マーク・アダムス（Mark Adams、1967年–）は、アメリカのジャーナリスト・紀行作家・編集者。イリノイ州オークパーク出身。『ナショナル・ジオグラフィック・アドヴェンチャー』の寄稿編集者を務め、『GQ』『ローリング・ストーン』などに執筆してきた。歴史上の探検や失われた都市を題材に、文献調査と自身の旅を組み合わせたノンフィクションを手がける。1911年にマチュピチュを世界に広く紹介したハイラム・ビンガムの足跡をたどる『マチュピチュ探検記 天空都市の謎を解く』（原題 “Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time”）では、野外生活の経験に乏しかった著者自身が、オーストラリア人ガイドとともにペルーの山岳地帯へ向かう。インカ帝国の歴史、ビンガムの探検記録、現代の遺跡をめぐる旅を重ね合わせ、マチュピチュが何のために築かれたのかを探った。「発見者」という呼称や出土品の扱いをめぐる論争にも触れ、探検の冒険性と、その背後にある歴史の語られ方を考察している。
Mark Adams (born 1967) is an American journalist, travel writer and editor from Oak Park, Illinois. He has worked as a contributing editor for National Geographic Adventure and written for publications including GQ and Rolling Stone. His nonfiction combines historical research with journeys that retrace earlier expeditions or investigate accounts of lost cities. Following the route of Hiram Bingham’s 1911 expedition in Peru, “Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time” brings together Inca history, the explorer’s records and Adams’s own experiences in the Andes. Despite having written extensively about adventure, Adams began the journey with little experience of outdoor life, traveling with an Australian guide through remote mountain landscapes. His central question concerns the purpose of Machu Picchu, but the book also examines Bingham’s contested reputation, the meaning of archaeological “discovery” and disputes over artifacts removed from Peru. Humor about his own difficulties accompanies an investigation into how accounts of exploration are constructed. By placing historical narratives alongside the places they describe, Adams explores both the practical experience of travel and the assumptions inherited from earlier travelers.
