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The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

Historiadores primitivos de Indias: Noticias biogr?ficas. Verdadera historia de los sucesos de la conquista de la Nueva-Espa?a, por Bernal D?az del Castillo. Verdadera relacion de la conquista del Per? y Provincia del Cuzco, por Francisco de Jerez. La cr?nica del Per?, nuevamente escrita por Pedro de Cieza de Leon. Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Per?, por Agustin de Z?rate.

Benjamín Subercaseaux bien pudo titular su obra Chile, una loca geografía... y una historia ídem. La última masa continental en ser poblada por la humanidad, el Mordor del Imperio español durante dos siglos y medio, la Prusia del Pacífico en el siglo XIX y un carrusel político a lo largo del XX. La trayectoria de la franja larga y angosta ofrece sobremesas para regodearse. En el primer tomo leerán desde las teorías de poblamiento de América (incluyendo las de un voluntarioso científico trasandino que afirmaba que la humanidad se originó, entre todos los lugares posibles, en...