Dante Navarro

Por estas páginas, escritas con un punto de rabia y una medida de orgullo, desfilan 35 hombres y mujeres excesivos que pautaron de memorables quijotadas el viaje comprendido entre la Hispania romana y un Estado miembro de la Unión Europea. Castellanos y extremeños, gallegos y aragoneses, valencianos y andaluces, vascos y catalanes. De Viriato a Amancio Ortega, de los Últimos de Filipinas a Clara Campoamor, el lector será testigo de sucesos inalcanzables por la más disparatada fantasía. Y quizá, solo quizá, experimentará una íntima reconciliación con los autores materiales de esa...

"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...