Dramatic and historic, this reads more like fiction than the modern standard-bearer of the epic tale of exploration and invasion, John Hemmings's Conquest of the Incas.
MacQuarrie writes a detailed and narrative history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca. Though his conclusions about what he'd found are inaccurate, one can't help but be drawn into his very real-life jungle adventure. Another of his discoveries at Espiritu Pampa was confirmed as the lost city in the 1970s. With Machu Picchu, he'd absolutely found a lost city, just not the lost city.
Bingham reconfirmed what he thought he'd found at Machu Picchu-the fabled last stronghold of the Inca. Bingham wrote his classic synthesis of adventure, discovery, and history in 1948, 37 years after his discovery of Machu Picchu and just a few years before his death.
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