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Reinhard, Johan.

Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden : my adventures on Ampato / Inca Ice Maiden - Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1998. - 48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Includes index.

Inca Mountains -- The discovery -- Down & dangerous -- Return to the volcano -- First lab discoveries -- To the United States.

A first-person account of the 1995 discovery of the over 500-year-old Peruvian ice mummy on Mount Ampato and a description of the subsequent retrieval and scientific study.

ISBN: 0792271424 9780792271420

LCCN: 97031291

Subjects--Personal Names:
Reinhard, Johan--Juvenile literature.
Reinhard, Johan.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Incas--Antiquities--Juvenile literature.
Ice mummies--Peru--Ampato, Mount (Arequipa)--Juvenile literature.
Archaeology--Methodology--Juvenile literature.
Incas--Antiquities.
Mummies.
Indians of South America--Antiquities.
Archaeology.
Inca Ice Maiden (Ice mummy)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Peru--Antiquities--Juvenile literature.
Peru--Antiquities.

LC Class. No.: F3429.3.M8 / R45 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 985/.019