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El historiador y soci logo argentino Jos Luis Busaniche reuni en este libro singular y estimulante los testimonios personales de aquellos que por una u otra raz n trataron de cerca al Bol var de la espada pero que en las horas de su ntimo aburrimiento le a la nueva Elo sa. Las m s dis miles facetas de su existencia prodigiosa seaprecian en estas p ginas.

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...

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El saldo de dolor y desolación que dejaron los bombardeos atómicos en las ciudades japonesas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki está consignado en estos testimonios de los sobrevivientes que recrean los instantes de horror padecidos tras las detonaciones.