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2) National Geographic investigates ancient Inca: archaeology unlocks the secrets of the Inca's past
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shows how ancient treasures help scientists today to piece together the puzzle of the Inca's past. Includes Inca pottery, textiles, and the mummy called the Ice Maiden.
Author
Publisher
Corimbo
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
Lucho, un niño que vive en los Andes, ayuda a su papá a pastorear las alpacas y ayuda con la cosecha de papas. Para él y su familia, la papa es uno de los alimentos más importantes. Cuando Lucho sueña de comer un helado, una de las alpacas le cuenta cómo hacer helado de papas.
Lucho is a young boy who lives with his family in the Andes mountains. He helps his father herding the alpacas and the whole family with the potato harvest. Potatoes...
5) Alive
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Now available in Spanish. On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the "Old Christians" rugby team--and many of their friends and family members--crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists. As he tended to his wounded teammates...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The ceque system of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, was perhaps the most complex indigenous ritual system in the pre-Columbian Americas. From a center known as the Coricancha (Golden Enclosure) or the Temple of the Sun, a system of 328 huacas (shrines) arranged along 42 ceques (lines) radiated out toward the mountains surrounding the city. This elaborate network, maintained by ayllus (kin groups) that made offerings to the shrines in...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Lea
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Este libro incluye las más bellas historias de tres deslumbrantes pueblos de nuestra América: los Incas, Mayas y Aztecas, que contaron el origen del mundo en que vivían y lo hacían en forma de cuento, para que estas historias pudieran ser narradas de padres a hijos, de abuelos a nietos, de gereración en generación. Estas leyendas se mantienen en la voz y en las historias que todavía hoy deslumbran a los niños. Relatadas de manera sencilla,...
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