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In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood-each already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome-sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Pedro Álvares Cabral, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Comprender la relación de Pedro Álvares Cabral con la corte de Portugal, que lo lleva a reemplazar a Vasco de Gama en una de sus expediciones
• Analizar la carrera naval en la que se enfrascan España y Portugal para acceder a la ruta de las...
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The Spanish Conquest: What Really Happened?
Conquistador Voices is for readers, who might like to learn more about events related to the 15th-century "discovery" of the Americas by Europeans, events that were likely broad-brushed and sanitized in their schoolbooks. This two-volume set tells the stories of five important Spanish explorers or military leaders-Columbus and Cortés in vol I, and Pizarro, Soto, and Cabeza de Vaca in vol II.
The two volumes...
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Bestseller #1 de The New York Times: La verdadera historia de un equipo de rugby que recurre a lo inimaginable cuando su avión se estrella en los Andes. Reinaba el buen ánimo cuando el Fairchild F-227 despegó desde Mendoza, Argentina, con rumbo a Santiago, Chile. Había cuarenta y cinco pasajeros a bordo, entre ellos un equipo de rugby amateur uruguayo y los amigos y parientes de los jugadores. El cielo estaba despejado ese viernes 13 de octubre...
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La fabuleuse et incroyable histoire de Lucas Bridge, né et élevé au milieu d'un peuple indien aujourd'hui disparu
La première édition en 1948 de Aux Confins de la Terre, la merveilleuse chronique de E. Lucas Bridges sur la Terre de Feu, fut accueillie avec un immense enthousiasme et s'est imposée depuis soixante ans comme le grand classique littéraire sur la Terre de Feu et la culture peu connue des Indiens fuégiens.
Lucas Bridges naît...
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White Gold tells the story of a young American, John Hungjohann, who struggled for survival as a rubber cutter at the height of the rubber boom in the early years of this century. Editor Sir Ghillean prance, a leading expert on the rainforest, enhances the text with his own contemporary photographs and identifies the fungi, plants and animals mentioned in the pages of the diary. The diaries are especially poignant now since the rubber cutters are...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Pedro Álvares Cabral et la découverte du Brésil en moins d'une heure !
Portugal, le 9 mars 1500. Pedro Álvares Cabral, un navigateur peu expérimenté, quitte le port de Lisbonne, chargé par le roi Manuel Ier de suivre les pas de Vasco de Gama et d'aller aux Indes, afin d'en ramener de précieuses épices mais aussi d'y implanter un comptoir commercial au nom de la couronne portugaise.
Or, la...
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The Spanish Conquest: What Really Happened?
Conquistador Voices is for readers who might like to learn more about events related to the 15th-century "discovery" of the Americas by Europeans, events that were likely broad-brushed and sanitized in their schoolbooks. This two-volume set tells the stories of five important Spanish explorers or military leaders-Columbus and Cortés in vol I, and Pizarro, Soto, and Cabeza de Vaca in vol II.
The two volumes...
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With a new introduction, the acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history's greatest adventures of discovery, a legendary 16th-century explorer's death-defying navigation of the Amazon-the first complete exploration of the world's largest river by a European.
In 1541, the brutal Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off in search of La Canela, South America's rumored...
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