Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 127325Title: Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a TimeAuthor: Mark AdamsNarrator: Andrew GarmanFormat: UnabridgedLength: 10:09:36Language: EnglishRelease date: 05-18-12Publisher: Recorded BooksGenres: Biography & Memoir, Essays & Travelogues, South AmericaSummary: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. 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?Contact: [email protected]

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