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A review by takeahike
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
4.0
This book is a number of things; it's an historical telling of Machu Picchu, its conquering by Spain's Pizarro; its discovery (of sorts) by Hiram Bingham III; it's an historical telling of Hiram Bingham the Yale professor, explorer, author and politician and it's a humorous travelogue, a telling of a modern day exploration of the original route of Bingham and then later, walking the Inca Trail.
All told, a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Mark Adams' self-deprecating humor had me laughing out loud at times. His Australian guide, John Leiver, suffers a severe eye injury (the eyeball actually bled!), and while John is pretty stoic about the whole thing, Mark believes that if it were he who'd suffered the same injury: "I suspect that I'd have been forcibly immobilized and given an injection of morphine that William Burroughs might have waved off as too risky."
When John finds he didn't have his knife and Mark is able to come to the rescue, John remarks, "That's good preparation, Mark. Nice sharp blade on it, too." Mark then writes: "It was, I'm not ashamed to admit, one of the proudest moments of my life."
If Machu Picchu interests you at all, you will enjoy this book.
All told, a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Mark Adams' self-deprecating humor had me laughing out loud at times. His Australian guide, John Leiver, suffers a severe eye injury (the eyeball actually bled!), and while John is pretty stoic about the whole thing, Mark believes that if it were he who'd suffered the same injury: "I suspect that I'd have been forcibly immobilized and given an injection of morphine that William Burroughs might have waved off as too risky."
When John finds he didn't have his knife and Mark is able to come to the rescue, John remarks, "That's good preparation, Mark. Nice sharp blade on it, too." Mark then writes: "It was, I'm not ashamed to admit, one of the proudest moments of my life."
If Machu Picchu interests you at all, you will enjoy this book.