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Article: A palace at the top of the world; The Incas may be gone, but their vistas still take our breath away.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 2, 2003
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Byline: Diana Muir
In the mountains of Peru, entire cities have been lost since they were abandoned by the last Incas five centuries ago. Hugh Thomson - young, British, and with no idea what he wanted to do with his life - found the idea of discovering one irresistible.
Thomson takes us with him on his "Exploration of the Inca Heartland," where he succeeds in putting several lost sites in their rightful places on the map. But the quest soon becomes far more ambitious than an effort to locate ruined cities by traversing roadless mountains in landslide country, or pushing through tropical forests so lush that a hiker can pass within a few feet of a large ...