"Recollections of a Pioneer" is an autobiographical account by J. Watt Gibson, which primarily focuses on the author's participation in the American Civil War. The book was written at the solicitation of many Gibson's friends and acquaintances who urged that his recollections of that period ought to be preserved. It covers the author's first journey to California in the late 1840s, gold mining, crossing the plains with cattle ...
"A Voyage to the South Sea" is an interesting and thrilling autobiographical account by the Royal Navy Vice-Admiral William Bligh of the naval expedition of HMS Bounty under his command, including the mutiny against him that happened in 1789. In order to win a premium offered by the Royal Society, Bligh first sailed to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit trees, then set course east across the South Pacific for South America and the Cape Horn and ev ...
"History of the Conquest of Mexico" in 4 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American historian William Hickling Prescott. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: VIEW OF THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION: Ancient Mexico Aztec Empire Judicial System Military Institutions Mexican Mythology The Temples Astronomy Tezcucans Decline of their Monarchy… DISCOVER ...
"History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by a British historian Samuel Astley Dunham. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Pagan Age: Denmark (B.C. 40 to A.D. 1014) Sweden (A.C. 70 to A.D. 1001) Norway (about A.C. 70 to A.D. 1030) Maritime Expeditions of the Northmen During the Pagan Times: In England, Franc ...
Anthony Panizzi (1797-1879), was a naturalised British librarian of Italian birth and an Italian patriot. He was the Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1856 to 1866. Apart from being a personal friend of British Prime ministers Lord Palmerston and William Ewart Gladstone, Panizzi conducted an active correspondence with Sardinian, and later Italian Prime Minister Count Camillo Benso di Cavour. In 1844, he assisted Giuseppe Mazzini, th ...
Breve historia de la gastronomia espanola contemporanea, de esa revolucion que nos ha llevado en apenas 50 anos del bocata de calamares en la tasca al food porn en las redes sociales, a los esnobs del vino, a los gastronomos especialistas en estrellas Michelin y a los ninos prodigio cocinando en la television. Remartini repasa con humor esa transicion acelerada, apoyandose en decenas de libros, reivindicando a Julio Camba, Santi Santamaria y M ...
"Peru as It Is" is an account of the social and physical features of Peru, written by a Scottish physician Archibald Smith, after the first ten years he had spent in this country. He was professionally brought into contact with persons of all classes and ranks in society, from the palace to the humblest hut, both in the interior of Peru, and in its capital, Lima. This made the author more than adequate to tells everybody's side of the ...
In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of storytelling and dialogue underscore an excavation into the deep past of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human she called Traveler, to the emergence and destruction of the world’s first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Ro ...
El mundo se encuentra sacudido por otra de las grandes crisis del capitalismo, la misma hace el barrido final a las ilusiones posmodernas. Asi nos despedimos del supuesto fin de la historia que auguraba un destino firme y perenne para la democracia burguesa. Esta ultima se encontraba barnizada por lo politicamente correcto y de ideales narcisistas. Detras de estos presupuestos navegaban, a sus anchas, la plena vigencia del capitalismo y la domin ...