Perú y Bolivia. Relato de viaje

?Un libro que no sólo brinda respuestas sino que además desvela las más fabulosas preguntas. Una obra que abrirá los ojos a sus lectores a un pasado que puede ser muy diferente a cómo nos lo han contado? (Revista Clave 7, junio de 2012) Objetos cuya existencia es indudable pero que, precisamente por eso, contradicen las leyes científicas y obligan a reescribir la historia y a dudar de lo que nos han contado. ¿Puede existir una pila eléctrica con más de 2.000 años de antigüedad? ¿Es probable que haya cráneos prehistóricos que presenten heridas de bala? ¿Y una esfera cuya...

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

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Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...