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Imagine a secret so large, no one could see it-even if it was lying out in broad daylight! Such was the secret hidden in the Nazca desert of Peru. Here, ancient line drawings were so large that people couldn't see them from the ground. It was not until airplanes began to fly over that region that the great lines and figures could be viewed plainly. One of the first people to discover the Nazca Lines was a German mathematician named Maria Reiche. She was so fascinated by this place that she decided to live on the desert, where she spent most of the rest of her life, studying and mapping the Lines. Maria formed a theory about them that they are related to the placement of stars, the sun and the moon, but no one knows for sure how and why the Lines were made. One day maybe someone will finally unlock the mystery of the Nazca Lines. It could be you!

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"Anita Jepson-Gilbert is a poet and teacher who has taught English and ESL classes for many years in Colorado. Her interest in the Nazca Lines led her to read every book she could find about them, and they always referenced the research of Dr. Maria Reiche, a scientist and mathematician living alone on the Nazca desert, measuring and photographing the mysterious Lines. Before Dr. Reiche died in 1998, this author sent her own poem ""Maria and the Stars of Nazca,"" to her, for approval, which Anita soon received. A month later, Reiche's own book, Mystery on the Desert arrived, which contains perfect drawings of most of the Nazca images. Thus, all the animal geoglyphs depicted in this book are drawn to scale from Reiche's book.Then in 2003, this author flew to Peru to visit the Lines herself. She also met with Maria Reiche's closest friends, who could give her more details about Maria's life and her effort to protect the Lines and to have it claimed as a World Heritage Site. When this bilingual book was first published in 2004 with an English and Spanish audio CD, it received 1st Prize for Best in Children's Books and also 1st Prize for its Contribution to Literacy from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association."

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