Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu

“This is a great book, which gives a very readable but very serious narrative of the last years of the Inca Empire, and the story of what happened to Machu Picchu as the Inca collapsed and fought on and survived for many years. It’s also a great narrative of who Hiram Bingham was, what his expeditions were like, and how Peruvians – particularly cusqueños – reacted to them. It ends with the fight over the archaeological remains of Machu Picchu that were at Yale.” Read more...

The best books on Machu Picchu

Mark Rice