Aldea 1936

Utilizada desde la Antigüedad, LA RUTA DE LA SEDA acabó uniendo ya en el siglo i de nuestra era las ciudades costeras del Oriente Próximo con el lejano y casi fabuloso Imperio chino. THOMAS O. HÖLLMANN aporta en este libro una concisa y atractiva panorámica sobre más de dos mil años de historia en torno a esta mítica vía comercial que discurre a través de desiertos, cordilleras y estepas punteados de estaciones que el viajero avistaba con alivio, así como por ciudades magníficas, como Damasco, Bagdad o Samarcanda. Valor y codicia, caravasares, navíos, mercancías preciosas y...

El general de las causas perdidas. Nunca triunfador, jamás vencido, Ángel Peñaloza pelea por los suyos largas campañas que no puede ganar. Combate junto a jefes prestigiosos: Quiroga, Lavalle, Benavides, Urquiza. Enfrenta, lanza en mano, a los gobernadores porteños más poderosos del siglo: Juan Manuel de Rosas y Bartolomé Mitre. Ambos siguen contra él persecuciones de exterminio. Todos, aún sus enemigos, reconocen en Peñaloza un hombre de bien. Nadie lo acusa de haber torturado ni ejecutado a los vencidos en tiempos que todos lo hacían. Sarmiento y Hernández, las dos grandes...

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