Los cinco libros de la Diana enamorada. Compuestos por Gaspar Gil Polo. Dirigidas à mi Señora Doña Isabela Sutton, por el que ha corregido, y enmendad

Me fascinan las grandes historias, y no las hay mejores que las vividas en grandes cascarones de madera flotantes durante los siglos XV y XVI. En aquella época el mundo estaba aún por descubrir, todo era posible. Hombres de coraje y espíritu temerario se aventuraban hacia lo desconocido a través de océanos insondables, sin saber qué les depararía el oleaje.Por eso no dudé en emularlos cuando se me presentó la oportunidad de embarcarme como voluntario en el Galeón Andalucía, una réplica que hoy surca los mares del globo. Trabajé y aprendí a marchas forzadas sobre sus cubiertas,...

This is the first book to study the taina presence in Puerto Rican literature. It examines Fray Ramon Pane, Sadi Orsini Luiggi, Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Cayetano Coll y Toste, Rene Marques, Jaime Martinez Tolentino, Carlos Mendez Santos, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Enrique A. Laguerre and Manuel Mendez Ballester. The book is in Spanish.

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

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