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    The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. II
    The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. I
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    The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Series

    By Victor Wolfgang von Hagen

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    About this series

    For centuries the strange, exotic civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas flowered in total separation from the rest of mankind. Then explorers stumbled on great pyramids and temples hidden in the forests of Guatemala and Yucatan, and fortress cities high up in the Andes, to find ‘things that have never been heard or seen before, or even dreamed about’ (Bernal Diaz).

    In The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, first published in 1960, Victor von Hagen describes the history and cultures of each of these early civilizations, drawing on a lifetime’s experience of their sites, archeology and artifacts. His detailed knowledge of their institutions, economic structures and religious practices enables him to reconstruct the pattern of their daily life, and to explore their distinctive achievements in, for example, engineering, commence and communications. The account is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, line-drawings, and reproductions from original prints.

    ‘The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas vividly fulfils the author’s aim “to take these people out of the flow of the purely archaeological and put them back into the human stream of life”.’—Daily Telegraph
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHauraki Publishing
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. II
    The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. I

    Titles in the series (2)

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      The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. I
      The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. I

      The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. I

      Victor Wolfgang von Hagen
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      For centuries the strange, exotic civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas flowered in total separation from the rest of mankind. Then explorers stumbled on great pyramids and temples hidden in the forests of Guatemala and Yucatan, and fortress cities high up in the Andes, to find ‘things that have never been heard or seen before, or even dreamed about’ (Bernal Diaz). In The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, first published in 1960, Victor von Hagen describes the history and cultures of each of these early civilizations, drawing on a lifetime’s experience of their sites, archeology and artifacts. His detailed knowledge of their institutions, economic structures and religious practices enables him to reconstruct the pattern of their daily life, and to explore their distinctive achievements in, for example, engineering, commence and communications. The account is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, line-drawings, and reproductions from original prints. ‘The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas vividly fulfils the author’s aim “to take these people out of the flow of the purely archaeological and put them back into the human stream of life”.’—Daily Telegraph

      For centuries the strange, exotic civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas flowered in total separation from the rest of mankind. Then explorers stumbled on great pyramids and temples hidden in the forests of Guatemala and Yucatan, and fortress cities high up in the Andes, to find ‘things that have never been heard or seen before, or even dreamed about’ (Bernal Diaz). In The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, first published in 1960, Victor von Hagen describes the history and cultures of each of these early civilizations, drawing on a lifetime’s experience of their sites, archeology and artifacts. His detailed knowledge of their institutions, economic structures and religious practices enables him to reconstruct the pattern of their daily life, and to explore their distinctive achievements in, for example, engineering, commence and communications. The account is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, line-drawings, and reproductions from original prints. ‘The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas vividly fulfils the author’s aim “to take these people out of the flow of the purely archaeological and put them back into the human stream of life”.’—Daily Telegraph

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      The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. II
      The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. II

      The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas Vol. II

      Victor Wolfgang von Hagen
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      For centuries the strange, exotic civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas flowered in total separation from the rest of mankind. Then explorers stumbled on great pyramids and temples hidden in the forests of Guatemala and Yucatan, and fortress cities high up in the Andes, to find ‘things that have never been heard or seen before, or even dreamed about’ (Bernal Diaz). In The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, first published in 1960, Victor von Hagen describes the history and cultures of each of these early civilizations, drawing on a lifetime’s experience of their sites, archeology and artifacts. His detailed knowledge of their institutions, economic structures and religious practices enables him to reconstruct the pattern of their daily life, and to explore their distinctive achievements in, for example, engineering, commence and communications. The account is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, line-drawings, and reproductions from original prints. ‘The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas vividly fulfils the author’s aim “to take these people out of the flow of the purely archaeological and put them back into the human stream of life”.’—Daily Telegraph

      For centuries the strange, exotic civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas flowered in total separation from the rest of mankind. Then explorers stumbled on great pyramids and temples hidden in the forests of Guatemala and Yucatan, and fortress cities high up in the Andes, to find ‘things that have never been heard or seen before, or even dreamed about’ (Bernal Diaz). In The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, first published in 1960, Victor von Hagen describes the history and cultures of each of these early civilizations, drawing on a lifetime’s experience of their sites, archeology and artifacts. His detailed knowledge of their institutions, economic structures and religious practices enables him to reconstruct the pattern of their daily life, and to explore their distinctive achievements in, for example, engineering, commence and communications. The account is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, line-drawings, and reproductions from original prints. ‘The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas vividly fulfils the author’s aim “to take these people out of the flow of the purely archaeological and put them back into the human stream of life”.’—Daily Telegraph

    Author

    Victor Wolfgang von Hagen

    Victor Wolfgang von Hagen (February 29, 1908 - March 8, 1985) was a world-famous explorer, naturalist, and ethnographer who was involved in continuous fieldwork for more than thirty years. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, his career began with the Mexico Expedition of 1931-1933 and led to the Roman Roads Explorations of Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Arabia, and Petra. It was for Central and South America, however, that he developed a special interest during these years; he discovered the ‘extinct’ tribe of Jicaque Indians in Honduras, and undertook explorations of Ecuador, the Amazon, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands (1934-1936), Honduras, the Mosquito Coast, and Guatemala (1937-1938), Panama and Costa Rica (1940), and Colombia and Peru (1947-1948). Victor von Hagen is the author of more than 50 books, among them Ecuador the Unknown (1939); The Riches of South America (1941); The Aztec and Maya Papermakers (1943); Jungle in the Clouds (1945); Maya Explorer, the life of John Lloyd Stephens (1947) El Dorado, The Golden Kingdoms of Colombia (1951); The Four Seasons of Manuela (1952); The Desert Kingdoms of Peru (1965); and The Roads that Led to Rome (1967). He died in Italy in 1985 at the age of 77.

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