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Valverde's gold
in search of the last great Inca treasure
By Honigsbaum, Mark
- ISBN
- 978-0-37419-170-2
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 15, 2004
British journalist/historian Honigsbaum (The Fever Trail ) presents an intricate, intriguing account of a lost treasure of gold--the ransom, according to legend, demanded in 1532 by the Spanish for the release of the uncrowned Inca chief Atahualpa. When the Spanish treacherously murdered Atahualpa, his generals concealed the gold somewhere in the eastern Ecuadorian Andes. The treasure hoard was possibl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
