The History of the Conquest of Peru
by William Hickling Prescott
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott 1874
ISBN/ASIN: 1406566470
Number of pages: 570
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Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescott's masterly History of the Conquest of Mexico, continues his vivid chronicle of Spanish exploits in the New World. The book's commanding vision of Pizarro's tumultuous overthrow of the Inca empire has secured its reputation as a classic in the literature of Latin American history.
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