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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2015
      November 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139962650
      9781108078788
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139962650
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 444 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Archaeology of The Americas, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Historical Geography, Asian Studies, History, Archaeology, Latin American History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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    Subjects:
    Archaeology of The Americas, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Historical Geography, Asian Studies, History, Archaeology, Latin American History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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    Clements R. Markham (1830–1916) began his career in the Royal Navy, sailing to South America, learning Spanish, and participating in the Arctic search for Sir John Franklin. In 1852, determined to succeed as an explorer and geographer, he travelled to Peru and visited the site of the ancient city of Cuzco, previously little known in Europe. Published in 1856, this is Markham's lively account of his travels. In his description of arriving in Panama we see a picture of the mid-nineteenth-century eagerness to explore (or exploit) Latin America. Markham's stay in Cuzco allowed him ample time to study the ruins and research the lost Inca civilisation, and also gave him his introduction to the properties of the cinchona plant, a source of quinine, which he later returned to collect and introduce to India, as described in his 1862 Travels in Peru and India (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection).

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