viernes, 22 de febrero de 2008

The Motorcycle Diaries: Che Guevara



- A Journey around South America


- In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore south america on 'la Poderosa', the powerful one: a 500 cc Norton. One of them was twenty-three-year-old Che guevara


- What distinguishes these diaries...is that they reveal a human side to El Che which historians have successfully managed to suppress...A joy to read from stard to finish.

Financial Times

miércoles, 20 de febrero de 2008

SHORT STORIES IN SPANISH



Este es un volumen de diez cuentos, con traducciones paralelas, ofrece a los estudiantes de español de todos los niveles la oportunidad de disfrutar de una amplia gama de literatura contemporánea, sin tener que consultar el diccionario constantemente.

Los cuentos pertenecen a Gabriel García Marquez, Isabel Allende, Javier Marias, Julio Ramón Ribeyro y otros grandes de las letras.

miércoles, 28 de noviembre de 2007

Birds of Perú



This is the first guide ever published on the word's most important birding country, and fills a huge gap in our knowledge of South American ornithology. Peru harbors almost 1800 species of birds, including 118 endemics, in every habitat ranging from coast and deserts to 23,000 foot snow-capped Andean peaks, intermontane valleys, lush cloud forests and tropical rainforests.

Don Quixote /Cervantes



Complet and unabridget, in the memorable Walter Starkie translation this is the epic tale of Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza.

The adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll / Alvaro Mutis



Maqroll the Gaviero in one the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with deat, and his enduring friedships and unlooked-for love affais make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute

The Golden Serpent



Unpredictably swift and menacing unfathhomable in its nature, the "golden Serpent" inspires reverence and terror in the tiny scattered communities that border its banks - villages of peons pitched between pagan recklessness and Christian despair. Hardy agrarians, these people are prone to supernatural fears that arise from total dependence upon a river that bestows great gifts and, at times, destroys all that it has given....

On the Road



A Brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel defined the new "bet" generation. It had tremendous impact on both sides of the atlantic and made him famous overnight