Este libro recoge y analiza las obras de nueve cronistas de la llamada conquista espiritual de América: las escritas por aquellos autores pertenecientes a las distintas órdenes religiosas que participaron en la evangelización del Nuevo Continente.
'An Antarctic odyssey; Shackleton and Scott star in this rip-roaring account'The Telegraph'Delivered with pace, style and infectious enthusiasm, The Grip of the Ice sometimes chills you to the bone.
'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew MarrA unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains.
A true adventure in which two amateur scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery - and make history themselves'This book is a work of art' RYAN HOLIDAY'A pulse-quickening real-life thriller' New York Times 'A memorable story, beautifully told' The TimesFor John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport.
An utterly gripping non-fiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission.
Global hit-maker Andrew Lloyd-Webber's new musical spotlights the world of Stephen Ward - the social cavalier who knew everyone who mattered - and his enigmatic role in the great political scandal of the 20th Century.
'The best non-fiction writer of her generation' THE TIMES'When I read Flyn's writing I would often exhale with a sense of wonder' GUARDIAN'Fascinating and masterfully written' ALICE WINNLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITINGA lyrical exploration of the world's most forbiddingly remote places, the supposedly uninhabited wildernesses of the world - and the humans who have always been there, by award-winning and critically acclaimed writer Cal Flyn.
From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the ebook edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it.
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.
'THE SUN' EBOOK OF THE WEEKFrom the brilliant author of 'Black Boxes' comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history.
Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.
A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 A New York Times Book Review Critics' Pick A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature ';A thrilling work of history that's wilder than fiction.
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'.
THE HEART-STOPPING MEMOIR, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY AND SAM CLAFLIN, AND DIRECTED BY BALTASAR KORMAKUR (EVEREST)A compelling, at times devastating, ultimately inspiring account of how much can go wrong on the ocean and how, miraculously, one woman conquered her own fears.
A virologist's insight into how viruses evolve and why global epidemics are inevitableIn 1993 a previously healthy young man was drowning in the middle of a desert, in fluids produced by his own lungs.
'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert'Miraculous and hopeful' Emma StraubRiverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America's riverbank towns.
Sunday Times Bestseller'Passionate and well-researched' Tatler'A must-read' IndependentA social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world's most beloved dogs, by writer, presenter and long-time dog lover Ben Fogle.
The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England.
