Last Days of the Incas

Name: Last Days of the Incas
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ISBN: 9780743260503

ISBN-10: 0743260503

ISBN-13: 9780743260503

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Authors: Kim MacQuarrie

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In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed -- due largely to their horses, their steel armor and swords, and their tactic of surprise. They captured and imprisoned Atahualpa. Although the Inca emperor paid an enormous ransom in gold, the Spaniards…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 6/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Kim MacQuarrie is a four-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and award-winning author who has lived and worked all over the world. Educated in the US and France, he lived for five years in Peru and spent some of that time living with a recently contacted tribe in the Amazon jungle, only 100 miles from Machu Picchu. He is the author of Adventures in the Andes and The Last Days of the Incas, as well as three illustrated books about Peru. He currently divides his time between the US, Peru, and Thailand. Visit him at KimMacQuarrie.com.



Chronology of Events


Preface



The Discovery



A Few Hundred Well-Armed Entrepreneurs



Supernova of the Andes



When Empires Collide



A Roomful of Gold



Requirem for a King



The Puppet King



Prelude to a Rebellion



The Great Rebellion



Death in the Andes



The Return of the One-Eyed Conqueror



In the Realm of the Antis



Vilcabamba: Guerrilla Capital of the World



The Last of the Pizarros



The Incas' Last Stand



The Search for the "Lost City" of the Incas



Vilcabamba Rediscovered


Epilogue: Machu Picchu, Vilcabamba, and the Search for the Lost Cities of the Andes


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index