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Cochineal Red Travels Through Ancient Peru

Hardcover • 2006 • English

Cochineal Red Travels Through Ancient Peru

By Hugh Thomson

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About the book

Peru wears its ancient cultures wrapped around in layers, like one of the mummified bodies so well preserved by the nitrates of its deserts. After his acclaimed book on the Incas, The White Rock, Hugh Thomson unwraps those layers to show how civilisation emerged so early and so spectacularly in this toughest and most arid of terrains. Many of the extraordinary cultures of Ancient Peru, from the lines of Nasca to the temple-cult of Chavín, buried in the mountains, and the great pyramids of the co...Show more

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ISBN

9780297645641

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Cochineal Red Travels Through Ancient Peru

Format

Hardcover

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