El Caballo de Miguel

Elena de Céspedes que en el siglo XVI se convirtió en la primera mujer cirujano, la descubridora y aventurera Isabel Barreto de Mendaña, que por aquella misma época pasó a la historia como la primera mujer Almirante, Catalina Erauso Pérez, conocida como "La Monja Alférez". Soldado, aventurera y comerciante. Concepción Arenal, escritora y feminista, Hannah Snell "Marine" de S.M. británica en el S XVIII, Jeanne Baret, la científica que dio la vuelta al mundo vestida de hombre hace dos siglos y medio, carpintera naval, escritora, aventurera y viajera o Miss Margaret Ann Bulkley, que...

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A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

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...