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

by Mark Adams

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR

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 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.

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?
  • ISBN10 0525952241
  • ISBN13 9780525952244
  • Publish Date 3 November 2011 (first published 1 June 2011)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 5 February 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint E P Dutton & Co Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 340
  • Language English