Lost Realms of Gold: South American Myth

by Tony Allan

Book Overview

Focusing on both the ancient (Inca) and living (Yanomami) cultures of South America, this volume captures the South American mythmakers' fascination with shape shifting and magic. Includes the tale of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0705435830
• ISBN13: 9780705435833
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Historical/Mythological Book. It Just Rocks!!

This book is a great cross reference between both reality and fiction. The stories presented by Lost Realms give the myth of The Incas as well as provide a large amount of historical as well as archaelogical information about their culture then and now. The book also does a great job of composing a fluent and entertaing air that keeps the reader interested. The book is as well simply a marviously brilliant book for its amazing ability to tie together cultures as well as present universal and primal myths of the world so clearly. An amazing and elaborate work yet easy for anyone to understand "Lost Realms of Gold" is a joy to read as well as to browse. I would recommend all other books in the Time-Life "Myth and Mankind" series; which do a superb job of tying in the major cultures of the world together.