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¿Qué encontró el coronel Percy H. Fawcett en la sección de Obras Raras de la Biblioteca Nacional de Río de Janeiro, para que desde ese instante dedicara su vida a la búsqueda de una enigmática ciudad perdida en las entrañas de la selva amazónica? ¿Por qué el arqueólogo nazi Otto Rahn recorrió durante años los enclaves cátaros convencido de que el Grial se ocultaba en alguna de las cuevas repartidas por la montañosa región? ¿Cuáles fueron los motivos que llevaron a Shackleton a emprender la mayor aventura jamás imaginada, en la que sólo le aguardaba la muerte? Éstos son...

More has been written about Lorca than about any other Spanish writer except Cervantes. In an attempt to explain when, how and why one of the most important poets of the 20th century was murdered, Ian Gibson's exhaustive research tries to uncover the truth about one of Spain's Civil War's biggest mysteries ? the death by shooting of Federico Garc?a Lorca by Nationalist thugs. Gibson's biography of Lorca is currently the front-runner for the definitive Lorca biography.

As some of the first punks in the provincial English town of Crawley, Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith didn't have it easy. They bonded over a mutual love for music and became The Easy Cure--later shortened to The Cure--, a band whose songs would inspire a deep sense of identification and empathy in listeners.

Martin Fierro, the argentine poem, has been subject to numerous ideology biased interpretations. This appropriation, sometimes outrageous, has spurred the discussion whether Martin Fierro or Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo should be considered in orderto bring the Argentine society into a just, peaceful civil terrain. To read Quiroga Lavie's biography of Jose Hernandez means delving into the mind of an earnest, law abiding scholar, that nevertheless falls into the same trap of romanticizing the roguish characteristics with complete disregard of the fact that Martin Fierro's advise to his sons, ...