In the canon
Royal Commentaries of the Incas
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1609
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 640
Cuzco, in the language of the Incas, means navel: the centre of the world. The man who tells us so was born there, the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca princess, and as a boy he sat among his mother's kin while they mourned an empire that had fallen within living memory.
I promise to tell plainly the account I drank in with my mother's milk.
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