12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud

“One of these is the Spaniard Juan de Battansos. He was one of the few Spaniards who became fluent in the Inca language of Quechua and married an Inca Princess... Bertansos's knowledge of the Inca language, his interviews with his wife, and his exceptional understanding of the culture of the Andes led to a book called The Narrative of the Incas, which relates Inca history as told to him.”