Turn Right at Machu Picchu
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Mark Adams
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIRWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the truth—except he’d written about adventure far more than he’d actually lived it. In fact, he’d never even slept in a tent.Turn Right at Machu Picchu is Adams’ fascinating and funny account of his journey through some of the world’s most majestic, historic, and remote landscapes guided only by a hard-as-nails Australian survivalist and one nagging question: Just what was Machu Picchu?
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Author
Mark Adams
Pages
352
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2011-06-30
ISBN
1101535407 9781101535400
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Fantastic read. If you're interested in Machu Picchu at all, this is a great book. You get to see the place through the authors eyes as he sees it for the first time. He also parallels it Bingham's adventures in Peru while he's experiencing similar things. Great pictures in there too."
Shane Dakan
"This is a well-written book that was performed expertly on Audiobooks by Andrew Garmin. It is funny, insightful and provides a Journey by a journalist from New York who retraces Hiram Bingam’s 1911 rediscovery of Machu Picchu. The use of foil characters like the well-travelled Australian and the references to 1911 timeframe (this was a potential inspiration for Indiana Jones) and the 1532 Pissarro timeframe enrich the voracity of Mark’s tail. I enjoyed this as I traveled to Peru"
Andy Hart