Books by "Antonio Blázquez y Delgado-Aguilera"
3 books found
On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from Patagonia to Indonesia, from the Philippines to the Cape of Good Hope, Pigafetta's The First Voyage around the World is a classic of discovery and exploration literature. This volume is based on the critical edition by Antonio Canova. It includes an extensive introduction to the work and generous annotations by Theodore J. Cachey Jr who discusses the marvelous elements of the story through allusions to Magellan's travels made by writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Gabriel García Márquez. However, Cachey is careful to point out that Pigafetta's book is far from just a marvel-filled travel narrative. The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies. Expertly presented and handsomely illustrated, this edition of Pigafetta's classic travelogue is sure to enlighten new readers and invigorate the imagination as the story has done since it first appeared.
Leído o no, si hay un libro en todos los hogares, ése es el Don Quijote de la Mancha. La aventura de los molinos, la batalla contra los rebaños o el manteo de Sancho Panza son algunos de los episodios que ya forman parte de nuestra cultura popular. El realismo que otorga Cervantes a su novela, ha contribuido a alimentar todo tipo de especulaciones que hoy, cuatro siglos después, todavía son objeto de debate entre académicos e historiadores: ¿Qué localidad se identifica con el “lugar de la Mancha”? ¿Dónde se ubican los famosos molinos que se convierten en gigantes? ¿Se inspiró en un personaje real la figura de don Quijote? Éstas y otras cuestiones se abordan en Un lugar de la Mancha... Guía de los pueblos de Don Quijote, que pretende trasladarte a ti, amig@ lector/a, a través de un viaje para descubrir los rincones más fascinantes y desconocidos de nuestra geografía, vinculados con la obra más imperecedera de la literatura universal. ¿Te lo vas a perder?