Epic History of the Incas

, by Silva, Yesenia; Kusunoki, Ricardo; Rucabado, Julio; Villanueva, Patricia; Pardo, Cecilia

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ISBN: 9786124450617 | 6124450615
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/1/2025

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Jointly created by Pichoncito Fly Books and Lima’ s Art Museum – MALI– , Epic history of incas is a comprehensive illustrated exploration of the wonderful universe of the Incas. Readers will discover how this impressive civilization emerged; who created it and how; what monuments were built; how resources were administered; what the daily life in the empire looked like; how ferocious its armies were and why it ceased to exist. Incas. Una gran historia narrates the rise and fall of South America’ s largest empire for children for the first time, incorporating the latest research and discoveries.

Yesenia Silva is a researcher, writer and editor of children's books. She studied communications and journalism, yet her main focus has been publishing. She holds a master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and is conducting a study on reading spaces. Ricardo Kusunoki is associate Curator of Colonial and Republican Art at Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). He holds a bachelor's degree Art History (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2005) and is candidate for a master’ s degree in the same specialty at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He was a member of the Peruvian team of the Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art Project at the International Center for the Arts of the Americas – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2008-2009). He is currently curator of Colonial and Republican Art at the MALI. Julio Rucabado is curator of Pre-Hispanic Art at Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). He holds a master’ s degree in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology (United States). He holds a bachelor’ s degree in Humanities with a mention in Archaeology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). He has worked at the Pachacamac Site Museum as Head of the Collections Registration and Management area since 2013. He has produced various academic publications on the art and archaeology of societies on the northern coast of ancient Peru. Patricia Villanueva is a visual artist, curator and teacher, gold medal-graduated from the specialty of Plastic Arts at the Escuela Superior de Arte Corriente Alterna- under the direction of Luis Lama in 1998 in Lima, Peru. She has exhibited her work in multiple in Peru and abroad. She was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Scholarship in 2001; she was granted the Passport for an Artist Award in 2001 and in 2005 recieved the UNESCO- Aschberg Scholarship, amongst other distinctions. In January 2016 she joined the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) as Curator of Educational Projects. Cecilia Pardo is a curator, researcher and specialist in museum management. She obtained her bachelor’ s degree in Archaeology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP, 2000) and a master’ s degree in Museology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College, University of London (2004). She has a PhD degree from the Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, in the United Kingdom. She was the main curator of the exhibition Peru. A Journey in Time presented at the British Museum. She is currently a researcher and assistant professor at Universidad del Pacifico.

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