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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Most visitors to Machu Picchu the Lost City of the Incas high in the Peruvian Andes find the place breathtaking this must surely be one of the world’s most spectacular archaeological sites. Yet the Incas were in fact the inheritors rather than the creators of Andean civilization in the age before the Spanish conquest. For millennia a variety of advanced cultures had flourished in the shadow of this great mountain chain. In the enastal river valleys the Paracas Nasca Lambayeque Moche and Chimu cultures succeeded one another while in the highlands influential power bases were established at Chavin Wari and Tiwanaku. Tresisures of the Andes presents a vivid and richly illustrated portrait of the rise and fall of the various coastal and mountain peoples of the region and the magnificent design and erallsmanship they have bequeathed to posterity. Despite the destruction wrought by European colonizers greedy for native treasure enough astulacts have survived to testify to great skill and imaginative sophistication- from exquisitely detailed textiles and ceramics to monumental architecture and Intricate metalweek. In particular the gold and silver artistry of the pre-Columbian Andes ave outstanding A popular hymn of the Incas declared that “The sun rains gold the moon rains silver reflecting South American belief in a powerful body of elemental myths on which the art provides a dramatic visual commentary. Pracing such connections between symbolism and belief art and myth Treasures of the Andes sets the riches of South America in their historical and regional context and restores an important missing piece in the jigsaw of the world’s great civilizations. (MP)