and pre-Inca trails, many sections of which are still visible and can be walked today. 20 meter contour lines, road network, trails & paths, transportation, food, campsites, s...
Nature and Culture in the Andes
This text reveals the intimate and unexpected relationships of plants, animals and people in western South America. Daniel Gade encourages the reader to look beyond the obvious to see the true complexity of ecological relationships.
The Road to the Land of the Mother of God
Through more than five hundred years of the history of Peru's Interoceanic Highway, this book shows how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of roads change between historical periods, and thus why roads bring many more impacts and costs than their advocates and critics generally anticipate.
How the Incas Built Their Heartland
"In How the Incas Built Their Heartland R. Alan Covey supplements an archaeological approach with the tools of a historian, forming an interdisciplinary study of how the Incas became sufficiently powerful to embark on an unprecedented campaign of territorial expansion and how such developments related to earlier patterns of Andean statecraft."--BOOK JACKET.
The Archaeology of the Upper Amazon
This volume brings together archaeologists working in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to construct a new prehistory of the Upper Amazon, outlining cultural developments from the late third millennium B.C. to the Inca Empire of the sixteenth century A.D. Encompassing the forested tropical slopes of the eastern Andes as well as Andean drainage systems that connect to the Amazon River basin, this vast region has been unevenly studied due to the restrictions of national borders, remote site locations, and limited interpretive models. The Archaeology of the Upper Amazon unites and builds on recent field investigations that have found evidence of extensive interaction networks along the major rivers—...
Plants, Man and the Land in the Vilcanota Valley of Peru
Man's symbiosis with plants is the most fundamental material fact of human life on the earth. Geographers, as well as botanists, anthropologists and other scientists, have long been interested in this aspect of the man-nature theme. In American geography, CARL O. SAUER emphasized a temporal as well as spatial perspective in the cultural understanding of man's relationship to biological phe nomena. His researches and those of his associates in the 'Berkeley school' showed that the most fruitful possibilities for implementing this approach are in non industrial societies which have direct and pervasive links between plants and man (GADE, 1975). The study that follows is a geography of plant re...
Exploring Cuzco
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