num_pages: 180
description: Mark Howell and Tony Morrison are practitioners of a new kind of adventure. Their explorations in Inca territory three years ago were subject of a series of exciting films on BBC TV and of a book: Journey Through a Forgotten Empire. Here they tell of their latest journey through legendary and largely impenetrable reaches of Bolivia and Peru in search of the lost gold of the Incas - the dream of treasure-hunters since the sixteenth century. But their attention was also captured by the 18000000 treasure said to lie beneath a ruined Jesuit church now covered by dense jungle. Then there were the rich buried vaults of silver hidden by the Spanish pioneers high in the Andes when their Indian slave miners rose in arms against them.
language: English
title: Steps to a Fortune
publisher: The Travel Book Club