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    Title
    The Last Days of the Incas
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Kim MacQuarrie, Narrator Norman Dietz
    Physical properties
    Format: CD-Audio
    Width: 178 mm
    Height: 178 mm
    Thickness: 45 mm
    Weight: 206 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781400135196
    ISBN 10: 1400135192
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: HIS028000
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1KL
    Dewey: 985.02
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T5.2
    BISAC category code: HIS033000
    Dewey: 985.02
    BISAC category code: HIS037000
    BISAC category code: HIS045000
    BISAC category code: HIS024000
    Edition
    Unabridged
    Edition statement
    Library ed
    Publisher
    Tantor Media, Inc
    Imprint name
    Tantor Media, Inc
    Publication date
    17 September 2007
    Publication City/Country
    Old Saybrook, CT/US
    Main description
    Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. This authoritative, exciting history is among the most powerful and important accounts of the culture of the South American Indians and the Spanish Conquest.
    Review quote
    "A welcome addition to the literature.... Lively and dramatic." ---Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
    Biographical note
    Kim MacQuarrie is a four-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, a writer, and an anthropologist who has made films in such disparate regions as Siberia, Papua New Guinea, and Peru. MacQuarrie is the author of three previous books on Peru and lived in that country for five years, exploring many of the locations and hidden regions he chronicles in The Last Days of the Incas. During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently contacted tribe of Amazonian Indians called the Yora. It was MacQuarrie's experience filming a nearby group of Indians, whose ancestors still remembered their contacts with the Inca Empire, that ultimately led him to investigate and then to write The Last Days of the Incas. Norman Dietz is a writer, an actor, and a solo performer. Since 1962, he has toured coast to coast, presenting his work before audiences all over the United States and Canada. He is the author of the comic novel Nailing It, as well as Fables & Vaudevilles & Plays and The Lifeguard and the Mermaid, collections of his work for the stage. Norman has also performed frequently on radio and television, and he has recorded over 150 audiobooks, many of which have earned him awards from AudioFile magazine, the ALA, and Publishers Weekly. Additionally, AudioFile named Norman one of the Best Voices of the Century. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.