Conquistadores

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

PATRICIO DE ROMA es una obra de narrativa histórica en la que se cuentan en primera persona las aventuras de un patricio romano, Cayo Emilio Flavio, contemporáneo de Octavio Augusto, que a su servicio y junto al arquitecto Marco Vitruvio, desarrolla en su primera etapa profesional como ingeniero civil, una serie de obras importantes de construcción e infraestructuras en diversos confines del Imperio, como el Limes Septentrional, cruzando Italia, Francia, Suiza y Alemania por la frontera del Rin, así como el Mediterráneo Oriental, Asia Menor, Egipto y el sur de Arabia. En su madurez asume ...

La epopeya de aquellos que osaron entrar en los lugares de Asia vedados a los occidentales: de aquellos que sobrevivieron y alcanzaron la gloria y de los que fueron descubiertos y asesinados. La mayor cualidad que debe tener un explorador, alguien que pretende hollar territorios desconocidos, es la paciencia, la capacidad de continuar aun cuando todo alrededor te insta a parar. Exploraciones secretas de Asia es un libro sobre aquellos que no se detuvieron ni cuando su vida estaba realmente amenazada, sobre aquellos que se atrevieron a pisar aquellas tierras donde no eran bien recibidos y que...