Realm of the Incas by Max Milligan, HarperCollins, £29.99, ISBN
0007104057
WOVEN together by the imperial Quechua language, 23,000 kilometres
of roads and a state religion based on ancestor worship, the Inca empire
stretched from tropical rainforest over snow-capped Andean peaks down to the
sun-baked desert shores of the Pacific. Military conquest and strategic
alliances created Tahuantinsuyu or the “land of the four quarters”, embracing 12
million people and a kaleidoscope of spectacular landscapes. The Incas of Peru
had forged one of the ancient world’s greatest empires.
In Realm of the Incas, Max Milligan takes us on a stunning…
