The book chronicles the life and adventures of the Spanish explorer Ferdinand De Soto, primarily focusing on his expeditions in the Americas during the 16th century.
Saying "e;yes"e; can change everything—especially when it's whispered in a cedar-scented spa, on a moon-bright dock, or during a sweaty, post-workout massage.
Prometeo Rodriguez, un timido profesor universitario especializado en iconografia clasica, ve cambiar su vida cuando es seleccionado para participar en una expedicion arqueologica en Olimpia.
The Missing White AlbumBy William ShearsWhen Ringo Starr's personal copy of The Beatles—stamped 0000001—sold at auction for $790,000, it set the record for the most expensive album in history.
Drawn from Thomas Hardy's own years as an architect restoring West Country churches, A Pair of Blue Eyes sends a young designer to a remote Cornish parish to survey a crumbling tower - where he loses his heart to the rector's daughter, as, later, does the very London critic who reviews his work.
The narrative delves into the life of David Crockett, a figure emblematic of the early American pioneering spirit, exploring his background, struggles, and the wilderness experiences that shaped him as a man and a legend in American history.
Howard Overing Sturgis kept an open house at Windsor where Henry James and Edith Wharton were regular guests, and did his needlework while the talk flowed around him.
Robert Hugh Benson - son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose conversion to Rome in 1903 was a public scandal - brings a priest's clinical calm to the supernatural.
Virginia Woolf's first novel, seven years and two breakdowns in the making, sends the sheltered, half-educated Rachel Vinrace across the ocean on her father's ship to South America - and into the company of the English abroad, among them a young man who dreams of writing a novel about silence.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon acted on the stage under a false name to support her mother, then wrote eighty novels - and this is the one that made her fortune and defined the sensation genre.
A los 23 anos, Juan al fin consigue formar parte de la planta permanente de la municipalidad, puesto conseguido por su madre, que trabajo en el Estado hasta jubilarse.
