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A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

Lepanto. Solo el nombre de esta batalla nos trae a la memoria el cruento choque de civilizaciones que en el pasado enfrentó al islam y la cristiandad. Un momento dramático en el que el destino de Occidente se jugó a una sola carta. “La más alta ocasión que vieron los tiempos”, según observara Miguel de Cervantes, malherido en el combate. Fue una victoria colosal. En toda Europa se tuvo la sensación de que el invencible Imperio Otomano había sido frenado en su imparable avance hacia el Oeste. Italia, directamente amenazada respiró tranquila. Felipe II pudo mostrar que la...

One of the main purposes behind this book is to reveal which images have come down to us concerning Arabic culture in general and al-Andalus in particular, through translations by Spanish Arabists. This book analyzes the paratexts of a wide-ranging corpus of translations published during the last two centuries by the foremost figures in traditional Spanish Arabism.

This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this...