Cargando…
Twelve millennia : archaeology of the upper Mississippi River Valley /
The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2003.
|
| Colección: | Bur oak book.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1587294397 9781587294396 |