Hiram Bingham (1875–1956)
Auteur van Lost City of the Incas
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Fotografie: Congressional photo
Werken van Hiram Bingham
Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru (National Geographic Adventure Classics) (1922) 46 exemplaren
Across South America: An Account of a Journey from Buenos Aires to Lima By Way of Potosí, With Notes on Brazil,… (1976) 12 exemplaren
Residence of Twenty-One years in the SANDWICH ISLANDS 1847 : on the Civil, Religious and political History of those… 4 exemplaren
Residence of Twenty-One years in the SANDWICH ISLANDS 1848 : on the Civil, Religious and political History of those… 2 exemplaren
Residence of Twenty-One years in the SANDWICH ISLANDS 1855 : on the Civil, Religious and political History of those… 2 exemplaren
Livy: A History of Early Rome 1 exemplaar
The Journal of an Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia, 1906-1907: And Exploration of the Route of Bolivar's… (2015) 1 exemplaar
Machu Picchu. Lost city of the Incas 1 exemplaar
The alphabet 1 exemplaar
The Monroe doctrine, an obsolete shibboleth 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Bingham, Hiram
- Officiële naam
- Bingham, Hiram, III
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- BINGHAM, Hiram
- Geboortedatum
- 1875-11-19
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1956-06-06
- Graflocatie
- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Opleiding
- Yale University (BA|1898)
University of California, Berkeley (1900)
Harvard University (PhD|1905) - Beroepen
- academic
explorer
treasure hunter
senator - Organisaties
- Yale University
United States Senate
Republican Party
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Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press) door Hiram Bingham
Excellent. Part history, part adventure, part anthropological study, all well-written and engaging. The introduction provides helpful context about Hiram Bingham's writing, theories, and discovery.
Bingham is a good writer, the maps are decent (could provide a bit better detail!), and he does a good job of recapitulating the story of his involvement with Machu Picchu. I just don't get archeologists and their conclusions. The just make shit up whenever they cannot figure something out. I really love his conclusion on the obsidian pebbles....they are tally stones for those bringing alpaca wool to the Chosen Women. Huh? I will never give an archeological book a superior rating, but this was pretty good, nevertheless....… (meer)
FINALLY finished this book! I enjoy reading about early scientific explorations, and Bingham's search for ancient Inca cities that were mentioned in historical documents certainly qualifies. But this guy does NOT know how to tell a story. This book is a jumble of descriptions of historical records, travel preparations, natural history observations, and truly hair-raising travelogues. The difficulty in following the story was compounded by the hideously scanned electronic version from Google's Internet Library. If you want to read this, get your hands on a printed copy.… (meer)
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