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El autor es pediatra y Capitán de Yate. En este libro nos relata la larga travesía que en 2018 emprendió con su velero, el Corto Maltés, para dar la vuelta a Francia.
Saliendo de Santander ascendió la costa atlántica hasta Bretaña, a continuación el Canal de la Mancha hasta cerca de la frontera con Bélgica, y finalmente el descenso por los ríos y canales del interior de Francia hasta el Mediterráneo.
Sorprendentemente los mares gruesos...
42) Living On Luck
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Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center.
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In the summer of 2011, a mysterious gentleman sidled up to the reception of a London publishing house, deposited a memory stick on the desk then melted away. The stick was a revelation; it contained hundreds of letters, all seemingly written by Prince Charles. Dating back to his boyhood and addressed to a far wider range of recipients than hitherto suspected – including the Pope, Celine Dion and a recurring correspondence with former deputy prime...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" Robert N. Hudspeth is Research Professor of English at the Claremont Graduate University and professor emeritus of English at Redlands University. He is the editor of The Letters of Margaret Fuller and the author of Ellery Channing.
This is the inaugural volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a century. When completed, the edition's three...
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Existen un sinnúmero de investigaciones sobre la Guerra del Pacífico, pues ha sido uno de los eventos más dramáticos y decisivos de nuestra historia nacional. A pesar de ello, no todo esta dicho. Aún hay mucho por descubrir y material por estudiar.
El Estado en la sombra (Fondo editorial PUCP, 2016) es uno de los estudios historiográficos sobre la Guerra más relevantes en el que podemos conocer el testimonio directo de dos de sus protagonistas:...
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Pierre Vadeboncoeur et Pierre Elliott Trudeau ont été d'inséparables copains de l'école primaire jusqu'à l'université, pour ensuite devenir collaborateurs à la revue Cité libre et camarades de luttes contre le duplessisme. Cette bonne entente a duré jusqu'à ce qu'ils s'affrontent dans les années 1960 sur l'avenir de la nation québécoise. L'un étant souverainiste et socialiste, l'autre, le fédéraliste que l'on connaît. Pourtant, l'affection...
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Las cartas que aquí se presentan constituyen un valioso material de archivo que contribuirá, sin duda, a reconstruir la historia del Perú posbélico y a repensar las estrategias discursivas que Clorinda Matto de Turner utilizó para tejer redes a distancia con Ricardo Palma y otras figuras clave de la cultura latinoamericana de su tiempo.
Este epistolario editado y anotado ofrece la oportunidad de cartografiar el campo intelectual peruano en los...
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A finales de 1883, el pintor Claude Monet se instala en la aldea francesa de Giverny. Allí vivió durante 43 años, creando a la vez que su obra pictórica esa obra de arte total que fue su jardín: flores, agua, puentes, caminos, árboles... tal como deseaba verlos y pintarlos. Monet fue un enamorado de la naturaleza, con una aguda sensibilidad hacia la luz, los efectos y las vistas que conseguía pintando "à plein air".
Sus cartas, recopiladas...
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The hilarious annual collection of readers' letters that were just too left-field, outrageous or witty to make the pages of The Telegraph. Telegraph letters page remains a rare bastion of well-written, carefully edited wit on the topics of the day. In this fifth volume of wise, waggish and downright outrageous letters for which there wasn't enough space – or editorial stomach – in the paper, we offer another hilariously alternative review of the...
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The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters, which have been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands...
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La vinculación entre Gabriela Mistral y seis presidentes de la República es materia central de estas páginas. Ella mantuvo correspondencia frecuente con dos de ellos –Pedro Aguirre Cerda y Eduardo Frei Montalva–, cuya lectura permite ahora un interesante acercamiento al fuero interno de la Nobel de Literatura 1945.
En esas cartas se revela mucho de su carácter, sus sentires y expectativas vitales, sus modos de expresar afectos e incluso algunas...
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Mit dem Geheimrat zu verreisen, ist ein ganz besonderes Vergnügen. Im September 1786 bricht Johann Wolfgang Goethe – 37-jährig und gelangweilt vom Ministerleben – in Richtung Süden auf. Es geht über den Brenner und an den Gardasee, über Verona nach Venedig, weiter über Bologna, Rom und Neapel bis nach Sizilien. Die "Italienische Reise" ist eine der berühmtesten Reisebeschreibungen der Literaturgeschichte, sie ist aber auch ein Buch über...
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Alfred Wainwright, the legendary fell walker and author of the incomparable and unique Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells was also a fluent, eloquent and diligent correspondent. Writing to old friends and to the many new ones gained through his books, and to his love, and later second wife, Betty, his letters display a much warmer, more sensitive and emotional character than his gruff popular image would suggest. Hunter Davies, Wainwright's biographer,...
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Letters--mostly of the nuts-and-bolts, practical variety--between Thomas Wolfe and his literary agent, Elizabeth Nowell. Nowell served as Wolfe's editor for many of his short stories, paring them down to make them acceptable to magazines. Oddly enough, his attitude toward her was grateful rather than adversarial, and their deep mutual respect is clearly evident in these letters.Originally published in 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press...
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After his return to France, Voltaire set out to write "Lettres Philosophiques," or "Letters on England," in which he challenged the old regime of France with brief, epigrammatic essays on the political liberty, religious tolerance and commercial enterprise of the British. The work – which was soon condemned by the French censor and all copies ordered to be seized – praises the English political and trade systems, the peaceful interaction between...
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Epistolario decimal reúne las cartas que se intercambiaron Pedro Prado y Manuel Magallanes Moure entre 1911 y 1923, precisamente los años en que ambos escritores protagonizaron el campo literario chileno. Amigos y miembros del Grupo de Los Diez, que reunió a destacados músicos, pintores, arquitectos y escritores chilenos, Prado y Magallanes comparten a través de sus cartas sus paseos por playas y montañas, sus inquietudes filosóficas y sus...
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Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski-America's "Ultimate Outsider" Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protégé of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature...
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A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairnby the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroborosand the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy. Eric Rucker Eddison's first book, originally published privately in hardback during the First World War, is a poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Philip Sidney Fletcher Nairn, whose work was so inspired by his Scottish ancestry, life in the Lake District, and his subsequent travels...
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