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The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

Muy utilizadas y apreciadas desde hace varios siglos, las especias forman parte de nuestra vida, tanto en el ámbito de la belleza como en el mundo de la decoración y la cocina. Pero ¿qué sabemos exactamente de estos sabores exóticos y lejanos, aunque familiares, que aromatizan nuestro día a día? A lo largo de estas páginas, magníficamente ilustradas, Chantal de Rosamel y Volkhard Heinrichs nos transportan en el tiempo y el espacio para contarnos la formidable epopeya de las especias, desde China hasta la península arábica y hacia la cuenca mediterránea. Así, nos explican: - la...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Presents a history of Classical antiquity and features illustrations, maps, diagrams, and statistical tables.