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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

Este libro establece las bases para dar a los chachapoya un espacio en la historia cultural de los Andes. Para ello se recurre a excavaciones arqueológicas, estudios etnohistóricos e investigaciones de antropología física y etnográfica. Se busca, con ello, reconstruir su historia. A partir del siglo IX, los chachapoya desarrollaron su propia cultura con una arquitectura monumental con frisos decorativos y una organización sociopolítica sustentada en cacicazgos o señoríos competitivos de gran alcance. Vivieron principalmente en asentamientos jerárquicos nucleares y construyeron...

David Roberts, nacido en Denver (Colorado) y graduado en al Universidad de Harvard, es autor de siete libros, entre los que destacan The Mountain of My Fear y Jean Stafford. A Biography. Es colaborador habitual de las revistas Men ́s Journal, Outside, American Photo, Smithsonian, Atlantic y National Geographic, entre otras publicaciones.