John Pilkington - Royal Road to the Incas
- Venue: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Date: 24 Mar '10
- Time: 14:15 - 15:30
- Price: £6 for adults, free for under 18s/students/RSGS members
- Venue Address: 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR
Event Details
John Pilkington is a journalist and broadcaster with the BBC World Service and Radio 4, for whom he has made adventure documentaries, most recently On the Trail of Butch & Sundance.John travelled the Royal Road, which follows the spine of the Andes for 1,700 miles through what is now Ecuador and Peru. The trip was full of surprises - volcanic eruptions, floods, snowstorms and a military coup - but helped by friendly inhabitants and sustained by the native Andean potato, he reached his goal and made some unexpected discoveries.
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