Soy como el río, Nilo

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...

Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later, she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831 feet) in Peru. In 1911, just...

La de Pere Anguera es la primera biografía de Prim que, gracias a un minucioso estudio de sus campañas electorales y de sus intervenciones tanto en el Senado como en el Congreso de los Diputados, reconstruye con detalle la evolución de su pensamiento político y nos ofrece una imagen acabada y completa tanto del militar de éxito como del ministro astuto, habilidoso y sobre todo consciente de la importancia de su popularidad

«Una verdadera heroína.» Greta Thunberg El mundo necesita más que nunca un manifiesto para la esperanza. La naturalista y conservacionista de renombre mundial Jane Goodall ha pasado más de medio siglo advirtiendo sobre nuestro impacto en el planeta. Desde sus famosos encuentros con chimpancés en los bosques de Gombe cuando era joven hasta su incansable campaña por el medio ambiente a finales de los ochenta, Jane se ha convertido en la madrina de una nueva generación de activistas climáticos. En El libro de la esperanza, Jane se basa en la sabiduría de toda una vida dedicada a la...