![]() ![]() ![]() Adams should not return to Peru or writing about it until he takes an Anthropology course, preferably several, and human rights course dealing with the indigenous peoples of Peru and their sad legal state. It was, however, fairly good as a hiking guide and as a guide to taking native peoples for granted. I'd love to read a real book on the importance of Machu Picchu and of travelling through Peru, and I really hope to hike the Inca Trail someday. This book left me with so many questions, but mostly if Mark Adams knew what privilege is and decided to ignore it, or was just blissfully ignorant. Why was he so fascinated with Bingham, explorer of 100 years ago, in the first place? The guy was a jerk. Why couldn't Adams censure Yale for keeping artifacts when they really, really shouldn't? Why did Mark Adams take so long to build up the beauty and importance of the Inca, only to never spend a sentence on the modern day Inca, those who descended from the original peoples by building lives in the jungle? The indigenous peoples of Peru knew of it the entire time. ![]() Why did it take 250 pages for Mark Adams to admit Machu Picchu was never lost? ![]()
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