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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and descriptive text provide information on the people, cities, culture, food and drink, trade, gods and goddesses, clothes, sports and games, and other aspects of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations.
Author
Series
Earth chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors came to the New World in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Instead, they encountered inexplicable phenomena that have puzzled scholars and historians ever since: massive stone edifices constructed in the Earth's most inaccessible regions . . . great monuments forged with impossible skill and unknown tools . . . intricate carvings describing events and places half a world away. Who were the bearded...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by AOL Time Warner Book Group
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"His imagination captured by the account of a sixteenth-century Spanish monk who reported that the Incas "flew like birds" over the jungle and by tales of flying in Peruvian folklore, the author sets out to discover whether the ancients really were airborne - or experienced flying by other means. A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood on it are his only clues when he begins his quest for the Incas' secret.".
"But soon he's trekking...
7) Excavation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting; where earth-shattering discoveries -- and wealth beyond imagining -- could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. Here where the perilous journey ends, in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis; something created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous. Something terrifying.
8) The Incas
Author
Publisher
Thomson Learning
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Through photographs of artifacts, the reader will explore the beginning of the Inca empire to the death of its last great ruler, Huayna Capac, in 1525.
9) Evil Star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
11) The Inca
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Language
English
Description
Traces the rise of the Incan civilization with emphasis on their culture, social structure, government, economy, and the fatal encounter with the Spanish conquistadors which brought about the end of their society.
Author
Publisher
Lorenz Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The awe-inspiring history, legends, myths and culture of the Inca Empire, whose inhabitants were known as the people of the sun. Examine the many tribes and cultures of South America: from the ancient Paracas, Chavin, Nazca and Moche to the Tiwanaku, Wari, Chimu and Inca.
17) The Incas
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
See through cutaways, featuring acetate layers that can be peeled back to move from outside to inside structures, mark a colorful journey through the wonders of daily life in the Inca Empire.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1991
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Peters has done a prodigious amount of work i reconstruction the history of one of the most interesting peoples inhabing the Americas, and one of the least known, the Incas of Peru. Using this knowledge brilliantly, he has written a beautiful, tragic, and heroic account of theri last years, from 1511 to 1530, when these superior Indians were overwhelmed y Spanish conquerors." James A Michener.