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The Andes and the Amazon : life and travel in Peru
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- Creator
- by C. Reginald Enock, F.B.G.S
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1907
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- xvi, 379 pages, 56 unnumbered leaves of plates (some color) : illustrations, map (folded), portraits ; 24 cm
- OCLC
- ocm02999788
- "Printed in Great Britain."
- "With a map, four coloured plates, and fifty-eight other illustrations."--T.p.
- Includes index.
- Introduction -- The Andes -- Peruvian travel -- The Upper Marañon -- Region of the Upper Marañon -- Life in the cities of the Andes -- The regions of Sandia and Carabaya, and Lake Titicaca -- Huancavelica and adjoining departments -- The Peruvian Indians of the Andes -- The church in Peru -- The high Andean plateaux -- Ascents of snow-capped summits and peaks -- Mineral wealth -- The Inca civilisation -- The Inca ruins -- The ruins of Huanuco Viejo -- The Inca roads -- The Inca civilisation in the Amazonian forests -- The Montaña and the Amazon -- India rubber -- The Peruvians -- Lima -- Pirates and buccaneers ; Earthquakes and tidal waves -- Colonisation, commerce, railways -- South American relations