History of the Incas

A valuable historical work by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a Spanish explorer, author, historian, astronomer, scientist, and humanist of the sixteenth century. His life was full of the most surprising adventures: he was three times convicted and acquitted by the Inquisition, pursued the leader of English pirated Francis Drake from Peru to Panama, was taken prisoner by the English and then the French, and participated in other risky ventures. One has to regret that such an eventful life allowed h