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Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe. Letter to a King; a Peruvian Chief’s Account of Life Under the Incas and Under Spanish Rule. New York: Dutton, 1978.

Guevara, Ernesto “Che.” The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey.

Heaney, Christopher. Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Hemming, John. Machu Picchu. New York: Newsweek, 1981.

Hemming, John. The Search for El Dorado. London: Joseph, 1978.

Hemming, John and Edward Ranney (photographer). Monuments of the Incas. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982.

Hergé. Prisoners of the Sun. Translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner. London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1962.

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon. New York: Morrow, 1936.

Lee, Vincent. Forgotten Vilcabamba: Final Stronghold of the Incas. Sixpac Manco Publications, 2000.

Lee, Vincent. Sixpac Manco: Travels Among the Incas. Self-published, 1985.

Lubow, Arthur. “The Possessed.” The New York Times Magazine, June 24, 2007.

Lumbreras, Luis. Peoples and Cultures of Ancient Peru. Translated by Betty J. Meggers. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1974.

MacLaine, Shirley. Sage-ing While Age-ing. New York: Atria Books, 2007.

MacQuarrie, Kim. The Last Days of the Incas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Magli, Giulio. “At the Other End of the Sun’s Path. A New Interpretation of Machu Picchu.” Accessed through the Web site arXiv.org.

Malville, J. McKim, Hugh Thomson and Gary Ziegler. “Machu Picchu’s Observatory: the Re-Discovery of Llactapata and its Sun-Temple.” Self-published, 2004.

Mann, Charles. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Knopf, 2005.

Markham, Sir Clements. The Incas of Peru. New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1910.

Matthiessen, Peter. The Cloud Forest. New York: Viking, 1961.

McBrian, William. Cole Porter: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1998.

McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1977.

McEwan, Gordon. The Incas: New Perspectives. New York, W. W. Norton, 2006.

Meadows, Anne. Digging Up Butch and Sundance. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Miller, Char. Fathers and Sons, the Bingham Family and the American Mission. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.

Mould de Pease, Mariana. “Un día en la vida peruana de Machu Picchu: avance de historia intercultural.” Revista Complutense de Historia de América, 2001.

Murúa, Martin de. Historia General del Perú. Edited by Manuel Ballesteros. Madrid: Historia 16, 1986.

Poole, Robert M. Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made. New York: Penguin, 2004.

Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1861. (First published in New York, 1847.)

Reinhard, Johan. The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2005.

Reinhard, Johan. Machu Picchu: Exploring an Ancient Sacred Center. Fourth revised edition. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (UCLA), 2007.

Savoy, Gene. Antisuyo: The Search for the Lost Cities of the Amazon. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.

Starn, Orin, Carlos Iván Degregori and Robin Kirk, eds. The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Theroux, Paul. The Old Patagonian Express. New York: Penguin, 1980. Thomson, Hugh. Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru. London: Wiedenfield & Nicolson, 2006.

Thomson, Hugh. The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2001.

Titu Cusi. A Sixteenth Century Account of the Conquest. Translation by Nicole Delia Legnani. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Valencia Zegarra, Alfredo. Machu Picchu: La Investigación y Conservación del Monumento Arqueólogo Después de Hiram Bingham. Cusco, 1992.

Vargas Llosa, Mario. Death in the Andes. Translated by Edith Grossman. New