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Title: History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott ISBN: 1-4043-0814-8 Publisher: IndyPublish.com Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $98.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: great gift for old guys
Comment: I read this one while traveling around Peru and the local experts confirmed the accuracy of Prescott's 150-year-old writings about Inca culture. Many of the most important actors in the book were surprisingly old considering the hardships that they endured. For example, Pizarro himself was 60 when he started heading down towards Peru through terrible storms in wooden boats, often getting stranded in mosquito-infested jungles without food for months at a time. He was 65 by the time he actually conquered Peru. One of the Pizarro family's most effective generals in their fights against other Spaniards was 80-84 during the period of these civil wars.
This book makes a great gift for anyone traveling to Ecuador or Peru and for anyone over the age of 60.
Rating: 3
Summary: Somewhat boring
Comment: There's a lot of information here but the book is often slow and dull and too wordy and pretentious for my tastes. Less is more.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great History Book!
Comment: A wonderful book! It reads like great fiction but the events aren't fiction-- they actually happened! This book kept me captivated, I couldn't put it down! Prescott does a marvelous Job!
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Title: The Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming ISBN: 0156028263 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Discovery and Conquest of Peru: Chronicles of the New World Encounter (Chronicles of the New World Encounter) by Pedro De Cieza De Leon, Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook, Pedro De Cieza De Leon, David Noble Cook ISBN: 0822321467 Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland by Hugh Thomson ISBN: 1585673552 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke ISBN: 0743260244 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 22 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken ISBN: 0525947647 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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