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THE INCAS: A Magical Epic About a Lost World
by Daniel Peters. Decorated end pages, B&W charts and maps. Beautiful cover art by Wendell Minor.
Condition: UNREAD 1991 Random House huge (1060 pages) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), second printing.
Content: Intrigue, betrayal, warfare and family relationships form the fabric of this absorbing, epic of the Inca empire in the two decades preceding the
Spanish invasion. The love interest is provided by Cusi Huaman, a young Inca warrior once scorned as a weakling by his father, and Micay, a healer and daughter
of a Chachapoya rebel chief. Around them swirl dozens of historical and fictional characters, including three war chiefs who become the last Inca emperors. Writing
with the detail and accuracy customarily accorded anthropological treatises, Peters recreates ritual initiations, internecine feuds, the crushing of rebellions and the active
presence of the gods in daily life. Though the pace is slow and stately, this expansive novel plunges the reader into a maelstrom climaxed by the arrival of Francisco
Pizarro and the "Bearded Ones" in 1532. The futility of war and its devastation of the innocent are as vivid as Peters's detailed portrayal of diverse characters and the land and culture.
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