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The human history that has shaped South America is dramatically re-created in this rich account of iconic Andes characters, from Pablo Escobar and Hiram Bingham to Che Guevara and Butch Cassidy
span style="font-family: Verdana;">span style="font-size: small;">The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, running for 4,300 miles along the length of South America, from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego. For thousands of years they have been the setting for spectacular, dramatic, and often bloody events, even as they have given birth to some of the world's great civilizations. In this enthralling blend of history, travel, and adventure, Kim MacQuarrie takes readers on a fascinating journey that explores some of the most remarkable and enigmatic stories - from the ancient I | |  | | The Last Days of the Incas
"The Last Days of the Incas" is one of the greatest epic stories of all time: how did 168 Spanish conquistadors manage to conquer an Inca Empire of ten million?
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">em>The Last Days of the Incas/em>/span>/span>/b>span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"> is among the most powerful and important accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, of the modern search for the Incas’ lost Amazonian capital of Vilcabamba, and of the discovery of Machu Picchu. In 1911 an American historian from Yale University, Hiram Bingham, stumbled upon a spectacular set of Inca ruins called Machu Picchu, set high upon a ridg |
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