Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press)
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Harkness, asked me when I was going on another expedition to South America and said he would be glad to contribute the cost of sending a geologist with me. That was an exciting idea. Just about that time I had been asked to review Professor Adolph Bandelier’s scholarly book The Islands of Titicaca and Koati. In one of his footnotes he casually remarked that he believed it ‘likely’ that Mount Coropuna in the Peruvian Coast range near Arequipa ‘is the culminating point of the continent’. He said t...hat ‘it exceeds 23,000 feet in height’, whereas Aconcagua is only 22,763 ft.
My father had taught me to love mountain climbing. He took me for my first steep climb when I was just four years old. Later we had climbed together a number of mountains in the suburbs of Honolulu. So I knew the thrill of that great and hazardous sport. My sensations when I read Bandelier’s footnote are difficult to describe for I did not remember ever having heard of Coropuna. On many maps it did not exist but I finally found it on one of Raimondi’s large-scale sheets and was thrilled to find that that great explorer gave its height as 8 metres higher than Aconcagua, which is actually the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Harkness, asked me when I was going on another expedition to South America and said he would be glad to contribute the cost of sending a geologist with me. That was an exciting idea. Just about that time I had been asked to review Professor Adolph Bandelier’s scholarly book The Islands of Titicaca and Koati. In one of his footnotes he casually remarked that he believed it ‘likely’ that Mount Coropuna in the Peruvian Coast range near Arequipa ‘is the culminating point of the continent’. He said t...hat ‘it exceeds 23,000 feet in height’, whereas Aconcagua is only 22,763 ft.
My father had taught me to love mountain climbing. He took me for my first steep climb when I was just four years old. Later we had climbed together a number of mountains in the suburbs of Honolulu. So I knew the thrill of that great and hazardous sport. My sensations when I read Bandelier’s footnote are difficult to describe for I did not remember ever having heard of Coropuna. On many maps it did not exist but I finally found it on one of Raimondi’s large-scale sheets and was thrilled to find that that great explorer gave its height as 8 metres higher than Aconcagua, which is actually the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere.
What to read after Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press)?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Bingham Hiram to read onlineMoreLess
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