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Adapted from the musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Originally produced as motion picture. Formatted to fit TV.
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This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies. Including substantial critical annotations and providing access to various readings and passages added to or removed from the successive editions of the 1550s, this translation expands the archive of texts available to English speakers reconsidering the various aspects of the European invasion of America. General History of the Indies was the first universal history of the recent discoveries and conquests of the New World made available to the Old World audience. At publication it consisted of two parts: the first a ge...
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The acclaimed author of Labyrinth of Ice charts the legendary sixteenth-century adventurer’s death-defying navigation of the Amazon River. In 1541, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his lieutenant Francisco Orellana searched for La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, “the golden man.” Quickly, the enormous expedition of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, and hunting dogs were decimated through disease, starvation, and attacks in the jungle. Hopelessly lost in the swampy labyrinth, Pizarro and Orellana made the fateful decision to separate. While Pizarro eventually returned home in rags, Orellana and fifty-seven men continued into the...
Un análisis de la política de las primeras décadas del siglo XXI en Colombia La política colombiana, durante las primeras dos décadas del siglo XXI, ha tenido un gran protagonista: Álvaro Uribe. Esta era parece haber llegado a su fin con el triunfo de Gustavo Petro en las pasadas elecciones presidenciales. A la luz de estos hechos, en ¿Para dónde va Colombia?, los lectores encontrarán un análisis profundo sobre los últimos veinte años de la política colombiana y cuáles son los mayores retos que se avecinan en medio de la coyuntura actual, en la que, por primera vez, el país tendrá el gobierno de un verdadero partido de izquierda. No sabemos qué vendrá, solo los presupuestos...