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About The Last Days Of The Incas
Product Description 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. Review “A welcome addition to the literature…Lively and dramatic” – The Washington Post "Vivid...energetic...fascinating...riveting"--Publisher's Weekly, STARRED Review "In this thrilling informative work...MacQuarrie also manages to spin the oft-told story of the discovery of Machu Picchu into narrative gold." --Entertainment Weekly "Thoroughly and entertainingly recounted...MacQuarrie excels." -- Forbes "A first-rate...work of ambitious scope that will most likely stand as the definitive account of these people." —Booklist "Fascinating and enthralling...the direct narrative brings alive people who existed 500 years ago. Truly a work worth Inca gold." -- The History Magazine "The Last Days of the Incas reads like a novel...a delightful, eminently readable account." -- St. Petersburg Times "Hooks the reader right away with its flowing, novelistic language...a ripping good yarn. And [it] would make a great movie, too." -- The Roanoke Times Kim MacQuarrie's detailed, gripping account of the destruction wreaked by Spanish conquistadors following their arrival in the Incan empire in 1532 is a stand-out read. It's compelling, brutal and hugely revealing about the plight of the Incan people. – History Revealed “A skillful mix of extensive research, insightful analysis, and masterful storytelling.” -- CHOICE (Current Reviews for Academic Libraries) “Sensitive…heart-wrenching…astounding” -- The South American Explorer Magazine "This is an excellent book...a detailed, highly accurate and thoroughly engaging narrative of these events" -- Dr. Brian S Bauer, Inca specialist, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Historian "This is a wonderful book about one of the most epic struggles of history, a conquest that transformed a continent." -- Wade Davis, anthropologist and author of “One River” and “Into the Silence” "A colorful, superbly crafted historical narrative that masterfully demonstrates that when cultures collide, unforeseen and tragic consequences follow....also a memorable adventure story, revealing the modern Indiana Jones-type characters that unearthed, and continue to discover, lost parts of the Inca Empire. “T
