Beautiful and plentiful photographs similar to the two previous books by these authors, photograqphers and Manu & Gold of theAndes
Kim MacQuarrie Books
Kim MacQuarrie is an award-winning author, documentary filmmaker, and anthropologist whose works delve into remote cultures and histories. His extensive fieldwork in South America, living with indigenous tribes and exploring hidden regions, provides a unique perspective. MacQuarrie's writing focuses on uncovering the dramatic encounters between civilizations, such as the impact of the Inca Empire on modern societies. Rooted in anthropological research and filmmaking techniques, his narrative style offers readers a compelling and deeply informed storytelling experience.
"Kim MacQuarrie tells ... stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all ... set in the Andes Mountains"--
The last days of the Incas
- 522 pages
- 19 hours of reading
In 1572 the Spanish sacked Vilcabamba, the last Inca stronghold, and the city was rapidly overtaken by the jungle, receding for hundreds of years into legend and myth. This is the story of how Vilcabamba was founded and how the Incas held out against the Spanish for over 30 years in a savage guerrilla war. Hundreds of years later, at the turn of this century an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, stumbled on the ruins of Machu Pichu and announced to the world that he had found Vilcabamba, the lost city of the Incas. For fifty years the academic world agreed with him until in 1967 another American explorer discovered the real Vilcabamba...This is the biography of a city - through history, myth, legend, literature, exploration and archaeology.
