Two Men and a Mule: The Last City of the Incas (Kindle Single)

Two Men and a Mule: The Last City of the Incas (Kindle Single)

The Andes have become a symbol of a â€˜lost worldâ€™ of Inca wisdom and cities in the clouds, of the Celestine Prophecy and Indiana Jones â€“ it needs two men (and their mule) to cut their way through the mystique with some machetes and wit.

Renowned explorers Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen join forces with their trusty mule Washington, to journey to the extraordinary â€˜Last City of the Incasâ€™, EspÃritu Pampa. Deep down in the Amazon, this is where the Incas escaped when on the run from the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th Century, and where the very last Inca emperor, Tupac Amaru, was finally captured and brought back to be executed in the main square of Cuzco.

This arduous trek takes them down off the steep slopes of the Andean cloud-forest into the steamy jungle and down stone-laid Inca path as they trek to the last city of the Incas - Espiritu Pampa â€“ â€˜the Pampa of Ghostsâ€™.

Hugh Thomson is the author of a series of acclaimed travel books, including The White Rock and Nanda Devi. His memoir Tequila Oil, about getting lost in Mexico when he was eighteen, was serialised by the BBC and he has led many adventurous expeditions to Peru in search of Inca ruins.

In The Green Road into the Trees: A Walk through England, Hugh wrote for the first time about his own country: 'An immensely enjoyable book: curious, articulate, intellectually playful and savagely candid.' The Spectator. It won the inaugural Wainwright Prize for Best Nature and Travel Writing 2014.

â€œEverywhere Thomson goes, he finds good stories to tell.â€
New York Times Book Review
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-11
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-10-11
Format	Kindle eBook

Two Men and a Mule: The Last City of the Incas (Kindle Single)

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