The Last Days Of The Incas
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 Picchu 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...
The Last Days Of The Incas is the biography of a city—through history, myth, legend, literature, exploration, and archaeology.
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 Picchu 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...
The Last Days Of The Incas is the biography of a city—through history, myth, legend, literature, exploration, and archaeology.
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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 Picchu 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...
The Last Days Of The Incas is the biography of a city—through history, myth, legend, literature, exploration, and archaeology.
