Octubre 2019

An action-packed chronicle follows the steps of explorers such as John Franklin, Elisha Kent Kane, Fridtjof Nansen, and Robert Edwin Peary, reconstructing one of the last great epics of humanity.

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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

El califato de Rashidun se caracteriza por un período de veinticinco años de rápida expansión militar, seguido de un período de luchas internas de cinco años. El ejército Rashidun en su apogeo contaba con más de 100, 000 hombres. En la década de 650, el califato, además de la Península Arábiga, había subyugado el Levante, al Transcaucaso en el norte; Norte de África desde Egipto hasta la actual Túnez en el oeste; y la meseta iraní a partes de Asia Central y Asia del Sur en el este. El califato abasí fue el tercero de los califatos islámicos en suceder al profeta islámico...