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

The first-ever account of adventurer Hiram Bingham's search for the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Bingham's dispatches cast him as a romanticized hero and revealed the lost city to the Western world. The reader is taken into the heart of Peru's past to relive the story of the Incas, and the exhilarating recovery of their final cities.