Aztecs, Andes and Armadillos (eBook)

A Grand Expedition through Latin America

Red Baxter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
476 Seiten
Silverbird Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-6487976-1-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1980 escaping city life, Red Baxter joined an expedition by truck covering Latin America from California down to Cape Horn, and back up to the carnival at Rio. We met with harsh climates, heat, cold, and dust; also corrupt authorities, assaults, and maladies. The upside was forming enduring friendships, and enjoying remote locations, ruins, extreme peaks, deserts and lakes, glaciers, forests, and learning about the different local cultures. Best of all was the wildlife and the surprises each new day brought.As the going got tougher I left the others behind and noticed for the first time I was actually treading a built granite path, the Inca Trail proper, in an acute state of disrepair due to the disturbances of frosts and roots and animal hooves during centuries of abandon. The trail was very crooked and stepped in places, following the contours of the mountain up to a high ledge, a position of natural advantage over all the valley.While I climbed the irregular man-made stairway up the ledge, they advanced on round the mountain on their way to the second pass, but did not stop to study the Inca ruins along the way as I did. I sat on the ledge to wait for Frank and his newfound chum and looked around at the prolific and varied flowers. Thus it was I who made the discovery that the whole ledge was not natural at all but actually a built-up fortification such as a sentry-post overlooking the L- shaped valley.Within sight of the guardhouse ledge, about half an hour higher up the valley, was Runkuraqay, an Inca waystation, with a door at the back opening into two concentric circular walls, between which were rooms ten feet wide and long. Here (as everywhere that people camp) was a lot of garbage, the one unpleasant feature of the hike. This ruin is at 12,500 feet and I explored it until Frank caught up.

Inhalt

The members of the expedition    iv

Map, showing the route    v

Colour illustrations    begins after 252

Introduction    1

Preface    3

Part One     THE CENTRAL AMERICAN EXPEDITION

Chapter One     California    9

Chapter Two     Mexico    13

Chapter Three     Belize    39

Chapter Four     Guatemala    43

Chapter Five     Honduras    65

Chapter Six     Nicaragua    69

Chapter Seven     Costa Rica    75

Chapter Eight     Panama    81

Part Two     THE SOUTH AMERICAN EXPEDITION

Chapter Nine     Colombia    91

Chapter Ten     Ecuador    113

Chapter Eleven     Peru    165

Chapter Twelve     Bolivia    253

Chapter Thirteen     Chile    269

Chapter Fourteen     Argentina (Southbound)    301

Chapter Fifteen     Fuegian Patagonia    337

Chapter Sixteen     Argentina (Northbound)    355

Chapter Seventeen     Paraguay    389

Chapter Eighteen     Brazil    399

Suffix    435

Index    437

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.2.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Baja • cape horn • Corruption • exploration • Hispanic • Latin America • spanish america • transcontinental • Travel
• ISBN-10: 0-6487976-1-9 / 0648797619
• ISBN-13: 978-0-6487976-1-6 / 9780648797616