...James Alexander Robertson Machu Picchu: A Citadel of the Incas. Report of the Explorations and Excavations made in 1911, 1912 and 1915 under the Auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society . By Bingham Hiram . ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1930 . Pp. xiii...

...John Howland Rowe Lost City of the Incas: The Story of Machu Picchu and Its Builders . By Bingham Hiram . ( New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce , 1948 . Pp. xx , 263 . $5.00 .) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...

...Sonia Alconini Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas . Edited by Burger Richard L. and Salazar Lucy C. . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 230 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright 2005...

...Izumi Shimada Machu Picchu: A Citadel of the Incas . By Bingham Hiram . New York : Hacker Art Books , 1979 . Illustrations. Map. Index . Pp. xiii , 244 . Cloth . $50.00 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Initialed notices were written by members...

...Mónica Salas Landa Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu . By Amy Cox Hall . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 267 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press...

...Christopher Heaney Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru . By Mark Rice . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2018 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 233 pp. Paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke...

... of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The transformation of the Inca Trail from overgrown path to global hiking destination began in the early twentieth century. Foreign and Peruvian scientific expeditions socially constructed the trail as natural and cultural heritage. State and corporate actors sought...

.... In addition to detailed descriptions and historical accounts of Cuzco and nearby sites, both prehistoric and contemporary, there is a major section on the well known archaeological site of Machu Picchu. However, only those sites which contain spectacular architectural features are mentioned. Judging...

..., and into the misty Andes. The saga begins with Columbus and concludes in 1911 with Bingham’s discovery of Machu Picchu. Hanson, a professional geographer, devotes the first three chapters to the historic and geographic setting, and to the native inhabitants. Later chapters treat Columbus; Vespucci; the conquests...

... travelers and scholars. Literally millions of visitors have made the journey to sites like Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, and Sacsahuaman. The new paperback is a lushly illustrated volume with more than 150 dramatic black-and-white photographs by Edward Ranney, supplemented by site plans and maps...

..., was found with jars and beakers and with adult and child companions. Other illustrations cover additional sites in both north and south, including the celebrated constructions at Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu. A number of photographs show the Inca roads, twenty feet or more wide, winding around slopes...

... the Peruvian coast, views of Machu Picchu and other archaeological sites, gold work from Colombia, and some Maya stela or stone carving. What is interesting about the specimens illustrated by Anton and Dockstader is that many of them have not appeared in print before, because they belong to private collectors...

... and local livelihoods. A manuscript on the cultural politics of heritage conservation and tourism in Machu Picchu is in progress. Another of her research projects analyzes historic and contemporary vicuña conservation and commodification. mark carey is assistant professor of history in the Robert D...

... in Cuzco and Lima, this massive book is a microhistory spanning several centuries of agrarian life and economy in Ollantaytambo. Located in the “Sacred Valley of the Incas,” roughly midway between Cuzco and Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo included by the sixteenth century a large mix of Inca nobles, relatives...

... in the text. One misses reference to any illustrations of the Inca site of Machu Picchu. This site presents us with significant data on Inca architecture, because it has not been built over like Cuzco, for instance, but rather remained unknown since Inca times until Hiram Bingham’s expedition discovered...

... the train to Machu Picchu) that takes one above the city to the ruins of Saqsaywaman and then to other mysterious rock formations. The guides have wonderful tales to appeal to the curious soul expecting New Age energy vibrations and landing towers for aliens. Those tales are also infuriating to serious...

...), and the author of Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru (full disclosure—the same individual writing this review) is incorrectly cited as Tim Rice. However, I want to emphasize that none of these errors hurt the argument of the book (or as Tim Rice might say, “Hakuna matata...

... the injustice of a system” that failed to meet this person’s needs (p. 70). The brutality of the Chuquicamata mines in northern Chile led the future guerrilla to conclude that communism “was no more than a natural longing for something better” (p. 78). Visiting the Machu Picchu ruins and, more importantly...

... attention. For most of the past century, Vilcabamba remained inaccessible to all but the most determined explorers, even as the development of the nearby site of Machu Picchu offered ever-growing numbers of tourists the opportunity to stage their own ersatz expeditions of discovery. In the past 20 years...

.... xv, 268 pp. Paper , $45.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 For all the attention that has been paid to the magnificent Inca site of Machu Picchu, we know surprisingly little about the intimate landscapes where life took place within Inca royal estates. Insightful, evocative...