Juana Mandu La Valiente

"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the extraordinary experience of Auguste Guinnard, a young French immigrant who, around 1850, gets lost in the Pampas and is captured by native tribes who considered every foreigner a foe. Bound to a cruel slavery among the last nomads of Patagonia, Guinnard, was forced to sleep in the ground, and survive naked feeding from raw meat and fresh blood. In spite of being despised, and often chastised even by...

Una novela sobre el amor puro y la historia de toda una vida compartida. Este relato es la vida de dos vidas en una sola vida, es todo su contenido y mensaje; ha habido una unión total en estas dos vidas, en 60 años de convivencia, en todas sus facetas: de amor humano, espiritual, de comprensión, ayuda, respeto y entrega mutua.

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

Este libro se adentra en los apasionantes orígenes del periodismo de investigación en España, y lo hace a través de un acercamiento conciso y certero a cuatro de sus figuras más relevantes: Manuel Aznar Zubigaray, Rafael López Rienda, Víctor Ruiz Albéniz y, ante todo, Luis de Oteyza, intrépido director de La Libertad que en 1922 se jugó la vida cruzando el frente de batalla para entrevistar al líder rifeño Abd el-Krim, cuando este aún tenía en su poder a centenares de soldados españoles.