Two discoveries--the uncovering of the lost Incan city of Machu Picchu by an archeological team and Willie Hickler's liberating revelation in his love for Ernesto, a young Peruvian--unfold in the mountains of Peru in 1911

"I have read Treasures on Earth with great enjoyment and admiration. Most of all, I admire the book for its extraordinarily subtle study of a friendship between two people of widely different cultures—it can stand comparison with Forster's somewhat similar study in A Passage to India. My congratulations to Carter Wilson."

–Christopher Isherwood.

"Its power is so great we may be witnessing the birth of a classic."

–Boston Globe