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A Journey In Time Peruvian Pageant
Author: Blair Niles

A JOURNEY IN TIME PERUVIAN KAMT By BLAIR HILES Author of Merit Paluiu, Day of Immense Suit, etc, Pbotqgnpbic fllustratfoitf ty Rokrt Niks, Jr, PUBLISHERS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY YORK Thr ItHlrK Affectionately dedicated to ROMA LVMAH NILES CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I PASSENGER BY Am 15 II Now, m LIMA 46 HI VAST CEMETERY 60 IV MUMMY NUMBER 94 71 V P... more »ARACAS 88 VI CONQUEST 94 VII INTO THE HIGH ANDES 120 VIII Draco REMEMBERS 129 IX TODAY IK THE SIERRA 161 X THE DIARY OF SERGEANT M0CABU u 199 XI THE VICEROYS MISTRESS 215 XII GALLANT MRS, PROCTOR 238 XIII VICTORY 280 XIV THE UNFINISHED CENTURY 297 INDEX 303 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The lonely Puna Frontispiece 3TACIHO FA6 White guano islands rise out of the sea 20 The crumbling walls of Chan-Chan 28 The Pacific breaks at the foot of barren cliffs 36 A portrait vase 44 The PLr a San Martin, Lima 68 A patio in Lima 76 El Misti 84 In the Sierra 92 A street in Cuzco 116 A Dominican monk admires the Inca stone-work of the Temple of the Sun in Cuzco 124 A descendant of the Incas 132 Llamas at the walls of Sacsahuamin 140 A man of the Sierra 148 A redoubt of the fortress of Saaahuamin 156 Pisac 164 Woman of Pisac 172 She wears her hair in the style of Chinchcros 196 A llama and his Indian 204 Prc-lnca stone-work at Olbntaytambo 212 The gorge of the Urubamba 220 Terraced streets in the city of Machu Picchu 228 The tower at Machu Picchu 236 The lofty sundial at Machu Picchu 244 The peak above Machu Picchu 252 La PemchoU 260 A balsa on Lake TJticaca 268 Wings over Peru 280 Sketch Map at Peru 300 PREFACE THIS is the very personal story of a journey in time I was at work on a novel of sixteenth-century Peru, and I wanted to know in the flesh those places identified with my hero and my heroine. The novel Day of Immense Sun covered the ten years immediately preceding the Spanish Conquest, and ended on the 15th of November, 1533, with Pizarro marching victorious into Cuzco, But this expedition in time proved so fascinating, so rich in the material of human living, that I found it impossible to limit it to the period of the novel And so I went back to the beginning, and traveled through the centuries in Peru down to the present day. Peruvian Pageant is the story of that experience-It has grown out of an impulse to share with the reader what is to me the greatest of all pleasures the fusing of a personal journey with the excitement of historical research in my chosen field of Spanish-America And in the telling of the tale I have not said that this or that is important ami must be included I have simply let memory wander at will through the centuries, selecting for me the events and emotions and personalities which stand out above all others Along the way there was everywhere kindness, for which I would express appreciation. And for the illustrations I am grateful to my husband, Robert Niles Jr., who is the Roberto of the story But there could have been no journey had there not txsen men to believe sufficiently in its object to make it possible Gratitude for the joy of this experience in Peru goc therefore to William Van Dusen, John Douglas MacGregor, Captain E, V Ricken backer, Ambassador Fred Morris Dearing, Elmer J. Faucett, and L BiaiKfeiL Bum Niua New York City, Jftitutfjr, 1937

ISBN-13: 9781406725834
ISBN-10: 1406725838
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Barzun Press
Book Type: Paperback
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