Two Men and a Mule: The Last City of the Incas (Kindle Single)

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The Andes have develop into a symbol of a ‘lost world’ of Inca wisdom and cities in the clouds, of the Celestine Prophecy and Indiana Jones – it needs two men (and their mule) to cut their way through the mystique with some machetes and wit.

Renowned explorers Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen sign up for forces with their trusty mule Washington, to journey to the odd ‘Last City of the Incas’, Espíritu Pampa. Deep down in the Amazon, this is where the Incas escaped when at the run from the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th Century, and where the very last Inca emperor, Tupac Amaru, was once in the end captured and brought back to be executed in the main square of Cuzco.

This arduous trek takes them down off the steep slopes of the Andean cloud-forest into the steamy jungle and down stone-laid Inca path as they trek to the last city of the Incas – Espiritu Pampa – ‘the Pampa of Ghosts’.

Hugh Thomson is the writer of a series of acclaimed Commute books, including The White Rock and Nanda Devi. His memoir Tequila Oil, about getting lost in Mexico when he was once eighteen, was once serialised by the BBC and he has led many adventurous expeditions to Peru looking for Inca ruins.

In The Green Road into the Trees: A Walk through England, Hugh wrote for the first time about his own country: ‘An immensely enjoyable book: curious, articulate, intellectually playful and savagely candid.’ The Spectator. It won the inaugural Wainwright Prize for Best Nature and Commute Writing 2014.

“In all places Thomson goes, he finds good stories to tell.”
New York Times Book Review

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