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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En Estados Unidos, en el siglo XIX, a pequeña ciudad de Concord, cerca de Boston, vio florecer una comunidad de intelectuales que se convirtieron en grandes renovadores del pensamiento, la literatura, la lucha por los derechos civiles y otros sueños sobre los que se forjarían los Estados Unidos. Ese grupo de fascinantes personajes, que fueron el núcleo de lo que se llamó el Renacimiento Americano, se reunieron alrededor de quien puede considerarse como el padre de la filosofía norteamericana, Ralph Waldo Emerson. En torno a él, se reunieron figuras como el pensador Henry David Thoreau, ...

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...