ISBN10: 0333106830, ISBN13: 9780333106839, [publisher: Papermac] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1970]
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ISBN10: 0333106830, ISBN13: 9780333106839, [publisher: Papermac] Hardcover Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
[Dunfermline, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1993]

ISBN10: 0333106830, ISBN13: 9780333106839, [publisher: Book club Associates] Hardcover Light wear to boards. Content is clean with a slight tone. DJ has edge tears.
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1971]
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UK: MacMillan, Date: 1977. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 641 pages. Index. Extensive reference notes. Black and white photographic plates. "It is much the best book on the Incas since Prescott's, which it is entitled to supercede... This entire book is imbued with intense human interest..." - Philip Magnus, The Sunday Times. Gift greetings upon verso of half-title page. Price-clipped dust jacket. Upper corner of front board and corresponding corner of dust jacket clipped (see photo), otherwise moderate wear to book, average wear to dust jacket. Solid working copy.. 1977. MacMillan ISBN 0333106830 9780333106839 [CA]

ISBN10: 0333106830, ISBN13: 9780333106839, [publisher: Macmillan] Hardcover "Distinguished by an extraordinary empathy, a feeling of one's way into the minds of the sixteenth-century Spaniards and Indians . . . Provocative." -- New York Times "An extraordinary book. Combining rigorous historical research and profound analysis with stylistic elegance, this work allows the reader to appreciate the tragic and fabulous history of the Incan empire in all its richness and diversity. It reads like the most skillful novel." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature In 1532, the magnificent Inca empire was the last great civilization still isolated from the rest of humankind. The Conquest of the Incas is the definitive history of this civilization's overthrow, from the invasion by Pizarro's small gang of conquistadors and the Incas' valiant attempts to expel the invaders to the destruction of the Inca realm, the oppression of its people, and the modern discoveries of Machu Picchu and the lost city of Vilcabamba. This authoritative, wide-ranging account, grounded in meticulous research and firsthand knowledge and told from the viewpoints of both protagonists, "keeps all the complex issues to the fore . . . the deeper wonder of the conquest and the deeper horror of its results" (Washington Post). "The bible for historians and archaeologists studying the final days of the Inca. For the past thirty years, ...
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Macmillan 1970 hardcover Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.