Los Protocolos de la Villa de Nuestra Señora Santa Anna de Camargo. 1762-1809.

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...

Más que cronista o historiador, confidente casi, Álvaro Vargas Llosa nos lleva en esta obra apasionante a sentir el latido del corazón de Francisca, la hija mestiza de Pizarro--fruto de sus amores con la princesa inca Inés Huaylas. A lo largo de los años, ante los ojos de la joven heredera de dos mundos se suceden episodios capitales en la historia de la España Moderna y la conquista del Perú: la división indígena, los enfrentamientos entre los conquistadores, el riesgo de sedición, la constitución del poder virreinal ... Una vida cuyo destino final es sorprendente.--Descripción...

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Completo y riguroso panorama de las previsiones que, hechas por expertos en distintos campos, afectan al futuro más inmediato de nuestro planeta, desde la ecología y la demografía a la nanotecnología y la exploración espacial.