Brilliant. An entertaining and funny way to learn about the Incas and Machu Picchu. Makes me want to go back :)
This is three stories in one - 1) a historical summation of Pizarro & the collapse of the Inca Empire, 2)a biographical account of Hiram Bingham, his journeys through Peru & 'discovery' of Machu Picchu, and 3)the authors account of his own journey through the Sacred Valley & along the Inca Trail....
Mark Adams writes tongue-in-cheek half the time, but produces a humorous, fact-filled history of Machu Pichu, with a particular focus on Hiram Bingham, the "explorer" from Yale who put it on the map for non Peruvians, and all the subsequent conflict about "discovery" and ownership of artifacts, e...