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...
This was actually a good thing. Elizabeth Wayland Barber is an emerita professor of linguistics and archaeology at Occidental College and author of several books, including When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth, which she cowrote with her husband, Paul Barber. She was a...