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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the Peruvian folktale in which Fox and Mole try to climb to the moon on a rope woven of grass.
Una adaptaci�n del cuento folkl�rico peruano en que un zorro y un topo intentan a subir a la luna por un lazo de hierba.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
One of the world's most splendid - and most mysterious- civilizations comes vividly to life in this anthology of 26 myths and legends, gathered from the 16th century chronicles of missionaries and conquistadores and from the reports of folklorists working in remote Andean villages of the Andes. The creation of the world, the rise of the Inca empire, the great wars of expansion, omens of doom, and the Spanish Conquest are among the themes woven into...
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...