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Hiram Bingham is the generally recognised as the discover of Machu
Picchu, alsthough other Europeans have claim to have seen it
earlier. This is his record of the exploration that led to Machu
Picchu.
First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the
discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. In 1911 Hiram
Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set
out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital
city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of
doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved
ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet
above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were of
white granite, exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man.
Bingham had not, as it turned out, found Vilcabamba, but he had
nevertheless made an astonishing and memorable discovery, which he
describes in his bestselling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS.
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