100 dioses del Olimpo

The most in-depth, perceptive and authoritative portrait of Anne Frank's life that we shall ever have.nbsp;nbsp;A remarkably perceptive, definite account of Anne Frank's life and posthumous fame. Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl is the most widely read work of non-fiction after the Bible.nbsp;nbsp;Yet, remarkably, there has never been an in-depth biography of the teenage writer who perished in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. Written with the full co-operation of Anne Frank's surviving family, El Diario de Ana Frank is the most authoritative record we shall ever have of the short...

Durante el tiempo que pas en las islas portuguesas de Porto Santo y Madeira, Cristbal Coln, un navegante de Gnova, estuvo a cargo de un marinero moribundo, de Castilla, cuya carabela haba sido llevado por la corriente del Golfo de Guinea a un mar remoto, posiblemente el Caribe. En su lecho de muerte, este hombre haba dicho Columbus el secreto de algunas tierras donde haban llegado siberianos durante el Pleistoceno y algunos documentos sobre algunos de los posibles viajes anteriores. Este marinero asegur que esas tierras que haba logrado llevado por las corrientes eran los mismos que se...

Conheça a arrebatadora história de Josefina, a jovem crioula que se tornou imperatriz de França. O futuro não parecia promissor para a jovem da Martinica que fora abandonada em Paris pelo marido aristocrata. Contudo, sempre engenhosa e determinada a manter-se na sociedade parisiense, procurou refúgio num convento, onde sublimou a voz rouca e a graciosidade sensual que se tornaram os seus poderosos atributos. No período de Terror que se seguiu à Revolução, Josefina sobreviveu ao cativeiro e emergiu como figura central de um universo de festas profundamente mundanas. Inebriante,...

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.