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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...

Presents a history of Classical antiquity and features illustrations, maps, diagrams, and statistical tables.

Abril de 1937: el asedio al Santuario de la Cabeza de Andújar se salda con doscientos muertos; muchos son mujeres y niños. Allí desapareció una familia compuesta por un matrimonio y sus cinco hijas. Sus cuerpos reposan en un cementerio de tumbas sin nombre. Tres décadas después, en otro pueblo de la provincia surge un misterio que aún nadie ha logrado resolver; unas efigies atormentadas afloran en el suelo de una cocina de pastores. En los rostros, gestados por las zonas oscuras del cemento, no hay pintura ni añadidos. Un imposible cuyo eco alcanzará las portadas de todos los...

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.