Tierra, mar y aire

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...

Desesperado intérprete de la mutación social de Italia, Pasolini ha tratado ininterrumpidamente de comunicar con su obra el fundamento de su herética trasgresión, pero sobre todo de sus sueños imposibles, de su ser como poeta. Con rigor metodológico y analítico, a través de un detallado estudio de sus escritos publicados en vida o póstumos, Martellini firma un denso retrato del último intelectual del siglo pasado. La crítica lúcida y apasionada que Pasolini acomete a través de una obra de registros complejos, desde la reivindicación poética de la lengua friulana, hasta una...

Los diarios de una princesa noble alemana sobre la familia, Dios y el amor; descubiertos tras su muerte a los 21 años en un accidente de tráfico.

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.