The volume includes a general account of the aspect, character, and dress of the Indians as well as a superb treatise on the Incas—their legends, history, and social institutions.

Nestled in the Andes Mountains, the Inca people built a settlement that’s in perfect harmony with the surrounding landscape. This title explores the geography of the ancient Inca civilization, which extended well beyond Machu Picchu.

History of the Inca Realm, by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, is a classic work of ethnohistorical research which has been both influential and provocative in the field of Andean prehistory.

New to this edition is a fascinating investigation of Inca notions of life and death, space-time, causality, philosophy, knowledge, and human relations with non-human beings of the landscape.

The scholars behind this new edition (the first to be published in English since 1907) went to similarly great lengths in pursuit of accuracy.

This is the story of his journey to discover it via the interconnecting paths the Incas laid across the Andes.

In fact, the society didn’t have it. This is just one fact presented in this volume, which provides an in-depth look at the Inca economy.

In 1531, Pizarro led a small but well-trained army along the Pacific coast of the unexplored South America. With less than 200 men, he conquered the Inca Empire, which ruled what is now Peru, establishing Spanish dominion.

The Incas has become a classic in its many years in print; readers and scholars interested in ancient American cultures will relish this paperback edition.