Monday, July 18, 2011

Machu Picchu 100 Years: Summit of the Empire by Walter H. Wust

July 18, 2011, South Amboy, NJ.

Paperback 2011, 80 pages.

We bought this book at Cusco for Sol 40 (about $15). It was for sale at the Lima airport for Sol 100, so it was a bargain.

Mainly a picture book with four sections: The Discovery, Treasures in the Mountains, A Walk with the Incas, and The Tree of Life.

In a time span of 18 months, the author and other photographers spent quite a bit of time to capture these images. MP is so picture-perfect that we got some very good pictures, having spent only one day there. We are sure we can get pictures of similar quality if we could spend a couple more days there, although we are not quite ready to climb some of the nearby mountains to get some specific shots.

Nice coffee table book.