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

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

<b>THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR<br><br>What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?<br><br></b>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.<br><br><i>Turn Right at Machu Picchu</i> 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 <i>was</i> Machu Picchu?