Machu Picchu's Sacred Sisters: Choquequirao & Llactapata
This book is about more than these two fascinating sites. It gives a lively look at a rugged, spectacular, and highly important but little-known part of the Inca empire. --John Hemming, Former Director of the Royal Geographical SocietyThis book is one of the best studies to come out about the Machu Picchu region in years. Congratulations on doing such a meticulous study, and for the photos and plans that are a tremendous help to the reader, besides being of academic importance. --John Reinhard, Explorer in Residence at National Geographic and author of Machu Picchu: Exploring an Ancient Sacred CenterDuring the first half of my thirty years bashing about in the peaks and jungles of Vilcabamba, I crossed trails with quite a bunch of interesting characters, but somehow missed one of the most intrepid of all, my now friend and fellow explorer, Gary Ziegler. We were following parallel paths, it seemed, finding and recording long forgotten ruins that finally brought us together. Gary's many expeditions have produced a string of important papers and monographs, but his great new book, Machu Picchu's Sacred Sisters: Choquequirao and Llactapata, exposing the newly revealed wonders of Choquequirao, the other Machu Picchu, is a long-overdue contribution to the literature of the Inca. It belongs in the collection of anyone, expert, amateur, or armchair adventurer with a serious interest in the subject. --Vince Lee, author of Forgotten Vilcabamba