Turn Right At Machu Picchu
March 2013
Mark Adams / Text Publishing
Part biography of Machu Picchu explorer Hiram Bingham III, part self-deprecating travelogue, Turn Right At Machu Picchu sees the comfortably urban Adams taking leave from his role as a travel magazine editor and sweating his way through the high plains and lush humid jungle trails of Peru.
Joined by the caustic Australian tour guide John Leivers, who comes across as a fascinating polymath version of Mick Dundee, the pair follow in the footsteps of Yale adventurer Bingham, who famously alerted the scientific community to the existence of the mysterious lost Incan mountain citadel in 1911. Despite Bingham’s swashbuckling National Geographic Machu Picchu pictorial reports earning global acclaim (and eventually inspiring George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones character), subsequent tussles with Peruvian authorities over archaeological relics saw the 36-year-old branded a ‘huaquero’ – a grave robber. Gently informative and genuinely energising, Adams’ is an animated tale of the secrets of Machu Picchu and its 20th century rebirth.
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