Choquequirao

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

El descubrimiento de las Fuentes del Nilo, la expedición Malaspina, las visitas de tribus vikingas a tierras del Guadalquivir, Blas de Lezo, el «Lago Español»... y otros acontecimientos singulares que permanecen olvidados en la Historia de España. Muchos conocemos que Felipe II dispuso la Armada Invencible para castigar a Inglaterra por sus acciones de piratería y ataques a las colonias españolas... y que fracasó; pero ¿quiénes saben que Inglaterra sufrió su mayor derrota naval a manos de Blas de Lezo, que contaba con un soldado español por cada diez ingleses? O que Malaspina...

De la colección Nudos de la Historia argentina, este libro despliega los orígenes del peronismo y la construcción del 17 de octubre como mito fundacional.

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