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Bette A. Reagan provides a time line of the major events in the life of American novelist Rebecca Blaine Davis (1831-1910). Reagan includes a discussion of Davis' writings.

In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humour, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned.

Calusas, timucuanos, guales, semnolas, creeks, were some of the tribes of Florida at the time when Pedro Menndez de Avils established there the settlement of San Agustn, the oldest city in the United States. Strong and ferocious warriors, who lived in almost permanent state of war and mutilated their enemies or made them slaves, offered a strong resistance to the Spanish who stepped on their territory. However, these, in exchange for many lives, hardships and suffering, managed to settle on their shores. That was the task in which the Asturian sailor insisted on starting in 1565, the...

Muchas son las biografías que se han escrito y publicado desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta nuestros días de D. Antonio Ros de Olano, General de los Ejércitos, conde de la Almina, marqués de Guad-El-Jelú, Vizconde de Ros y el mejor gallista del mundo y tatarabuelo materno del autor. En esta obra, se ofrece una semblanza del General, no otra biografía más, en la que se aportan datos y revelaciones inéditas hasta ahora y se ponen de manifiesto los aspectos más relevantes de su vida familiar desde su nacimiento en Caracas el 9 de noviembre de 1808 hasta su fallecimiento en Madrid el 24...