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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
Definitely great supplemental material while trekking the Inca Trail, though the author doesn't actually do the Inca Trail until the last... 20 or so pages of the book. I wish there was more information directly from the Inca's themselves, but unfortunately the Spanish destroyed essentially everything (they killed all the intellectuals first so we can't interpret any of their "writing" which was done using "khipus" -- strings of different materials with different knots, distances between knots and other rocks and stuff but we have no idea what they mean but definitely were used for very complex accounting and, in all likelihood, history). So reasonably but unfortunately we the way to see it is through the eyes of a white explorer. Thanks to this book, I had a lot of great context on the trail but it's hard to take all the terrible waste of the great Inca Empire (that only lasted 100 years). THANKS JENNY!!
Good read in learning the history of MAcchu Pichu and the Incas in Peru. Enjoyed reading about the trail and the trip to visit MP.
Discovered this while browsing e-books, much like Bingham discovered Machu Picchu. Good story, good writing. Makes me want to go on an adventure.
I really enjoyed this book. Nice mix of travelogue/biography/history and compelling.
I stopped reading this to go on my own adventure to Machu Picchu, will probably come back to it at some point. It was interesting, but a little slow.
I enjoyed this book of parallel journeys to Machu Pichu--one by Hyram Bingham in 1911 and the other by the author almost 100 years later. Adams has a nice way of blending history with his own experience and throwing in a dash of self-depracating humor. And who couldn't love John Leivers? Somehow, Adams managed to paint a nice picture of someone who really is a living stereotype (Crocodile Dundee meets Indiana Jones) and still make him seem, well, not a stereotype!
Would give this 3.5 stars if I could. Would have given it 4, but there were some tedious parts at times that I had to push through. Kind of like the Inca Trail itself!
Would give this 3.5 stars if I could. Would have given it 4, but there were some tedious parts at times that I had to push through. Kind of like the Inca Trail itself!
I liked it! I truly did. But I stopped caring about the book about half way through. :/
Didn't finish it because it was too boring... The parts where he discusses his own trek were interesting and I expected the history to be just as interesting but it wasn't.
Enjoyable and interesting...though I preferred his Alaska book a little bit more.