Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The complete story of the Inca and the Andean world in one illustrated volume: from the first cities of Peru to the empire the Inca called Tawantinsuyu.Across 50 chapters this book moves from Caral, Chavin and the great coastal and highland cultures that came before, through the rise of Cuzco, the conquests of Pachacuti and his successors, the roads, bridges and storehouses of the empire, and the civil war and Spanish conquest, to the Inca legacy in the Andes today. You will stand at Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Cajamarca and Vilcabamba, and meet the rulers, officials, weavers, farmers and runners who made the empire work.This is also a book about how people lived. Separate chapters explain Inca stone masonry, terraces and engineering, the ayllu and the Andean table of potatoes, maize and quinoa, cloth as the highest wealth, medicine, children, law, music, women, religion, sacrifice and burial.The Inca had no alphabet, and most written accounts come from Spanish chroniclers after the conquest, so every chapter ends with The Historian’s Verdict on what the chronicles claim and what archaeology shows. Cultural interludes explore Quechua song, the search for Vilcabamba and the Columbian exchange. Appendices give rulers and officials, a timeline, a guide to the evidence, a list of terms and a cast of people.
