Turn Right At Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Adams, Mark

 
9780525952244: Turn Right At Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time [Idioma Inglés]
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0525952241 ISBN 13: 9780525952244
Verlag: E P Dutton & Co Inc, 2011

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What happens when an adventure travel expert-who's never actually done anything adventurous-tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?

July 24, 1911, was a day for the history books. For on that rainy morning, the young Yale professor Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and encountered an ancient city in the clouds: the now famous citadel of Machu Picchu. Nearly a century later, news reports have recast the hero explorer as a villain who smuggled out priceless artifacts and stole credit for finding one of the world's greatest archaeological sites.

Mark Adams has spent his career editing adventure and travel magazines, so his plan to investigate the allegations against Bingham by retracing the explorer's perilous path to Machu Picchu isn't completely far- fetched, even if it does require him to sleep in a tent for the first time. With a crusty, antisocial Australian survivalist and several Quechua-speaking, coca-chewing mule tenders as his guides, Adams takes readers through some of the most gorgeous and historic landscapes in Peru, from the ancient Inca capital of Cusco to the enigmatic ruins of Vitcos and Vilcabamba.

Along the way he finds a still-undiscovered country populated with brilliant and eccentric characters, as well as an answer to the question that has nagged scientists since Hiram Bingham's time: Just what was Machu Picchu?

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Mark Adams is the author of the acclaimed history Mr. America, which The Washington Post named a Best Book of 2009. A writer for many national magazines, including GQ, Outside, and National Geographic, he lives near New York City with his wife and children.

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Verlag
E P Dutton & Co Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0525952241
ISBN 13 
9780525952244
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
340
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