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"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.

En breves e irreverentes anécdotas, en las que la acidez y el humor se desbordan sin timidez, México bizarro retrata un país tan surrealista que lo mismo tiene sabor a chiste que a pesadilla. En sus páginas se encuentran episodios como aquel en que una vidente fue contratada por un fiscal para resolver un homicidio, el exótico cortejo fúnebre a la pierna de Santa Anna, la huelga de hambre de un expresidente que dejó al país en la quiebra, la rodilla que Sara García se fracturó a propósito para ser la eterna abuela del cine, la trágica vida de la Mataviejitas y la funesta ocasión...

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...