Insurgentes

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La historia puede ser muy, pero muy aburrida. Con desabridas genealogías monárquicas, crónicas tediosas, miles de batallas y cero gracia. Hasta ahora. Si en el primer volumen de Historia Universal Freak fue el turno de la Prehistoria, la Edad Media y demases, ahora es el turno de la modernidad. Desde Napoleón hasta nuestros días te enterarás de que gracias a ese emperador –que era en realidad más alto que el francés medio de la época– contamos con comida enlatada, pues ofreció un premio a quien solucionara el dilema de la conservación de la comida en campañas largas. Y que...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...