Thomas Besom

Child of the Snows

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Produktbeschreibung

"Anthropologist Thomas Besom's historical novel traces the last year in the life of a 16th century Inkan child chosen for ritual sacrifice. Accompanied by his parents, priests, and administrators, K'uchi-Wara walks from his alpaca-raising home village through many parts of the empire to the mountain chosen for his sacrifice. He sees cities and temples, arid cultures and fertile, makes friends with camel drivers and other "chosen" children, while his parents grow increasingly certain that they cannot stop the display of Inkan power which the ritual embodies. The novel is rooted in the 1954 discovery of a child's body entombed on Cerro El Plomo near Santiago, Chile"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Golden Antelope Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781952232626
• ISBN-10: 1952232627
• Artikelnr.: 62920565

Autorenporträt

Thomas Besom is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University in upstate New York. For thirty-five years, he has been researching human sacrifice and mountain worship in the Andes of South America during the Inka period. To better understand these practices, he has studied both ethnohistoric documents--records relating to the Inkas that were penned by Spanish sources in the 16th and 17th centuries--and archaeological materials. When not doing research and writing, Thomas Besom likes to make art; he has produced sculptures in bronze, steel, wood, stone, plaster, and even plastic. He also enjoys hiking, mountaineering, canoeing, and traveling. He has lived in and visited more than thirty nations around the world.