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A Tale of Lost Treasure That Proves True |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Bart McDowell |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,053 Words, 6,368 Characters |
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VALVERDE'S GOLD: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST GREAT INCA TREASURE
By Mark Honigsbaum
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 348 pages
This treasure tale is true. And the treasure itself is dazzlingly documented, with words to whet one's greed.
Historians have long known that in the Peruvian Andes in the year 1532, Francisco Pizarro took prisoner the ruling Inca, Atahualpa, and demanded that his subjects pay a huge ransom in gold and silver--"more than fifteen thousand men could carry on their backs," it was reported. After the Indians paid much of the ransom, Pizarro murdered Atahualpa.
William Prescott describes the metalwork--"gob...
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...nibalism, so I am quite unsaddened.
The author has an animated way with characters he meets. The story comes into sharp focus as he and companions climb up and off into a forbidding part of the Andes. What do they find? Mostly, they find what the reader will find--a good adventure and perhaps an itch to go to Ecuador. With a pick, shovel, and Google.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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