54 Cicatrices

Examines the life and times of Manuelita Saenz, discussing her youth in Ecuador, her marriage to James Thorne, her relationship with revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar, and her later life of destitution. Includes a chronology.

Vintage Herakles nace con la idea de ofrecer al público grandes éxitos de ayer sobre caza, aventuras e hitos deportivos publicados por esta editorial. Con esta idea, hemos querido respetar el diseño original para rendir así un homenaje al pasado. En leopardos den la noche Guy Muldoon relata sus aventuras y cacerías en las selvas africanas de Niassa.

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí; he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life after the defeat of the Spanish and who called the Congress of Panama in hopes of making real his dream of uniting all the South American...

Important work not only to know the trajectory of Jaime Torres Bodet but also the ins and outs of his thinking and an era in the history of Mexico of which he was the protagonist. The author, Fernando Zertuche, presents a broad view of Jaime's life; since his formative years and the awakening of his young literary vocation, his time in Universidad Nacional with people like Ezequiel A. Chvez and Jos Vasconcelos, his experience working for the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of Public Education, until his very last days of life. He highlights his many facets as intellectual and...

"Mi vida a traves de mi obra literaria" es un extenso libro que escribi hace 18 anos, en 1997. En el transcribo los trabajos literarios mas sobresalientes que fui escribiendo hasta esa fecha, segun mi fundado criterio. Ellos son lo suficientemente expresivos para hablaros de mi humilde peregrinaje por el mundo. Se trata pues de una antologia autobiografica en la que se reflejan mis sentimientos mas sentidos y mi mas hondo e intimo personalismo.