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Author Aimard, Gustave

Title Last of the Incas : a Romance of the Pampas
Published Auckland : The Floating Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Contents Title; Contents; Chapter I -- The Bomberos; Chapter II -- El Carmen; Chapter III -- Don Torribio Carvajal; Chapter IV -- The Tree of Gualichu; Chapter V -- The Council of the Ulmens; Chapter VI -- Nocobotha; Chapter VII -- The Cougars; Chapter VIII -- The Estancia of San Julian; Chapter IX -- Don Sylvio d'Arenal; Chapter X -- The Virgin Forest; Chapter XI -- The Chase of The Ñandus; Chapter XII -- The Toldería.; Chapter XIII -- The Pampero; Chapter XIV -- Preparations for a Siege; Chapter XV -- A Brave Resolve; Chapter XVI -- The Invasion; Chapter XVII -- The Attack on Población del Sur
Chapter XVIII -- The Cave of the CougarsChapter XIX -- Don Torribio's House; Chapter XX -- The Indian Camp; Chapter XXI -- The Toldo of the Great Toqui; Chapter XXII -- Delilah; Chapter XXIII -- The Agony of a Town; Chapter XXIV -- The Last of the Incas
Summary The lush South American lowlands known as the Pampas have been the site of a tense tete-a-tete between the indigenous communities and the descendents of European settlers for centuries. Gustave Aimard's Last of the Incas is set against this backdrop, and recounts a period during which the tensions between the two groups boiled over
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Subject St. John, Percy Bolingbroke, 1821-1889, editor
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Form Electronic book
Author Wraxall, Lascelles
ISBN 9781776533879
1776533879