Cuzco and Lima (Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reissue, 11/13/2014
EAN 9781108078788, ISBN10: 1108078788
Paperback, 444 pages, 21.5 x 14 x 2.6 cm
Language: English
Clements R. Markham (1830–1916) began his career in the Royal Navy, sailing to South America, learning Spanish, and participating in the Arctic search for Sir John Franklin. In 1852, determined to succeed as an explorer and geographer, he travelled to Peru and visited the site of the ancient city of Cuzco, previously little known in Europe. Published in 1856, this is Markham's lively account of his travels. In his description of arriving in Panama we see a picture of the mid-nineteenth-century eagerness to explore (or exploit) Latin America. Markham's stay in Cuzco allowed him ample time to study the ruins and research the lost Inca civilisation, and also gave him his introduction to the properties of the cinchona plant, a source of quinine, which he later returned to collect and introduce to India, as described in his 1862 Travels in Peru and India (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection).
1. Introductory
2. Journey to Cuzco
the coast
3. Journey to Cuzco
the sierra
4. Cuzco and the Incas
5. Cuzco and the Incas (cont.)
6. Quichua
the language and literature of the Incas
7. Inca Indians
their past and present condition
8. The montana of Peru
9. Lima
the Spanish viceroys
10. Lima
the Peruvian Republic
11. Lima
the modern literature of Peru, and state of society
Appendices
Index.