The Last Days of the Incas » (Reprint)

Kim MacQuarrie is a four-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who has lived and worked all over the world. 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 three illustrated books about Peru and now lives in Washington, D. C.

Visit the author at www.lastdaysoftheincas.com

Patrick F. McManus has written twelve books and two plays. There are nearly two million copies of his books in print, including his bestselling "They Shoot Canoes Don't They?"; "The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw"; and "A Fine and Pleasant Mystery," He divides his time between Spokane, Washington, and Idaho.
Read by Norman Dietz

Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. This authoritative, exciting history is among the most powerful and important accounts of the culture of the South American Indians and the Spanish Conquest.

George Cohen - Booklist

MacQuarrie, a four-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, researched Spanish and Incan chronicles. The result is a first-rate reference work of ambitious scope that will most likely stand as the definitive account of these people.

Chronology of Events     xiii
Preface     1
The Discovery     7
A Few Hundred Well-Armed Entrepreneurs     15
Supernova of the Andes     38
When Empires Collide     55
A Roomful of Gold     86
Requirem for a King     118
The Puppet King     138
Prelude to a Rebellion     165
The Great Rebellion     193
Death in the Andes     230
The Return of the One-Eyed Conqueror     259
In the Realm of the Antis     279
Vilcabamba: Guerrilla Capital of the World     305
The Last of the Pizarros     331
The Incas' Last Stand     353
The Search for the "Lost City" of the Incas     379
Vilcabamba Rediscovered     412
Epilogue: Machu Picchu, Vilcabamba, and the Search for the Lost Cities of the Andes     437
Acknowledgments     463
Notes     465
Bibliography     491
Index     497