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Turn Right At Macchu Picchu (2000)

by Mark Adams(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Penguin Group

review 1: The best amateur travel books focus on the place and the native people and make themselves just enough of a character to give the audience perspective. This book is no exception. Turn Right weaves together tales about various "discoveries" of Machu Picchu and lost Inca civilizations - Pizarro's conquest in the 1500s, Hiram Bingham III's expedition in the early 1900s, and the author and his companion's modern day journey through Peru.
review 2: In TURN RIGHT AT MACHU PICCHU, Mark Adams parallels his duffer-turned-explorer story with that of Hiram Bingham III, the American who brought the tale and speculations regarding this remote Incan city to the world. Intrepid explorers were plentiful at the beginning of the 20th century and Bingham's various expeditions i... morento the rugged mountains of Peru captured the imagination of armchair adventurers around the globe. Bingham's exploits read like National Geographic stories (minus the stunning photographs) and, in fact, Bingham's Machu Picchu narratives might have contributed to the growth of the popular magazine with the yellow cover. Adams sprinkles his book with a winking humor and the reader comes to appreciate the author's company as the parallel tales unfold: Bingham's at the beginning of the 20th century, populated with tomb robbers, Amelia Earhart, Theodore Roosevelt and the possible inspiration for Indiana Jones in tandem with Adams' encounters with the flamboyant wife of a South American dictator, a reclusive Bingham detractor and an Australian guide who becomes the author's friend. Adams marches the reader through the Peruvian jungles, learning the hard way to wear two pairs of socks and the value of many water bottles. And the reader beholds the wonder of a civilization, steeped in astronomy and a rugged esthetic appreciation, emerging from the Peruvian wilderness. less

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