Pacaritambo

CORN WOMAN (MUJER MAIZ) (SIGNED Bilingual copy)
by Sue Littleton. Wonderful color and B&W photos illustrate. Condition: SIGNED by Author. NEW 1999 Catalogos (Buenos Aires) Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Bilingual edition - Spanish on the left; English on the right. Content: An enthralling epic poem that honors the importance of a small seed to countries around the world, with ironic twists of plot as a vengeful captive in foreign land. Historically correct adventures in the Ancient Americas. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 8.49 + shipping.

CRICKET SINGS: A Novel of Pre-Columbian Cahokia
by Kathleen King. Wonderful cover but no credit given to the artist. Condition: UNREAD 1983 Ohio State University Press Trade Paperback which was a school library book (with markings) and laminated cover. The interior is perfect - clean & tight. Content: This book is a rare gem in the literature of the ancient Americas: a successful attempt to bring to life the ancient Mississippian civilization of Cahokia, located in Illinois just outside St. Louis, Mo. King has woven a believeable and compelling story around the social an deconomic structure of a time that is known to us only through archaeological records. The characters live within their culture and folkways, and are as real as characters in the best of novels. (Dee Brown) Ms. King also used ethnological research dats gathered from historic Native American groups in creating her cast of characters. Fascinating reading. Geared primarily to young adults. This is the only work of fiction that I have found dealing with this civilization. [1 copy available]
$ 6.29 + shipping.

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. [1 copy available]
$ 28.69 + shipping.

THE MOCHE WARRIOR (An Archaeological Mystery)
by Lyn Hamilton. Condition: Gently pre-read 2000 Berkley paperback, first printing. Light edge wear with spine crease. Interior clean & tight. Content: Reviewer: "Second novel of Lyn Hamilton with the same character: Lara Mc Clyntoch, owner of antiquities shop in Toronto. Perhaps not as good as the first one, but still a good plot with great mistery. And after the Mayan civilisation you will discover Peru. Here perhaps the only lacking point: were is all the historical research we were now used to? A little bit less of that and the story doesn't have all the appeal that THE XIBALBA MURDER had. Anyway a good story to read, other adventures of our heroin Lara Mc Clintoch, a simple curious woman in her forties." [1 copy available]
$ 1.29 + shipping.

MOON FIRE
by Judith Redman Robbins. Condition: NEW 2000 Signet paperback. Perfect. Content: Historical fiction/romance. A vibrant, tapestried tale of love and betrayal and heroism among the Ancient ones of Chaco Canyon. Its prose is delicate, spare and stately, conveying both passion and restraint in a wealth of cultural detail. Moon Fire is a gifted student of the Sun Priests who develops her special ability to communicate with animals to help her people. Moon Fire threads a precarious existence in the time of the Great Drought when the peoples of Chaco Canyon gradually left their stone dwellings to seek better sustenance (presumably). Moon Fire's family suffers hunger, thirst and fear of betrayal and falseness on many levels. The bravery of Moon Fire, her brothers, and her lover and life mate, the Sun Priest flutist WenaAhote, are fully challenged and displayed. [1 copy available]
$ 2.29 + shipping.

SKRAELINGS (A Tale of Magic and Treachery in Early North America)
by Carl Sherrell. Cover art & B&W illustrations by Harry Quinn. Condition: Gently pre-read (perhaps) 1987 New Infinities Productions paperback, firsxt printing. Small edgewear with light shelfwear hinge crease. Interior clean & tight. Content: Historical fiction/romance. This is a most unusual combination of ancient North American history and romance. If you recall your history, the "Skraelings" was the name the Vikings who tried to settle Vinland gave to the Native Americans who inhabited the land. Eventually the fierce Skraelings forced the Vikings to return to their homeland and forget about the new world. The story here is the quest by Raum (a once powerful netherworld being) for his beloved Vivienne who was kidnapped and taken to the land of the Skraelings - who both help and hinder Raum in his search. A very strange book, but interesting. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 2.29 + shipping.