# The Last Days of the Incas Tags: #literature ## Metadata * Author: [Kim MacQuarrie](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B000QGES8I * ISBN: 074326049X * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QGES8I * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B000QGES8I) ## Highlights “Machu Picchu”—Quechua for “old peak.” — location: [242](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B000QGES8I&location=242) ^ref-45137 --- On this crisp spring morning, however, at an elevation of 11,300 feet in the Andes, church bells of bronze had begun to clang incessantly from a structure the Spaniards had hastily erected on top of the immaculately cut gray stones of the Qoricancha, the Incas’ temple of the sun. Rumors now swirled along the streets of this bowl-like city, surrounded by green hills, that the puppet Inca emperor had escaped and in fact was about to return with a massive native army, hundreds of thousands strong. — location: [359](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B000QGES8I&location=359) ^ref-42406 ---