Urdaneta y el Tornaviaje

Es realmente excepcional, en cualquier profesión, que se mantenga una tradición familiar durante más de tres siglos, y que el nivel alcanzado siga siendo alto: este es el caso de una dinastía de marinos, vascos y españoles, que durante varias generaciones y del siglo XVI al XVIII llegaron a almirantes de la Armada. Don Miguel de Oquendo y Segura, fundador de tal dinastía, no inició su andadura histórica desde una situación privilegiada, que entonces determinaba el destino de cualquier persona, sino desde la muy modesta condición de grumete y de calafate. Operario de las reparaciones ...

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Marco Polo, el icono universal de la aventura y el descubrimiento, ha inspirado más de seis siglos de fascinación popular y de mitologías espurias. Es el más celebrado de los exploradores europeos a Asia, el primer viajero global y el más antiguo de los puentes entre Oriente y Occidente. Sin embargo, su historia es poco conocida y las fuentes originales escritas en más de media docena de lenguas han sido a penas consultadas. En esta brillante obra, la primera biografía realmente documentada de una de las figuras más fascinantes de la historia, Laurence Bergreen reconstruye la odisea...

With contributions by well-known and respected critics, writing of a very high caliber, and essays that explore hitherto uncharted territory, Mirrors and Echoes is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Spanish women's writing. Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women"

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