Mi Planeta Alcohólico

Excerpt from Historia del Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion de Lima (1569-1820), Vol. 1 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however,...

This book narrates the rise and fall of the Wallachian voivode commonly known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, whose greed and cunning allowed him to conquer the throne of Wallachia. The history of this personality inspired Bram Stoker to create the most famous earl of all time in his novel Dracula.

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

Cuando cumplí 14 años, me enamoré de mi guitarra acústica y de la sonrisa de Ana... lo de la guitarra sí duró. El amor es como si todos los días fueran tu cumpleaños. Es escuchar tu canción favorita a todo volumen mientras viajas a la luna en tu Sentra 98. Es un incendio que no quieres apagar; y, a veces, es morirte de miedo. El amor te levanta de la cama a las 3:23 de la mañana para agarrar la guitarra y componer la canción más bonita del mundo. Esta es la historia de cómo siete acordes me enseñaron que el amor, definitivamente, sí es cosa de otro mundo.