Mark adams machu picchu5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As the one-hundred-year anniversary of the “discovery” approached and Yale University prepared to finally return Peruvian artifacts Bingham had taken from the site, Adams proposed following in Bingham’s footsteps to wrestle with his legacy and see what had happened to these incredible places over the course of decades. Bingham’s star faded, however, when it was realized that the city was not at all lost and more or less everyone in the area knew about it and that Bingham had elided certain details in order to burnish his story. Written by journalist Mark Adams and published in 2011, it reflects on Hiram Bingham III’s famous journey into the wilderness of Peru and supposed discovery of Machu Picchu, a “lost” Incan city that briefly made Bingham one of the most famous explorers in the world. Turn Right at Machu Picchu is a hybrid book, part serious historical reflection and part travelogue. ![]()
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