Mirrors and Echoes

Organizado de manera sencilla a partir de la progresión a través del tiempo, cada mapa no sólo constituye a menudo una obra de arte maravillosa por derecho propio, sino que además nos informa acerca de nuestra percepción cambiante de la tierra. Con la difusión de los rumores de nuevos descubrimientos, continentes imprecisos empezaron a ser representados en los márgenes del mundo, a menudo como ierras desconocidas. En el siglo XVIII, en los mapas de África todavía figuraba una escueta anotación para referirse al interior del continente: aíses jamás explorados por europeos. Los...

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Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R. Markham. The translation is from the Spanish edition of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, published Madrid, 1882. Also includes 'Eight chronological tables ... compiled by P. A. Means'; 'List of words in the names of kings and Incas ...' and 'Quichua words in Montesinos'. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1920.

Los Esclavos de Yucatán es el primero de los reportajes que forman México Bárbaro, en él, Kennet Turner describe la brutal explotación en las haciendas henequeneras de la península del sureste mexicano