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In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America's rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, "the golden man". Driving an enormous retinue of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting dogs, and other animals across the Andes, they watched their proud expedition begin to disintegrate even before they descended into the nightmarish jungle, following the course of a powerful river.

On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The lone man arrested the next morning later swore allegiance to a group called Shining Path. Described by a US State Department cable as "cold-blooded and bestial", Shining Path orchestrated bombings, assassinations, and massacres across the cities, countryside, and jungles of Peru in a murderous campaign to seize power and impose a Communist government.

In 1532, the 54-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother, Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca.

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

A Flower Traveled in My Blood is the rarest of nonfiction that reads like a novel and puts your heart in your throat. It is the product of years of extensive archival research and meticulous, original reporting. It marks the arrival of a blazing new talent in narrative journalism. In this audiobook, a regime tries to terrorize a country, but love prevails. The grandmothers’ stunning stories reveal new truths about memory, identity, and family.

A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to find out what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z.

Presidentes Argentinos Volumen I: Una Mirada Íntima a los Líderes del País (1826-1880) "Presidentes Argentinos Volumen I: Una Mirada Íntima a los Líderes del País (1826-1880)" es una fascinante exploración de los líderes que forjaron el destino de Argentina en el siglo XIX. Este libro no solo recorre los acontecimientos políticos y las decisiones trascendentales, sino que también revela las vidas personales, las pasiones, los conflictos y los triunfos de los presidentes argentinos. Desde Bernardino Rivadavia hasta Nicolás Avellaneda, cada presidente es presentado con detalle, ...

Presidentes Argentinos Volumen II: Una Mirada Intima a los Líderes del País (1880-1904) El Volumen II de "Presidentes Argentinos" ofrece un fascinante recorrido por la vida y los tiempos de los presidentes que guiaron a Argentina durante la crucial Generación del 80. Desde Julio Argentino Roca hasta José Evaristo Uriburu, cada líder es presentado con detalle, explorando no solo sus logros políticos, sino también sus vidas personales, motivaciones y desafíos internos. A través de una exhaustiva investigación y el uso de fuentes primarias, este libro humaniza a estos líderes, ...

Este libro ofrece un recorrido fascinante por la vida y legado de los presidentes argentinos desde Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear hasta Pedro Pablo Ramírez, un período crucial en la historia del país marcado por transformaciones políticas, sociales y económicas. Más allá de los hechos históricos, este relato se adentra en la dimensión humana de los líderes que moldearon la Argentina. Descubra sus pasiones, sus temores, los sacrificios personales y las decisiones trascendentales que definieron sus presidencias. Desde la serenidad aristocrática de Alvear hasta el complejo período del ...

"Presidentes Argentinos Volumen III: Una Mirada Íntima a los Líderes del País (1904-1922)" explora una de las épocas más transformadoras de la historia argentina. Desde el ocaso de la presidencia de Julio A. Roca hasta el surgimiento de Hipólito Yrigoyen como el primer líder electo por sufragio universal, este volumen ofrece un recorrido detallado y profundamente humano sobre los líderes que moldearon la política nacional en los albores del siglo XX. Con acceso a documentos poco conocidos y una narrativa que combina rigor histórico con sensibilidad, el autor revela las ...

Presidentes Argentinos: Una Mirada Íntima a los Líderes del País (1944–1970) es un viaje revelador a través de uno de los períodos más convulsionados de la historia argentina. Desde los últimos años de la Década Infame hasta el auge y caída de Perón, pasando por dictaduras militares, gobiernos provisorios y breves ensayos democráticos, este libro ofrece un retrato profundo y humano de los hombres que ocuparon la Casa Rosada entre 1944 y 1970. Más allá de los hechos históricos, esta obra busca entender a los presidentes como personas: sus miedos, sus decisiones, sus ...

Un tesoro marcado con sangre. Un amor unido por el tiempo y los secretos. Una historia quebrada por una tierra que se muestra implacable. Sinopsis Jael Schülz, una joven alemana, escapa de su país luego de finalizada la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ella, junto a su familia, emprende un viaje al fin del mundo donde se labra un futuro, buscando unir ambas culturas. En su intento de surgir, conoce a Román Morales, un joven profesor que compartirá su particular visión del mundo y le enseñará, que en el lugar menos esperado el amor se abre paso. En esta historia, el amor, las casualidades, los...

Pablo Escobar was a mama’s boy who cherished his family and sang in the shower, yet he bombed a passenger plane and formed a death squad that used genital electrocution. Most Escobar biographies only provide a few pieces of the puzzle, but this action-packed 1000-page book reveals everything about the king of cocaine.

After a long pre-history, the actual Cuban revolutionary war itself only lasted, incredibly, a little more than two years, from Dec 2, 1956, to January 1, 1959 - from the disastrous first battle, in which three-quarters of the expeditionary force of 82 revolutionaries that traveled to Cuba on the Granma were killed, to total victory at the beginning of January 1959. And there is no better account of the war than this little book by guerilla leader Che Guevara.

¿Cuál es el origen del Jiu-Jitsu Brasileño? ¿Es simplemente un derivado (un descendiente rebelde) del Judo? ¿Cuál era la naturaleza y el contenido del arte que Mitsuyo Maeda, también conocido como “Conde Koma”, y otros japoneses enseñaban en el Amazonas? ¿Era Judo? ¿Era Jiu-Jitsu? ¿Su propio estilo personal, que había probado en la lucha, construido sobre la base del Judo y enriquecido por sus docenas y docenas de combates en todo el mundo? ¿Cuál fue el puente entre el arte que aprendió en el Kodokan y el estilo brasileño que lo considera su padrino: un estilo que ahora ...

In 1979 the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith withdrew Hans Kung's missio canonica. Pope Paul VI approved the censure saying, "We are obligated to declare that in his writings he fell short of integrity and the truth of the Catholic faith." Through a 1980 agreement with the Vatican, Kung is now permitted to teach, but only under secular auspices. In this acclaimed Modern Library Chronicle, Kung examines the Catholic Church through its many reformations, focusing on the people and events...

Overlapping with the Amazon and the Andes, Peru is a rich and incredible country with a long history. Now, this audiobook examines Peru’s story, covering the early Inca Empire, one of the most advanced pre-American societies, to colonization and Peru’s journey to its place in the modern world.

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission.

Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths: Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its potential but faces important challenges before it becomes a nation of substantial global significance.

For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown. In an extraordinary journey that spans 500 years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country.