Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tourby Ruth M. MacQuarrie also spends a few chapters on the history of Inca research and discovery since the conquest, including Bingham's adventures as well as explorer Gene Savoy's work at Espiritu Pampa. It's interesting to compare MacQuarrie’s more serious history with Bingham's Lost City to see where Bingham made his leaps of faith, as well as understand how well researched his expeditions were. Dramatic and historic, this reads more like fiction than the modern standard-bearer of the epic tale of exploration and invasion, John Hemmings's Conquest of the Incas. MacQuarrie writes a detailed and narrative history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca. Though his conclusions about what he'd found are inaccurate, one can't help but be drawn into his very real-life jungle adventure. Another of his discoveries at Espiritu Pampa was confirmed as the lost city in the 1970s. With Machu Picchu, he'd absolutely found a lost city, just not the lost city. Bingham reconfirmed what he thought he'd found at Machu Picchu-the fabled last stronghold of the Inca. Bingham wrote his classic synthesis of adventure, discovery, and history in 1948, 37 years after his discovery of Machu Picchu and just a few years before his death.
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