title: Lost City of the Incas. The Story of Machu Picchu and its Builders
author:  Hiram Bingham 
description: Hugh Thomson, the editor of this edition, is a travel writer and documentary film maker living in Bristol. His first book, The White Rock, is published by W&amp;N in July 2001.
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  ##### Praise for _Lost City of the Incas_
  
  
  ‘Machu Picchu was to Hiram Bingham the crowning of all his purest dreams as an
  adult child’
  
  
  ###### Che Guevara
  
  
  ‘A handsome edition complete with Hugh Thomson’s fine introduction and superb
  photographs; it is the classic adventure’
  
  
  ###### _Irish Times_
  
  
  ‘Bingham catalogues his finds with admirable concision, and indulges his wide
  interests, revealing little-known facts about the Incas – their sophisticated
  system of roads and runners allowed fish to be caught in the Pacific and
  served fresh at the Inca’s Andean table. He captures the majesty of the
  architecture in its dramatic and wild surroundings and Hugh Thomson has
  illustrated the book beautifully from Bingham’s innumerable photographs’
  
  
  ###### _Literary Review_
  
  
  ‘Anyone who has been to Machu Picchu must read Hiram Bingham’s classic tale of
  discovery, _Lost City of the Incas_ ’
  
  
  ###### _Wanderlust_
  
  
  ##### By Hugh Thom