Pepe Ravelo

More has been written about Lorca than about any other Spanish writer except Cervantes. In an attempt to explain when, how and why one of the most important poets of the 20th century was murdered, Ian Gibson's exhaustive research tries to uncover the truth about one of Spain's Civil War's biggest mysteries ? the death by shooting of Federico Garc?a Lorca by Nationalist thugs. Gibson's biography of Lorca is currently the front-runner for the definitive Lorca biography.

Un relato emocionante de la acción conjunta y desinteresada de un grupo de voluntarios guiados por la idea de construir "otro mundo".

El libro trata de los personajes vascos de proyección universal del Siglo XVI y de sus realizaciones. Pero no solamente de los grandes personajes, sino también de aquellos otros que estuvieron a su lado en cualquier suceso histórico relevante o protagonizaron otras gestas que no han merecido el fervor popular. Personajes segundones, más humildes, pero enormemente atractivos, como el bermeano Acurio, el cura Areyzaga, el contramaestre Txantxu, el hernaniarra Juan de Urbieta, Martín López el de los bergantines de México, los mártires Martín de la Ascensión y Domingo Ibáñez de...

The correspondence in this brief collection tells of journeys, separations, fantasies, and misunderstandings experienced by the colorful Arthur Cravan, all written to his wife Mina Loy prior to his mysterious disappearance in the Gulf of Mexico. The complete and partial letters and postcards are not mere love letters but rather an introduction to a true character who embodied the worries, activities, and audacities of early 20th-century culture. Even though Mina did not love Arthur at first, it is quite apparent in the content of this book that he was completely struck by her immediately. La...