Hierro y sangre

Una publicación que rescata los episodios gloriosos y gestas heroicas que componen la historia de Puebla; los triunfos y derrotas que han contribuido a formar la identidad del estado y de la nación. Este libro es una memoria a los acontecimientos que han quedado grabados en la memoria colectiva de los mexicanos.

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The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

Esta antología recaba testimonios en torno al descubrimiento cultural de los pueblos del Nuevo Mundo. Las fuentes, que van de 1492 al siglo XVIII y del estrecho de Magallanes a la isla de Nutka, incluyen a Colón, Vespuccio, Díaz del Castillo, Motolinía, el Inca Garcilaso y Moziño, quienes, junto a otros frailes, juristas, soldados y marineros, dan su testimonio directo de lo americano: el paisaje, los aborígenes, las mujeres, los dioses, las vestiduras, las virtudes, los vicios. Esta nueva edición, de la original de 1963, incluye prólogo de Pablo Escalante, bibliografía actualizada y ...