![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dramatic and historic, this reads more like fiction than the modern standard-bearer of the epic tale of exploration and invasion, John Hemmings’s Conquest of the Incas. MacQuarrie writes a detailed and narrative history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca. Though his conclusions about what he’d found are inaccurate, one can’t help but be drawn into his very real-life jungle adventure. Another of his discoveries at Espiritu Pampa was confirmed as the lost city in the 1970s. With Machu Picchu, he’d absolutely found a lost city, just not the lost city. Bingham reconfirmed what he thought he’d found at Machu Picchu-the fabled last stronghold of the Inca. We are beginning our own list.īingham wrote his classic synthesis of adventure, discovery, and history in 1948, 37 years after his discovery of Machu Picchu and just a few years before his death. If you have any books you see missing, please let us know. ![]() National Geographic created the below list of books, separated into categories for easy reference. Some have even thanked their Alpaca guide with a copy of the book (Thank you Kathy). Of course Turn Right at Machu Picchu has been on best sellers list and is really popular with many travelling. National Georgraphic came out with another great list of suggested books to read before visiting or while visiting Machu Picchu. Amazing Alpaca guide Efrain receiving a copy of Turn Right at Machu Picchu as a gift from a happy client. ![]()
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