Hiram Bingham and the Dream of Gold

by Daniel Cohen

Book Overview

Hiram Bingham was the ideal explorer-adventurer--handsome, rich, intelligent, brave, and tough. His life seems like something out of film hero Indiana Jones's exploits in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The descendant of strong-willed missionaries, Bingham was born in Hawaii in 1875, At Yale he specialized in South American studies and became a college teacher. Gradually, the romance of the past took hold of his practical soul. Obsessed by the Incas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590773500
• ISBN13: 9781590773505
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: M. Evans and Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7