Trinche

Con este libro ponemos a disposición del lector un interesante conjunto de fotografías que ilustran, de forma inmejorable, lo que pudo ser la vida diaria en la Escuela de Ingenieros de Montes durante su etapa en San Lorenzo de El Escorial. En sus imágenes se reflejan tipos y personajes que ya no están entre nosotros, paisajes y objetos desaparecidos o profundamente trasformados, un pasado, en definitiva, que ya nunca volverá y que quedó atrapado, de forma casi milagrosa, gracias a una ciencia y unas técnicas entonces incipientes, desarrolladas en sus múltiples facetas, además de por...

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...

Esta coleccion, editada por Juana Ponce de Leon, recoge los escritos del Subcomandante Marcos presentandonos el problema de las comunidades indigenas que viven en la resistencia y luchan para la democracia usando como unica arma la palabra.

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...