Sent as a delegate to the first Pan-American Scientific Congress at Santiago in 1908, the Yale historian Hiram Bingham took the long way round. He touches at Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio, crosses Argentina by the Tucumán express, climbs into Bolivia to the silver city of Potosí, and continues to Chile and Peru, mixing travel with history and politics.
Lively travel by the explorer who would soon bring Machu Picchu to world attention. Download the free EPUB.