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Lost City of the Incas Further Reading |
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short list below concentrates on those books or articles specifically
mentioning Machu Picchu or Hiram Bingham. Hugh Thomson
article for The Independent on Hiram Bingham By
Hugh Thomson Illustrated
catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name, analysing Bingham’s
photographic output, as well as those many other photographers who followed
him to Machu Picchu. The exhibition has been shown at
the British Museum, Oxford University and the Sainsbury Centre, UEA. Alfred Bingham, Portrait
of an Explorer: Hiram Bingham, Discover of Machu Picchu (Iowa State
University Press, 1989). Memoir by his son
Alfred which contains invaluable personal details about Bingham and the work
of the Yale Peruvian expeditions. Daniel Buck, Fights
of Machu Picchu, (South American Explorers Club Journal 32, 1993). Considers and
dismisses the various rival claims by Europeans and Americans to have
discovered Machu Picchu before Bingham. Richard L. Burger
and Lucy Salazar-Burger, edited by The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections
from The catalogue and
accompanying specialist set of essays issued for the recent excellent Yale
exhibition of Bingham’s finds at Machu Picchu. The catalogue is
essential reading and promotes the view of Machu Picchu as the ‘country
estate’ of Pachacuti. George F Eaton, The
Collection of Osteological Material from Machu
Picchu (Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston
1916) (translated into
Spanish with Introduction by Sonia Guillén, Lima
1990) Eaton analysed the
bones found at Machu Picchu and was largely responsible for the (since
discredited) theory that the population was largely female. Paul Fejos, Archaeological Explorations in the Cordillera
Vilcabamba, Southeastern Peru (Viking Fund
Publications in Anthropology no 3, New York 1944) Important account of
subsequent American expedition that expanded on Bingham’s discoveries near
Machu Picchu. Ernesto Che Guevara, Machu Picchu; Enigma de Piedra en América, December 1953, reprinted in
Revista de la Casa de las Américas (Havana), vol 28, no 163, July –August 1987 For Guevara’s first
published article he chose to write about the place which ‘drives any dreamer
to ecstasy’. He also commented astutely that ‘Machu Picchu was to Bingham the
crowning of all his purest dreams as an adult child.’ John Hemming, The
Conquest of the Incas (Harcourt Brace, 1970). The definitive
modern history of the Conquest, replacing earlier accounts by William
Prescott and Sir Clements Markham. John Hemming and
Edward Ranney, Monuments of the Incas
(Boston, 1982). Illustrated survey
of Inca ruins. J.H. Rowe, Machu Pijchu a la Luz
de Documentos del Siglo XVI (Kultur 4, Lima, March-April 1987) (also Historica 14 (1)
Lima 1990) On the discovery of
the document showing that ‘Pijchu’ was part of
Pachacuti’s estate. In addition to Lost
City of the Incas, Hiram Bingham wrote many other earlier accounts of his
exploration: Journal of an
Expedition across Venezuela and Colombia (New Haven 1909) Across South
America (New
York 1911) Inca Land (Boston 1922) Machu Picchu, a
Citadel of the Incas (New Haven 1930) Articles: The Possibilities
of South America History and Politics as a Field for Research (Bulletin of the International
Bureau of American Republics 26 vol 1) The Ruins of Choqquequirrau (American Anthropologist 12 1911) Vitcos the Lost Inca Capital (American Antiquarian Society
April 1912) In the Wonderland
of Peru
(National Geographic April 1913) The Ruins of Espiritu Pampa (American Anthropologist 16 1914) The Story of
Machu Picchu (National Geographic Feb 1915 Further
Explorations in the Land of the Incas (National Geographic May 1916) |
