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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

Contributor(s): Adams, Mark (Author)

ISBN: 9780452297982

Publisher: Dutton

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Pub Date: April 24, 2012

Dewey: 985.37

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.77" H x 8.00" L x 5.29" W ( 0.64 lbs) 368 pages

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Description: Adams gives a 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?

Review Quotes: Praise for Turn Right at Machu Picchu

"[An] engaging and sometimes hilarious book."--The New York Times Book Review

"A serious (and seriously funny) travelogue, a smart and tightly written history, and an investigative report into perhaps the greatest archaeological discovery in the last century."--NationalGeographic.com

"An engaging, informative guide to all things Inca."--Entertainment Weekly

"Adams deftly weaves together Inca history, Bingham's story, and his own less heroic escapade....Those favoring a quirkier retelling [of Bingham's exploits] will relish Mr. Adam's wry, revealing romp through the Andes."--The Wall Street Journal

"Quite funny and unpretentiously well informed...The perfect way to acknowledge the lost city's one hundredth birthday."--Christian Science Monitor ("Editor's Choice")

"[An] entirely delightful book."--The Washington Post

"With a healthy sense of humor...Adams unearths a fascinating story, transporting his readers back to 1911, when Yale professor Hiram Bingham III hiked the Andes and stumbled upon on of South America's most miraculous and cloistered meccas."--NPR.org

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