Bibliography

• Lost City of the Incas – Hiram Bingham, Atheneum, New York, 1963. Famous account of his discovery.
  
  

• Portrait of an Explorer – Alfred Bingham, Atheneum, New York, 1963 Biography of Hiram Bingham by his grandson.
  
  

• The Conquest of the Incas – John Hemming, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, London, 1970. The classic account of the fall of the Inca empire.
  
  

• Machu Picchu Historical Sanctuary – Peter Frost & Jim Bartle
  
  

• Monuments of the Incas- Edward Ranney, New York Graphic Society, New York, 1982. Beautiful black – and -white photographs of the best – known Inca Structures, with text by John Hemming.
  
  

• Machu Picchu:  The Sacred Center – Johan Reinhard, Nuevas Imágenes, Lima, 1991. Theories and observations by a renowned Andean explorer and high-altitude archaeologist.
  
  

• The Inka Empire and its Andean Origins – Craig Morris & Adriana von Hagen, Abbeville Press, New York, 1993. Excellent overview of pre-Columbian Peru.
  
  

• Exploring Cusco- Peter Frost, Nuevas Imágenes, Lima, 1989. Guide to the Cusco region and Machu Picchu by the author of  this book.
  
  

• Sixpac Manco, Travels among the Incas – Vincent R. Lee, self – published, Wilson WY, 1985. Entertaining and informative account of the author’s researches in the Vilcabamba region.