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Mighty in the Mountains. So adapted, Andean man can perform amazing quantities of work at altitudes where non-adapted lowlanders fall gasping and retching. The somber-eyed, long-exploited descendant of the Incas is in fact a sort of superman. "After eight hours' hard work in mines at more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Living Superman | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The little village, perched on the lip of a river gorge, was a bright little place with a steepled church and red-roofed houses. Because such surrounding peaks as snowcapped Karwarasu act as sounding boards for the hot springs that gurgle intermittently in the neighborhood, the Incas had named the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake from Above | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Many scholars think that it was built as an impregnable fortress to defend the Inca empire's eastern approaches. Bingham has a different theory, which he develops in his forthcoming book Lost City of the Incas (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $5).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Explorer's Return | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

The Theory. Bingham is convinced that the city he found is older, perhaps a thousand years older, than Cuzco, which dates from about 1100. To this spot, he believes, the pre-Inca ruler Pachacuti retreated before Amazonian hordes. On the mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Explorer's Return | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. . . . It had been woven of osier by the Incas more than a century ago. . . . St. Louis of France protected it. . . . It was unthinkable that it should break.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: The Bridge | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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