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La autora seleccionó documentos fundamentales que han estado proscritos de la historia oficial de Costa Rica. Nuestro país ha vivido bajo la égida del lado victorioso de la guerra civil, es hora de replantear nuestra historia y conocer de primera mano la visión y experiencias de los vencidos,...

Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America—but at considerable cost to Panamanians. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics.

Francis Younghusband apenas tenía veinte años cuando partió en busca del "verdadero espíritu del Himalaya". Escrito cuarenta años después, este relato cuenta las dos expediciones que realizó entre 1886 y 1889 y que le valieron la Medalla de Oro de la Royal Geographic Society. La primera...

Artículos escritos para revistas y periódicos, referencias críticas, textos prologales, diálogos de mesa y sobremesa, conversaciones al botón de lo cotidiano o al arte del birlibirloque, libretas de apuntes, notas en hojas al lápiz grafito, recortes de prensa y, en fin, papeles varios que conllevan,...

Pocos personajes generan tanta pasión como Julio Cortázar. Como escritor, supo nutrirse de la tradición fantástica del Río de la Plata y reelaborarla para inaugurar un nuevo espacio en donde luego abrevarían las futuras generaciones. Tal cual dijo alguna vez el escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes,...

In an “eye-opening memoir” (People) “as beautiful as it is discomfiting” (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti. Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary’s daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolutions of modern Latin American literature. Perhaps surprisingly, no complete history of Vargas Llosa's works, placed in biographical and historical context,...

Somewhere beyond the Salish Sea lived the Stout Men who did the Megin River, and Tibet, and the Amazon. There was Tictac and Poldy, Cliffy and Madame, Captain and Gung, and Papa Smurf, who would die someday, but not yet.  These are the stories of where they rushed headlong, towards adventure and suffering, and how it all took place.   

Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a small high school, foreign travelers were as hard to find in the kingdom...

Esta es una recopilación de escritos testimoniales de los siguientes autores: GUSTAVO ALEMÁN BOLAÑOS, escritor, autor de varios libros sobre Sandino. PABLO EMILIO BARRETO, periodista, antiguo reportero del diario La Prensa, de Managua. ARTURO BLISS- LANE, ministro de los Estados Unidos en Nicaragua....

Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...

MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD "Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people." --From...

Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story...

Varios años después de la publicación de “La narrativa de María Luisa Bombal, una visión de la existencia femenina", Lucía Guerra nos entrega ahora este volumen que se basa en su anterior estudio sobre la obra de Bombal, pero toma un vuelo propio y profundo, ya que añade y reformula...