“I felt bad for lying to John, who was about as honest as Abe Lincoln on sodium Pentothal.” — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
“If you've ever thought, 'The new Times Square is delightful but would be even better if it were more claustrophobic and nearly impossible to… — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
“So the Inca Trail isn’t just a pretty shortcut that Pachacutec took on his way to his summer home?” “Mark, you can’t finish the… — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
“When we arrived at my home north of the city, my five-year-old son Magnus, brimming with the confidence he'd gained in two full weeks… — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
“On a globe it looks like a swollen California. Within that space, though, are twenty-thousand-foot peaks, the world’s deepest canyon (twice as deep as… — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
“Separating fact and fiction in Inca history is impossible, because virtually all the sources available are Spanish accounts of stories that had already been… — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
“I remembered an unpleasant weekend spent struggling to comprehend the philosopher Immanuel Kant's explanation of the difference between calling something beautiful and calling it… — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
“I felt bad for lying to John, who was about as honest as Abe Lincoln on sodium Pentothal.” — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
“The ability to arrive uninvited in an alien land and convince one’s hosts that almost everything they believe is wrong requires a rather forceful… — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
