El Inca: The Life and Times of Garcilaso de la Vega

by John Grier Varner

Garcilaso de la Vega, the great chronicler of the Incas and the conquistadors, was born in Cuzco in 1539. At the age of twenty, he sailed to Spain to acquire an education, and he remained there until his death at C rdoba in 1616. As the natural son of a noble conquistador and an Indian woman of royal blood, he took immense pride in both his Spanish and Inca heritage, and, living as he did during a bewildering but stimulating epoch, he personally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029273591X
• ISBN13: 9780292735910
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"