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| The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ruth M. Wright, Alfredo Valencia Zegarra
Publisher: Johnson Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (29 reviews)
Sales Rank: 9100
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1555663273
Dewey Decimal Number: 918.537
EAN: 9781555663278
ASIN: 1555663273
Publication Date: February 15, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 A wonder of the world revealed May 12, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having walked the plateau and ruins of Machu Picchu over a two day period this book has served as a marvelous tool to relive the experience. The wealth of pictures, duplicating some of my own, and the text set a perspective for this wonder of the world. Subtitled as "A Self Guided Tour" the book does accomplish that role. If there is a negative to the book it rests with the fact that most of the photographs are shot in black and white. Even so, you will have no difficulty recognizing the sites as you stand before them.
very good guidebook March 13, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book was a great book to have while at the site and to refer back to upon return from the trip. It provides a great insight into the construction and detailing as well as closeby offsite areas that are important to know about.
 pass on this picchu January 16, 2007
3 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book will not significantly enrich any persons knowledge of this priceless architectural relic. Poorly written, poorly illustrated and frustrating devoid of any new perspective or information, many publications available are considerably better at providing an understanding of this fantastic site. Pass on this one.
 Nice to have.... November 10, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
...but a tour is better. This was very informative in preparation for going to Machu Piccu, but the last thing you want to do when walking around the ruins is read a book. I took a tour which made the book unnecessary. If you have no plans to go to Peru, this book has fantastic pictures and gives a good sense of what it is like.
 Excellent guidebook August 20, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This guide is indispensible if you are traveling to Machu Picchu. Nothing at the site is labeled, so having the book makes the experience much more meaningful, and allows you to interpret what you are seeing.
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