Turn right at Machu Picchu : rediscovering the lost city one step at a time / Mark Adams
- Bib ID:
- 6153132
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Adams, Mark, 1967-
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2013, ©2011
- 333 p., [16] p of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781922079954
- Summary:
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What 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 archaeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer's perilous path in search of the truth-except Adams had 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's 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?
- Notes:
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- Originally published: New York : Dutton, c2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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