Portrait of an Explorer – Hiram Bingham, Discoverer of Machu Picchu –

“… The book is based on Bingham’s private letters and journals, his published writings, the files of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911, and the author’s personal knowledge of his father. It opens with the discovery of the ruins of Machu Picchu on a beautiful mountain in the Peruvian Andes. …”