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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 the West. 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 in his 1862 Travels in Peru and India (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection).

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• Plný název: Cuzco and Lima
• Podnázev: A Journey to the Ancient Capital of Peru, and a Visit to the Capital and Provinces of Modern Peru
• Autor: Clements R. Markham
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 444
• EAN: 9781108078788
• ISBN: 1108078788
• ID: 08013189
• Nakladatelství: Cambridge University Press
• Hmotnost: 570 g
• Rozměry: 215 × 140 × 26 mm
• Datum vydání: 13. November 2014

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