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In December 1997, a man-eating Siberian tiger is roaming outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger is killing people and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the frigid cold temperature. As the hunters sift through the remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random. An absolutely fascinating tale of man and nature that leads to a final showdown in the deep clearing woods.

En 365 Días alrededor del Mundo. Es una ventisca de lugares del planeta, Desde el Faro de Alejandría, Jardines colgantes de Babilonia, La leyenda del Dorado, La Gran Muralla China, Pattadakal, Estambul, Venecia, El Amazonas, Everglades, La Grande Barrera Coralina, Los llanos Orientales, El Himalaya, El templo del cielo, El Kilimanjaro, La Patagonia, El Delta del Mekong, Moscú, Sydney, El tren de las nubes, La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Machu Picchu, La Kaaba, Las Cataratas de Iguazú, La Atlántida, Laponia, Kyoto, Lumbini, Tipasa, en fi n hasta recorrer lugares encantadores de nuestro...

The first in a series of three novels based upon actual episodes in Lord Byron’s life, this engrossing tale is full of ambition, seduction, and historical legacy. Studious young Eliza Esmond is overjoyed when she meets a man whom she believes to be Lord Byron and he begins to pursue her. What she is unaware of is that this man is actually John Polidori, Byron’s former personal doctor who is also, however, the true author of the latest success credited to Byron: the story “The Vampyre,” envisioned during the same summer gathering of intellectuals in 1816 during which Mary Shelley’s...

En su libro, Brian Fagan muestra que los cambios medioambientales, por muy pequeños que éstos parezcan, han tenido consecuencias en la vida de los seres humanos. Fagan trenza dos relatos - el que refleja la investigación científica, gracias a la cual, a partir de pistas aisladas, se reconstruyen las características climáticas de hace siglos y el desarrollo de los acontecimientos históricos.