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Harvest of Fear is a gripping historical novel that brings to life a family, a farm, and a racial war – in Africa. Johan Steenkamp brings ardent, impetuous Marie home to his flourishing farm in Rhodesia. There is a leopard roaming the bush and, more disturbingly, political unrest among the African population. Johan soon discovers that his young wife has a shameful secret and, as well, the spirit to oppose his prejudiced opinions. Her fortitude, however, wins the admiration, and attraction, of his astute younger brother, Paul. When Rhodesia declares independence from Britain in 1965, the brothers are caught up in the internationally condemned war in defence of their farm. With each stint in...
Lejos de la frivolidad social, este interesante libro busca explicar genealogicamente nuestra historia a traves de los parentescos que vinculan a sus protagonistas. La conquista - sostiene Narciso Binayan Carmona - fue una cuestion de familia. Tres nombres sucesivos concibieron unir el actual territorio argentino: Francisco de Aguirre, que dio nombre a Santiago del Estero, la mas antigua ciudad argentina (1553); su consuegro Juan de Matienzo, y Juan Ramirez de Velasco, que propuso en 1586 una gobernacion cuyos limites serian al norte, la audiencia de Charcas - fin del altiplano andino -, al sur el estrecho, al oeste la cordillera y al este el Parana y el Plata (solo quedaba afuera la Mesopot...
Poland in the 1980s was filled with shuttered restaurants and shops that bore such imaginative names as “bread,” “shoes,” and “milk products,” from which lines could stretch for days on the mere rumor there was something worth buying. But you’d be hard-pressed to recognize the same squares—buzzing with bars and cafés—today. In the years since the collapse of communism, Poland’s GDP has almost tripled, making it the eighth-largest economy in the European Union, with a wealth of well-educated and highly skilled workers and a buoyant private sector that competes in international markets. Many consider it one of the only European countries to have truly weathered the financi...