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Author
Series
Colección Leer en español volume 4
Publisher
Universidad de Salamanca y Santillana
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
Español
2) El entenado
Author
Series
Colección Dedalus volume 7
Publisher
Ediciones Lanzallamas
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Un grumete parte en una expedición a territorios rioplatenses en el siglo XVI, y en la misma es capturado por una tribu indígena, en el seno de la cual presencia actos innombrables que recordará el resto de su vida. Lo que no es fácil de reducir en El entenado, obra maestra de Juan José Saer, es el cúmulo de temas que este viaje despierta en el recuerdo del grumete, y en el de nosotros los lectores, que sin duda nos toparemos con las aguas...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
Español
Description
"&Uml;..porque la locura mayor de esta edad del mundo la concibio temprano Pedro de Ursúa: la ambicion desmesurada de conquistar la selva de las Amazonas y dominar la serpiente de agua que la atraviesa¨. Quince años despues de viajar con Francisco de Orellana en la búsqueda inútil del País de la Canela, un veterano se suma a la expedicion que Pedro de Ursúa planea para conquistar los pedazos de selva que gobierna pero que conoce solo a traves...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Detr�as de todo h�eroe hay un hombre. Detr�as de toda leyenda, una realidad. Antonio P�erez Henares rebate el absolutismo de la Leyenda Negra en esta magn�ifica novela hist�orica que recrea la fascinante vida de �Alvar N�u�nez Cabeza de Vaca, el espa�nol que mejor comprendi�o el modo de vida ind�igena en el siglo XVI. Esta novela nos conduce a trav�es de una vida de leyenda. Desde que el joven �Alvar, hu�erfano de sangre...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped at sea by conquistadors seeking the golden land of Peru, a young Inca boy named Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Forced to become Francisco Pizarro's translator, he finds himself caught up in one of history's great clashes of civilzations, the Spanish invasion of the Incan Empire of the 1530s. To survive, he must not only learn political gamesmanship but also discover who he truly is, and in what country and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"... Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America- a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán...
8) Morning Girl
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
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