The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy-Third Meridian (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The geographic work of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911 was essentially a reconnaissance of the Peruvian Andes along the 73rd meridian. The route led from the tropical plains of the lower Umbamba southward over lofty snow-covered passes to the desert coast at Camana. The strong climatic and topographic contrasts and the varied human life which the region contains are of geo graphic interest chiefly because they present so many and such clear cases of environmental control within short distances. Though we speak of 'isolated' mountain communities in the Andes, it is only in a relative sense. The extreme isolation felt in some of the world's great deserts is here unknown. It is there fore all the more remarkable when we come upon difierences of customs and character in Peru to find them strongly developed in spite of the small distances that separate unlike groups of people.

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