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Jungle paths and Inca ruins /

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Author / Creator:	McGovern, William Montgomery, 1897-1964.
Imprint:	New York & London : Century Co., [©1927]
Description:	xi, 526 pages frontispiece (portrait) plates, maps (1 folded) 23 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Century vagabond books [of travel] Century vagabond books.
Subject:	Indians of South America -- Amazon River Valley. Incas. Antiquities. Incas. Indians of South America. Amazon River Valley. Peru -- Antiquities. Amazon River Valley. Peru.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1971076

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Notes:	Also issued online.
Summary:	The beginning of the expedition -- The gateway to the Amazon -- Manaos, the pearl of the jungle -- The river of vanished glory -- In the pioneer country -- Beyond the last outpost of civilization -- Life among the Indians -- A feast of welcome -- Snakes - and Indian costumes -- Conference - and a peace pipe -- A jungle king -- The Beast Men of the jungle -- Initiation into the holy of holies -- Into hostile territory -- Vampire bats -- Hunting with poisoned arrows -- Wives, slaves, and kings -- The pageant of the demons and of sex -- Cannibalistic orgies -- Danger from beast and man -- The march through the jungle -- The land of naked women -- A meeting with outlaws -- The mysteries of birth and death -- Da Silva makes the supreme sacrifice -- The return to civilization -- To the head-waters of the Amazon -- Scaling the Andes -- Over the passage to the City of the Kings -- In the highlands where the Incas held sway -- The capital of the Sons of the Sun -- The pageant of history told in stone -- The origin of the Incas -- The city of our lady of peace -- A center of Pre-Inca civilization -- A brush with Chileans and with ladies of ill fame -- Grave-snatching amid Inca and pre-Inca ruins -- Wherein a buried city comes to light.
Other form:	Online version: McGovern, William Montgomery, 1897-1964. Jungle paths and Inca ruins. New York & London, Century Co. [©1927]

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