National Geographic, the Incas

série: Tintin, étude
dessinateur / scénariste: Collectif
éditeur: Nat Geo EO 1938
genre: Etude
classement: biblio1
date: 1938
format: broché
état: BE+
valeur: 10 €
critère: **
remarques: National Geographic magazine No. 2, February 1938

with three titles:
1/ castles and progress in Portugal
2/ the rise and fall of Nanking

and 3/ the Incas: empire builders of the Andes
- of Quechua origin, the building of the Inca realm,
- the Inca masonry: centuries have passed,
but Inca walls (like the Egyptian ones) still stand
- the Incas, sons of the sun
- the llama which in protest ejects from its mouth
"a wonderful stinking water" as explained by an explorer
- llamas and their longer-wooled relatives: the alpacas
- the high priests of the sun, the snake-dancing,
- Cuzco, ancient capital of the Incas
- the temple of Pachacamac with the golden image of the sun
where mummies have been found
- the ruins of the citadel of Sacsahuaman
- the citadel of Machu Picchu uncovered in 1912
- the habit of chewing the leaves of the coca shrub is
widespread among Indians of the Andes to increase
their physical endurance (cocaïn being extracted from coca)

enclosurs
- cover of national geo no 2 February 1938
- three Inca noblemen in discussion on the road
painting by H.M. Herget
- inca prince on the throne with priests and soldiers
painting by H.M. Herget
- view 1938 of Machu Picchu
discovered 1912 by the expedition of Hiram Bingham


further commentaries by Philip Ainsworth Means
and paintings by H.M Herget

commentaires et illustrations dont s'est grandement inspiré Hergé
pour son histoire du temple du soleil
principalement pour les personnages et leurs costumes
couvertures:
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