A Traveler’s Guide to El Dorado & the Inca Empire by Lynn Meisch

A Traveler’s Guide to El Dorado & the Inca Empire

by Lynn Meisch

Penguin Books, 1984, [Revised], ISBN 0140466398, lightly illustrated with black and white illustrations in text, illustrated two-page title page, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing, creasing and small tears to edges and corners, previous owners inscription on inside front cover, highlighting to some pages (see photographs)

“Lynn Meisch became interested in Pre-Columbian cultures while camping in Mexico and Guatemala.  After obtaining an M.A. degree in Latin American humanities, she made several trips to South America, in search of adventure and to collect Andean textiles and film traditional music and dance.  She has travelled in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia by plane, train, bus, truck, car, boat, and on foot and horseback.  A spinner, weaver, writer, and photographer, Ms Meisch lives in San Francisco when she is not doing textile research or leading treks in the Andes.  Following the completion of this book, she was awarded both a Fulbright fellowship and an Institute for Intercultural Studies fellowship to research, photograph, and film indigenous spinning, weaving, and costumes in southern Ecuador.  In 1981 and 1982 she had an International American Foundation fellowship to document the effect of tourism on traditional textiles in Tarabuco, Bolivia, where she also collected weavings for the Museo Nacional de Etnograffa y Folklore in La Paz and for the Textile Museum in Washington D.C.”