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| name = Inca Gold |
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| image = Inca Gold.jpg |
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| caption = 1st Edition Hardcover |
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| author = ] |
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| cover_artist = ] |
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| country = United States |
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| language = English |
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| series = ] Novels |
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| genre = ], ] |
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| publisher = ] |
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| release_date = June 2, 1994 1st Edition Hardcover |
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| media_type = Print (] & ]) |
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| pages = 539 pp (Hardcover edition) |
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| isbn = 0-671-68156-7 |
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| dewey= 813/.54 20 |
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| congress= PS3553.U75 I53 1994 |
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| oclc= 29877393 |
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'''''Inca Gold''''' is a novel written by ]. First published in ], it is the twelfth book in Cussler's ] series. |
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==Plot summary== |
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In 1532 a fleet of ships sails in secret to an island in the middle of an inland sea. There they hide a magnificent treasure more vast than that any Pharaoh would ever possess. Then they disappear, leaving only a great stone demon to guard their hoard. In 1578 the legendary ] captures a Spanish galleon filled with Inca gold and silver and the key to the lost treasure, which includes a gigantic chain of gold and a large pile of diamonds worth more than 200 billion dollars that belonged to the last Inca, a masterpiece of ancient technology so huge that it requires two hundred men to lift it. As the galleon is sailed by Drake's crew back to England, an underwater earthquake causes a massive tidal wave that sweeps it into the jungle. Only one man survives to tell the tale... In 1998 a group of archaeologists is nearly drowned while diving into the depths of a sacrificial pool high in the Andes of Peru. They are saved by the timely arrival of the renowned scuba diving hero Dirk Pitt, who is in the area on a marine expedition. Pitt soon finds out that his life has been placed in jeopardy as well by smugglers intent on uncovering the lost ancient Incan treasure. Soon, he, his faithful companions, and Dr. Shannon Kelsey, a beautiful young archaeologist, are plunged into a vicious, no-holds-barred struggle to survive. From then on it becomes a battle of wits in a race against time and danger to find the golden chain, as Pitt finds himself caught up in a struggle with a sinister international family syndicate that deal in stolen works of art, the smuggling of ancient artifacts, and ] worth many millions of dollars. The clash between the art thieves, the FBI and the Customs Service, a tribe of local Indians, and Pitt, along with his friends from NUMA, two of whom are captured and threatened with execution, rushes toward a wild climax in a subterranean world of darkness and death – for the real key to the mystery, as it turns out, is a previously unknown, unexplored underground river that runs through the ancient treasure chamber. The fallen are told to come back and haunt those who took their treasure. |
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==Chronology== |
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The plot revolves on the great ] civilizations in the Andes is used especially often in discussions of the great indigenous civilizations of the Americas, such as those of ] (], ], ], ]) and ] (the ] and ]). |
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*] gives to his son and heir ] a great gold chain, the most valuable treasure in the world. |
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*1532: ] kidnaps the Inca king ] and asks for a huge ransom. |
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*1533: Huascar sends his riches to the North, beyond the lands of the Incas and the Aztec, to a small island in Central America, to protect it from the brother in law. |
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The record of the journey is a ] (prototype form of written record by knot, held by a ]) held in a small jade box. |
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*1547: Spanish ]s discover the ]'s tomb in the city of ]. The armor of the mummy of Naymlap is an aid to discover the hidden treasure. |
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*1577: ] set sail for the Pacific with four ships. His will be the first English ship to pass through the ] via what will be called the ]. |
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*1578: The biggest treasure Spanish galleon of the Pacific Armada ], commanded by ] and armed with only 2 cannons, set sails from ] in the Incan lands to the colony in ], to pass the istmo by mule and send the richness to Siviglia. |
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The English Corsair galleon ], commanded by ] and armed with 18 cannons, approaches using a Spanish Flag and take over the Spanish galleon. The gold is taken on the English vessel and the religious articles, including the small jade box holding the quipu, is left on the Spanish one. |
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* The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, captured and commanded by Drake's second Thomas Cuthill, is stormed by a ] in the inland near Panama. |
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*1580: The Golden Hind returns to ] with the gold, Drake is dubbed Sir by ] |
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*1594: A ] expedition find in a village on the ] Thomas Cuthill. He speaks of Drake and the Conception, but is left as a mad man. |
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*1922: Tiapollo's armor is stolen from the ]. |
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*1939: ] publishes a book on the ancient path of the hunter for ]. |
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*1964: Two subs die exploring the ]. |
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*March, 1998 Steve 'Doc' Miller of the ] goes in Peru and is killed by Tupac Amaru. Cyrus Sarason of the ] takes his place. |
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*October 10, 1998: Dr. ], an expert in the ], and the operator Miles Rodgers, dive in the Cenote, and don't come back. |
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] military base asks for ] intervention. |
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A helicopter with ] and ] takes off from the NUMA ] vessel ]. |
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Tupac Amaru, with a band of ] (Peruvian Maoist guerrilla group), kidnaps the scientists and the students, and take them in the ] Valley, in the mythical death city ]. |
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*Dirk Pitt frees the prisoners and steals an ], an old soviet helicopter, to return to the Deep Fathom. |
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**],comes to the Deep Fathom and joins the party. |
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*October 15, 1998: Pitt and Shannon return to the Cenope to recover the corpse of Dr. Miller and find an explosive trap. |
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*] is asked to find evidence on the ''Concepcion''. He searches the archives at the ]. He contacts Frank Adams, the publisher of the book titled ''On the Trail of El Dorado'' by Nicholas Bender and obtains the author's phone number. Mr. Bender graciously offers to give St. Julien the journal of Cutthill |
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Dirk Pitt asks ] to find evidence of a Tsunami in the zone. |
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Pitt flies to Lima and receive an ] ] from the NUMA ship. The Geometrics G-8136 is an airborne proton magnometer, similar to the old G-801 Gunn is used to. Pitt hopes to be able to locate about 1 ton of iron in the wreck from a height of 50–75 meters. |
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Pitt, Giordino, and Gunn board a commercial flight to ], the capital of ]. A petrol company in debt to NUMA lends them a ''] ] ]'' helicopter, a two-turbine modern helicopter with no tail rotor. |
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They fly to the Bay of Caraquez and follow the ] inland, until they reach the rapids. Then they fly a grid composed by 2 km-long lines parallel to the 1578 coastline, from 2 km inland to 7 km, spaced 75m. |
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They find the galleon on the original grid at the 7th km, meaning the ] would have carried the 570-ton ship 7 km over the land. |
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Pitt goes down to retrieve the jade box while Gordino and Gunn refuel at the ] airport. Pitt finds an anchor, ] and ] artifacts, a 3 meter ], an oil lamp and finally the jade box. Pitt hops a flight to Dulles airport, Washington, where Deputy Loren Smith picks him up in a 1953] J2X. |
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Taken to NUMA, Yaeger uses his computer to analyze the information in the quipu. |
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The Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo is taken to the Logan Storage Company, a warehouse complex near Galveston, and taken to an underground complex under the Zolar International. |
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==Trivia== |
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*Dirk Pitt wants a ] Orchestra to play ] (''"Way down on the levee in old Alabamy..."''). |
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*The ''First Attempt,'' a yacht owned by the couple that rescues Dirk Pitt in the Gulf of California, is also the name of a NUMA ship found in '''''The Mediterranean Caper'''.'' |
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==External links== |
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* http://www.bc-alter.net/dfriesen/derrotero.html The Lost Treasure of the Inca |
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* http://ns.gov.gu/galleon/ on the real Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, which was sunken in 1638 with Chinese riches. |
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*http://www.geometrics.com/ Producer of the magnometer used to localize the galleon |
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{{Dirk Pitt novels}} |
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{{Clive Cussler}} |
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