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The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ruth M. Wright, Alfredo Valencia Zegarra, Alfredo Valencia Zegarra
Publisher: Johnson Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 8449
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Ill
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1555663273
Dewey Decimal Number: 918.537
EAN: 9781555663278
ASIN: 1555663273
Publication Date: February 2004
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Book Description
This revised edition includes newly discovered sites. New photos and maps with full-color illustrations of real life scences from National Geographic Magazine.
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 A great way to prepare your eyes for Machu Picchu April 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is fairly scholarly and serious, but I read it on a cross-country flight, using the detailed map insert to locate key items as I read. It made my enjoyment of the site itself many many times greater. Most local guides you hire at the site will only show you "Machu Picchu's greatest hits", and with the book's knowledge you can really appreciate what they are taking you to and can explore the rest effectively on your own. I was glad to have read and studied the book and its many illustrations ahead, however, as the weather was wet and using it as an on-the-spot guide wouldn't have worked so well.
A portable reminder January 19, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The reviews of this book on Amazon and elsewhere are comprehensive on its strengths and weaknesses. We used it to research our trip to Peru, consulted it on the ground at Machu Picchu even though we had a very good guide, and have re-read it as a memory aid on our return home.
We've heavily annotated Wright's book, both before and at Machu Picchu. It's been a great help in writing captions for our photographs.
My wife and I followed the same procedure with an excellent pocket sized guide to Pompeii years ago, where we broke away from the guided tour and spent hours wandering on our own. We carried the guide back to Italy a few years later, and added additional annotations on a second visit to the site. We've often re-read that little guide and re-lived those two excursions.
We hoped to watch a sunrise from the Guardhouse, "where a visitor can anticipate the sun with nothing more than a llama grazing in the distance. As the golden rays slip down Huayna Picchu, the buildings on the ridge below start to emerge from the shadows until Machu Picchu is presented in all its glory. It is a breathtaking, almost spiritual experience, and one you will never forget."
In the event, the valley was socked in and we climbed Huayna Picchu instead. From time to time, the clouds would clear and small parts of the site would appear. In my imagination, I was seeing Machu Picchu much as Hiram Bingham might have done, when much of the site was covered with vegetation.
Altogether, Wright has written an excellent and very useful guide to a wonderful site.
Robert C. Ross 2008
Very Useful for Self-Guided Tour July 18, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I spent 8 hrs visiting Machu Picchu following the guide. It was very detailed in describing each sector and the information given was enough to get a good understanding of the place. We walked to see the "Inca Bridge" and it described exactly what to expect and when to stop walking. I will recommend this book to anyone that is going to visit Machu Picchu. Great guide!!!
 A wonder of the world revealed May 12, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having walked the plateau and ruins of Machu Picchu over a two day period this book has served as a marvelous tool to relive the experience. The wealth of pictures, duplicating some of my own, and the text set a perspective for this wonder of the world. Subtitled as "A Self Guided Tour" the book does accomplish that role. If there is a negative to the book it rests with the fact that most of the photographs are shot in black and white. Even so, you will have no difficulty recognizing the sites as you stand before them.
very good guidebook March 13, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book was a great book to have while at the site and to refer back to upon return from the trip. It provides a great insight into the construction and detailing as well as closeby offsite areas that are important to know about.
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