Name: The Last Days of the Incas
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Author: Kim MacQuarrie
ISBN: 9780743260503

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kim MacQuarrie

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

522

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.3 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.60 kg.

ISBN

0743260503

ISBN13

9780743260503

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Last Days of the Incas "

The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers. 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 executed him anyway. The following year, the Spaniards seized the Inca capital of Cuzco, completing their conquest of the largest native empire the New World has ever known. Peru was now a Spanish colony, and the conquistadors were wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. But the Incas did not submit willingly. A young Inca emperor, the brother of Atahualpa, soon led a massive rebellion against the Spaniards, inflicting heavy casualties and nearly wiping out the conquerors. Eventually, however, Pizarro and his men forced the emperor to abandon the Andes and flee to the Amazon. There, he established a hidden capital, called Vilcabamba--only recently rediscovered by a trio of colorful American explorers. Although the Incas fought a deadly, thirty-six-year-long guerrilla war, the Spanish ultimately captured the last Inca emperor and vanquished the native resistance.

Kim MacQuarrie

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Kim MacQuarrie, writer and anthropologist, has won several Emmy awards for his documentaries on regions as diverse as Siberia, Papua New Guinea, or Peru. He lived five years in the latter country, exploring its most remote areas, and in the Amazon, he lived with the recently located Yora tribe. His experience filming within another neighboring tribe, whose ancestors still remembered their contacts with the Inca Empire, led him to write The Last Days of the Incas. He is also the author of Gold of the Andes: The Llamas, Alpacas, Vicuñas and Guanacos of South America, Peru´s Amazonian Eden: Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve, and Where the Andes Meet the Amazon.

Currently, he lives between Peru, Thailand, and the United States.

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