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Kim MacQuarrie
Dear Reader, Some years ago, when I was living with a recently-contacted tribe in the Peruvian Amazon, a tribesman came up to me and handed me a small but heavy object wrapped up in old banana leaves. Inside was a perfectly preserved Inca bronze axe head—proof that the Incas had traded with the Amazonian tribes around here some 500 years ago. It was that obscure incident that started me on the journey to writing THE LAST DAYS OF THE INCAS, the epic story of how Francisco Pizarro and 168 Spanish conquistadors somehow toppled an empire of 10 million Incas, and also the little known story of how the Incas mounted a massive rebellion before retreating to the Amazon jungle and founding a new capital there—not far from where I had lived with that tribe. More than 300 years later, an American explorer stumbled on the ruins of Machu Picchu and announced to the world that he had found the Incas' lost rebel capital. But had he? Or did the rebel capital still lie somewhere in the Amazon, waiting to be discovered? Publisher's Weekly, in a "Starred Review," described my book (a History Book Club and Military Book Club selection) as "Vivid...energetic...fascinating...riveting." The Kiriyama Prize Committee selected it as a "notable book" for 2008. And Entertainment Weekly said simply that THE LAST DAYS OF THE INCAS was "thrillingly informative...narrative gold." I invite you to write me at kimmacquarrie@gmail.com and become one of five people to win a free, signed copy of the newly-released trade paperback. Also check out www.lastdaysoftheincas.com and www.lastdaysoftheincas.com/wordpress for a website and blog about the book and exciting new discoveries in the Andes and the Amazon. Your fellow book explorer, Kim MacQuarrie |