Title: Pizarro : conqueror of the Inca /
Authors: Stirling, Stuart
Publisher: Sutton,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Pizarro, Francisco,; Explorers Peru Biography; Explorers Spain Biography; Governors Peru Biography.; Peru History
Abstract: "Francisco Pizarro is possibly one of the best known but least understood figures of world history. In 1530, at the age of fifty-four, he set out on his successful and bloody conquest of Peru, thus changing the future of a continent and its peoples forever. It was a long way from his humble beginnings as an illiterate, illegitimate pig-herder. Within these pages Stuart Stirling tells the story of adversity and tragedy which was the life of Francisco Pizarro.".
Contents: The old slaver -- The conquest of paradise -- The capture of the sun god -- Cuzco -- The siege of the holy city -- The death of Almagro -- The frontiers of New Castile -- Marqués of the Indies -- The most magnificent Lord Gonzalo -- Inca princesses, courtesans and wives of Pizarro's conquistadores -- The legacy of Pizarro.