--- product_id: 79996679 title: "Inca" price: "VT7865" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/79996679-inca store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Inca **Price:** VT7865 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Inca - **How much does it cost?** VT7865 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/79996679-inca) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Inca is the life story of Haylli Yupanki, a man who served three generations of emperors only to watch his whole world shatter and shatter again, leaving nothing behind but his memories and his pride. Hiding in the jungle with the last of the unsubjugated Inca, Haylli transcribes his memoirs from quipus –the Inca’s writing system of knotted string– into Spanish with the help of a captured priest. Beginning with a childhood of privilege and a youth spent as a fugitive from Imperial justice, through a successful career as the Inca’s most powerful bureaucrat, to an old age spent in the ruin of his life’s work, Haylli was present at all the important moments of his people. Through his words he hopes their story will be remembered.Fans of historical fiction can look forward to an epic family saga covering more than seventy years to include almost everything we know happened between the zenith and nadir of Inca power. More than two-thirds of the characters are based on real people, and every corner of the empire is visited over the course of the narrator’s life: The plot has court intrigue, forbidden loves, triumphs, tragedies, rivalries, heroes, monsters, coups, civil wars, prophecies, plagues, treasures, sex and violence –all before the conquistadors arrive to change everything forevermore. Review: As grand and ambitious as the Inca themselves - I found Inca to be a remarkable story on two levels. On one, it provides a complete history of the Inca empire's final decades, full of lush cultural detail that prompted me to take a long online tour of Incan artwork, and bump Peru up several places on my travel-to-do list. Woven into this is a personal story of ambition, power struggles, and the relationship between a father and son - and though it takes place in an empire now centuries dead, the humanity that drives it is universal. In popular knowledge and culture, the Inca are underrepresented for some reason. Most people probably picture them as being mostly similar to the more popular Aztec - at least I know I did before reading this novel. But in reality, with one of the world's biggest mountain ranges between them, the Inca and Aztec people had very little in common. The Incan empire was one of the greatest of its time, and learning more about it - from its solid gold gardens to its deadly obsidian labyrinth - was consistently fascinating. The broadest and most interesting fact conveyed by the novel defies one of the few pieces of common wisdom about the Inca, which is that the invading Spanish were the sole authors of their destruction. In truth, as the novel reveals, the empire's strength had been waning for some time, and violent internal discord was beginning to break it up before the first white man ever reached their shores. Accordingly, the bulk of the novel takes place before the Spanish arrive, and shows us that their invasion was only the last in a string of catastrophes. We see all this through the eyes of Haylli Yupanki, whom we meet when he still bears his child name, Waccha. The novel takes us from his upbringing and his coming of age through to his elder years as one of the most quietly influential men in a dying empire. Haylli is deeply inspired by his father, and driven also by a fierce sense of passion and competition. His nemesis, the warrior-prodigy Chalcucima, motivates him to distinguish himself in unique ways by using his natural intelligence and cunning, and Haylli fights Chalcucima in many battles both friendly and unfriendly. It is nearly impossible to provide a summary of Inca's storyline and cast of characters, spanning decades and generations as they do, but that is for the best: the joy of the story comes from living with Haylli, sharing the surprise of new encounters and the memories of old ones, and watching the evolution of relationships that last a lifetime. There is much change to be witnessed, for Haylli is the kind of person who grows from an unsure boy into a man who (I won't tell you how or why) pushes his all-powerful emperor out of a window. The amount of research that went into Inca is staggering. In conveying all that knowledge, Micks strikes the perfect balance: staying committed to accuracy without getting bogged down in details or feeling like a textbook. The story is well-paced and never boring, and at times it pleasantly diverts into intriguing locations like the Chaski messenger school, where trainees climb a mountain with whips at their back. The challenge is in the complexity of a story with such an epic scale: there are many characters, relationships and locations at play, and keeping everything straight can at times seem daunting. Luckily, a thorough glossary and a notated map are included, and they make it easy to get back on track if you ever get lost. Inca is a terrific novel. Work of this calibre is rare in independent fiction, and indeed even any undertakings of this magnitude are hard to find. In Inca, Micks does more than tell a good story: he captures the flavour of an entire way of life, offers knowledge about a remarkable part of history, and shares something mysterious and exotic while making it relatable and real. Review: Great Historical Fiction Read - Great Historical Fiction Read reminiscent of Gary Jennings styled writings (which is a huge praise in its self). Characters known within Inca History expanded and developed to help one understand the devastation of the Incan Empire. Amazing character development interwoven with adventure & history. Will be reading his other books next. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,615,072 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2,215 in Biographical Historical Fiction #3,126 in Cultural Heritage Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 406 Reviews | ## Images ![Inca - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51LT7J+Cs1L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ As grand and ambitious as the Inca themselves *by M***B on August 24, 2011* I found Inca to be a remarkable story on two levels. On one, it provides a complete history of the Inca empire's final decades, full of lush cultural detail that prompted me to take a long online tour of Incan artwork, and bump Peru up several places on my travel-to-do list. Woven into this is a personal story of ambition, power struggles, and the relationship between a father and son - and though it takes place in an empire now centuries dead, the humanity that drives it is universal. In popular knowledge and culture, the Inca are underrepresented for some reason. Most people probably picture them as being mostly similar to the more popular Aztec - at least I know I did before reading this novel. But in reality, with one of the world's biggest mountain ranges between them, the Inca and Aztec people had very little in common. The Incan empire was one of the greatest of its time, and learning more about it - from its solid gold gardens to its deadly obsidian labyrinth - was consistently fascinating. The broadest and most interesting fact conveyed by the novel defies one of the few pieces of common wisdom about the Inca, which is that the invading Spanish were the sole authors of their destruction. In truth, as the novel reveals, the empire's strength had been waning for some time, and violent internal discord was beginning to break it up before the first white man ever reached their shores. Accordingly, the bulk of the novel takes place before the Spanish arrive, and shows us that their invasion was only the last in a string of catastrophes. We see all this through the eyes of Haylli Yupanki, whom we meet when he still bears his child name, Waccha. The novel takes us from his upbringing and his coming of age through to his elder years as one of the most quietly influential men in a dying empire. Haylli is deeply inspired by his father, and driven also by a fierce sense of passion and competition. His nemesis, the warrior-prodigy Chalcucima, motivates him to distinguish himself in unique ways by using his natural intelligence and cunning, and Haylli fights Chalcucima in many battles both friendly and unfriendly. It is nearly impossible to provide a summary of Inca's storyline and cast of characters, spanning decades and generations as they do, but that is for the best: the joy of the story comes from living with Haylli, sharing the surprise of new encounters and the memories of old ones, and watching the evolution of relationships that last a lifetime. There is much change to be witnessed, for Haylli is the kind of person who grows from an unsure boy into a man who (I won't tell you how or why) pushes his all-powerful emperor out of a window. The amount of research that went into Inca is staggering. In conveying all that knowledge, Micks strikes the perfect balance: staying committed to accuracy without getting bogged down in details or feeling like a textbook. The story is well-paced and never boring, and at times it pleasantly diverts into intriguing locations like the Chaski messenger school, where trainees climb a mountain with whips at their back. The challenge is in the complexity of a story with such an epic scale: there are many characters, relationships and locations at play, and keeping everything straight can at times seem daunting. Luckily, a thorough glossary and a notated map are included, and they make it easy to get back on track if you ever get lost. Inca is a terrific novel. Work of this calibre is rare in independent fiction, and indeed even any undertakings of this magnitude are hard to find. In Inca, Micks does more than tell a good story: he captures the flavour of an entire way of life, offers knowledge about a remarkable part of history, and shares something mysterious and exotic while making it relatable and real. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Historical Fiction Read *by H***Y on February 25, 2022* Great Historical Fiction Read reminiscent of Gary Jennings styled writings (which is a huge praise in its self). Characters known within Inca History expanded and developed to help one understand the devastation of the Incan Empire. Amazing character development interwoven with adventure & history. Will be reading his other books next. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful story and a great intro to Inca history. *by C***R on May 9, 2018* I loved this book. I own a tour service in Bolivia and read it on my kindle on nights I was trekking through areas the story was set in. For that and for the wonderful story (beautiful relationships) it was one of the best reading experiences I've had in years. While a work of fiction, Geoff Micks drew from much of the evidence we have of the Inca and created a perfect tapestry from which to set out and explore the histories with a sense of bearing and perspective. For this reason I now recommend this book to many of my clients looking to further their understanding of pre-Hispanic history. There is only one thing I found fault with in this book. Having lived in Andean culture for years the behavior was sometimes implausible from a cultural context, although I would expect that from anyone who hadn't spent many years living here. Great research. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/79996679-inca](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/79996679-inca) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*