Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 24, 2012
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?
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- Who it’s for
- An unseasoned traveler retraces a famous expedition, mixing humor, remote landscapes, and questions of discovery.
- Themes
- Andean exploration, Historical inquiry, Travel memoir
- Genres
- Travel in Peru, Exploration & Discovery, Adventurers & Explorers
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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.
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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?
Adventure, With Footnotes
An unseasoned traveler retraces a famous expedition, mixing humor, remote landscapes, and questions of discovery.
Come here for
- Peruvian travel with a wry, self-aware guide
- Machu Picchu’s contested discovery
Expect
- A perilous route through historic landscapes
- Humor alongside a search for the truth
Where it sits
| Exploration & Discovery | 38% |
|---|---|
| Travel in Peru | 33% |
| Adventurers & Explorers | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Travel Writing
- Travel in Peru
- Authors
- Mark Adams
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- April 24, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Andean exploration · Historical inquiry · Travel memoir
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs