Product Description MP3 CD Format 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. 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 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. MacQuarrie also relates the story of the modern search for Vilcabamba, of how Machu Picchu was discovered, and of how a trio of colorful American explorers only recently discovered the lost Inca capital of Vilcabamba, which had been hidden in the Amazon for centuries. This authoritative, exciting history is among the most powerful and important accounts of the culture of the South American Indians and the Spanish Conquest. Review "A first-rate reference work of ambitious scope that will most likely stand as the definitive account of these people."-- "Booklist" "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" "With vivid and energetic prose, Emmy Award winner and author MacQuarrie re-creates the sixteenth-century struggle for what would become modern-day Peru."-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)" Thrillingly informative.... Narrative gold.-- "Entertainment Weekly" About the Author Kim MacQuarrie is a writer, a four-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and an anthropologist. He is the author of four books on Peru and lived in that country for five years. During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently contacted tribe of indigenous Amazonians, called the Yora. It was MacQuarries experience filming a nearby group of indigenous people, whose ancestors still remembered their contacts with the Inca Empire, that ultimately led him to investigate and then to write his latest book, The Last Days of the Incas. Currently FX Channel is developing The Last Days of the Incas as a thirteen-part scripted television series. MacQuarrie is now at work on a book about a 4,500-mile journey from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego along the spine of the Andes.
The Last Days of the Incas
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Author: Kim MacQuarrie
Binding: Audio CD
ISBN: 9798200140602
Details:
Author: Kim MacQuarrie
Edition: Unabridged
Binding: Audio CD
Format: MP3 Audio
Number Of Pages: 1
Release Date: 01-03-2021
Languages: english
EAN: 9798200140602
