The White Rock:
An Exploration of the Inca Heartland

(UK:  Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback / Phoenix paperback)

(USA:  Overlook Press hardback / paperback)

‘the long-awaited, definitive travel book on Peru.’

John Hemming, author of The Conquest of the Incas

 

The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The archetypal image is presented in the first few minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark: Harrison Ford escaping from a temple with a jewel in his hand, swinging through the air on a liana, avoiding poison arrows with a flick of his rawhide whip and an astutely angled jungle hat. Click here to read more...