Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu
by
Amy Cox Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed a by few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation...