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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9780452297982
Publisher: Plume Books
Language: English
Page Count: 336
Publication Date: 4/24/2012
Size: 8.04" l x 5.30" w x 0.84"
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Category Subject
Political Science Public Policy

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 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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