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Beautifully illustrated and provocative, the author’s most famous short story is a puzzling tale about a man who wishes to take a train to a certain location but upon arrival at the station is told by the switchman that his chances of ever seeing a train—let alone of ever arriving at his intended destination—are very slim. The switchman tells how in some places the train tracks are nothing more than chalk lines and how elsewhere no bridge exists so that passengers must take the train apart and carry the pieces to be reassembled down the line. The passenger eventually becomes so confused ...

Adéntrate en un mundo Mágico y lleno de Fantasía, donde descubrirás valientes aventureros, malvados nigromantes, príncipes herederos de reinos mágicos y enanos ladrones de buen corazón...

UN JOVEN HÉROE. UN MUNDO PELIGROSO. UNA GRAN AVENTURA. Cable de cobre. Planchas de hierro. Chatarra. A veces aceite o incluso un bidón de petróleo, un recurso de otra época. Estos son los tesoros que el joven Nailer rescata de los barcos varados en la playa. En la costa de lo que una vez fue el golfo de México, la gente sobrevive desguazando antiguos petroleros y buques mercantes, y malvendiendo a las grandes empresas. Nailer y sus compañeros, la «cuadrilla ligera», afrontan el trabajo más arriesgado: meterse en las entrañas de los barcos. Es una profesión dura en un mundo duro, en ...

Zapatista is faithfully based upon the facts of the 1994 Chiapas Indian uprising in Southern Mexico. It is designed to be interesting to a reader simply wanting to read an adventure story, as well as one interested in the deeper drama of a people's revolution. The protagonist, Peter, is a Texan who sabbaticals with his friends in the Sierra Madre for the purpose of writing, drinking, and seeking adventure. Peter gets more adventure than anticipated. A whirlwind of circumstances hurls him away from his friends and into revolutionary life and death struggles. These adventures and the love of an ...