The White Rock - An Exploration of the Inca Heartland

£9.99

“The White Rock” is the beautiful account of Hugh Thomson’s quest for the lost cities of the Amazonian Inca heartland, following in the footsteps of previous explorers and making new discoveries about the ancient Inca Empire.

The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered over thousands of miles of still largely uncharted territory, particularly in the Eastern Andes, where the mountains fall away towards the Amazon.

It is while working in London that twenty-five years ago Hugh Thomson hears an extraordinary story about an Inca ruin which had been discovered and unbelievably lost again. Gripped, he sets off into the cloud-forest on foot to find the forgotten site.

This is the starting point of a remarkable journey into the Eastern Andes of Peru, bringing to life the culture of the Incas and their strange and often hostile world. On the way we hear tales of some of the men who preceded him - Hiram Bingham, Robert Nichols and Gene Savoy - as Thomson weaves a history of South American exploration into a narrative that sheds new light upon a mysterious, alien culture.

‘The long-awaited definite travel book on Peru’ - John Hemming