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 | The Last Days of the Incas
By: Simon & Schuster No Longer Available
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... |
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 | The Treasure of the Incas
By: Book Jungle Price: $ 37.41 $ 13.95 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. Published in 1903 this adventure story is set in Peru. When the Spaniards came to Peru they tried to find out where the treasures of the Incas were hidden. They were cruel to the natives and made every attempt to find the treasure. Legend says that Incas leaving the area took the treasure and founded a secret city deep in the jungle. At the time of Hentys story Peru was in a state of confusion, and incessant... |
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 | Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu
By: Palgrave Macmillan Price: $ 27.00 $ 16.81 Reviews: 34 Average Rating: 4.5
In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the Incas greatest achievement. Tall, handsome, and sure of his destiny, Bingham believed that Machu Picchu was the Incas’ final refuge, where they fled the Spanish Conquistadors. Bingham made Machu Picchu famous, and his dispatches from the jungle cast him as the swashbuckling hero... |
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 | Birds of Peru (Princeton Field Guides)
By: Princeton University Press Price: $ 49.50 Reviews: 29 Average Rating: 4.5
Nearly eighteen hundred different bird species--one fifth of the worlds birds--have been recorded in Peru. Birds of Peru is the most complete and well-researched field guide to this rich and fascinating diversity. It illustrates every one of the 1,792 species and shows the distinct plumages of each. It includes 304 superb, high-quality color plates directly opposite concise descriptions and color distribution maps, making it much easier to use in the field than standard neotropical field guides. The detailed text discusses key... |
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 | The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
By: Smithsonian Books Price: $ 19.95 $ 15.53 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 4.5
This second edition of Catherine J. Allens distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000, and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985. |
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 | The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (Revised Edition)
By: Thames & Hudson Price: $ 34.95 $ 19.62 Reviews: 6 Average Rating: 4.5
In 1532, when Pizarro conquered Peru, the Inca realm was one of the largest empires on earth, graced by gold masterpieces, towns with great palaces and temples, and an impressive network of roads. But this glittering culture only obscured the rich and diverse civilizations that had preceded it: Chavin, Moche, Nazca, Tiwanaku, Huari, and Chimú. Described as a "masterly study" and an "outstanding volume" on its first publication, The Incas and Their Ancestors quickly established itself as the best general introduction to the cultures and... |
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 | Perus Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga To 1640
By: University Of Wisconsin Press Price: $ 19.95 $ 12.95 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
This second edition of Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest includes Stern’s 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book’s original publication—setting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective. |
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 | The First New Chronicle and Good Government
By: Hackett Pub Co Price: $ 14.95 $ 11.90 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, an indigenous Peruvian serving in the colonial Spanish government, wrote his "First New Chronicle and Book of Good Government" between the years 1600 and 1616. In this monumental work he recorded the history of Peru from the beginning of time up to the Spanish conquest (1532-1572); he also portrayed pre-colonial Inca society in remarkably vivid detail and proposed his own remedies to the abuses of the corrupt Spanish administration. David Fryes skillful translation simultaneously captures the Biblical-to-legal... |
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 | History of the Incas (Works Issued By the Hakluyt Society, 2nd Ser., No. 22.)
By: Dover Publications Price: $ 19.95 $ 9.95 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 3.0
Rare manuscript—one of the primary sources of information on pre-Conquest Incan history, traditions and chronology, gives full details of ceremonies, festivals and religious beliefs and provides detailed accounts of the origin of the Incas, ancient systems of land division, early settlements, biographical sketches of rulers, coming of the Spaniards, the execution of the last Inca emperor and much more. Also includes sensitively written account of events leading up to and including the execution of a young Incan prince. Of great interest to... |
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 | The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 26.95 $ 16.90 Reviews: 12 Average Rating: 4.5
Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The early-twentieth-century American adventurer Hiram Bingham told of the raging rivers and the wild jungles he traversed on his way to rediscovering the “Lost City of the Incas,” Machu Picchu. Seventy years later, news crews from ABC and CBS traveled to Peru to report on merciless terrorists,... |
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