Books
Kim MacQuarrie is a four-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, anthropologist, and author of four critically acclaimed nonfiction books. He spent five years living in Peru, where he worked with Indigenous Amazonian communities and developed a deep interest in the Inca Empire and Andean civilizations.
His best-known work, The Last Days of the Incas, has become a classic of historical nonfiction and was selected as a History Book Club and Military Book Club main selection, a Kiriyama Prize notable book, and an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.
MacQuarrie’s most recent book, Life and Death in the Andes (Simon & Schuster), traces a 4,500-mile journey through South America and explores the legacies of figures such as Pablo Escobar, Che Guevara, Charles Darwin, and the Inca Ice Maiden.
He is currently at work on a new book about how civilizations rise, fall, and evolve—linking the past to the systems reshaping our future.
