The last days of the Incas
By: Kim MacQuarrie.
Publisher: Portrait
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780749950699
Subjects: Incas -- Antiquities.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru -- Vilcabamba (Extinct city); Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548; Vilcabamba Site (Peru)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The discovery; value: A few hundred well-armed entrepreneurs; value: Supernova of the Andes; value: When empires collide; value: A roomful of gold; value: Requiem for a king; value: The puppet king; value: Prelude to a rebellion; value: The great rebellion; value: Death in the Andes; value: The return of the one-eyed conqueror; value: In the realm of the Antis; value: Vilcabamba: guerrilla capital of the world; value: The last of the Pizarros; value: The Incas' last stand; value: The search for the "lost city" of the Incas; value: Vilcabamba rediscovered; value: Epilogue: Machu Picchu, Vilcabamba, and the search for the lost cities of the Andes.