Entre varios papeles que dejó Félix de Azara en poder de su compañero y amigo, don Pedro Cerviño, se hallaba el borrador autógrafo de su Correspondencia oficial inédita sobre los trabajos de demarcación: documento importante, que contiene la historia de las controversias suscitadas por los Comisarios portugueses, con varias observaciones sobre el tratado de 1777.En él se señalan los errores de los negociadores; sobre todo el de hacer pasar...

Exploration of the ruined Inca city, Machu Picchu, which was rediscovered in 1911, and the mysteries concerning the function of this city in the ancient Inca civilization.

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great...

Baltasar Bustos, un estudiante de derecho y empleado de la Audiencia de Buenos Aires, se introduce en la recámara del presidente de esa Audiencia y reemplaza a su hijo recién nacido por un niño negro, hijo de una prostituta enferma y azotada públicamente. Horas más tarde, el edificio se incendia y deja irreconocible el cadáver del niño negro. El hijo legítimo es entregado a esclavas. Es la época en la que una juventud ilustrada por las lecturas...

Travel through the Andes mountains in Ecuador and visit the ancient ruins of Machu picchu in Peru. From Sao Paulo, travel through tranquil fields and see Brazil. Travel on a steam engine train in Paraguay. From Santiago, Chile, the train heads straight south. In Argentina, travel from Buenos Aires to Patagonia.

This is the biography of one of the most colourful and dashing young monarchs who ever lived. His shortcomings-impulsiveness, quick temper, weakness for women-were offset by his truly generous nature. He became a surprising liberal, the only reigning monarch to defy and outwit Metternich, "the evil genius of the reaction," and he was at one time offered the thrones of Spain and Greece. With a mad grandmother, a mother whose lovers and political intrigues...

Boquerón pasó a la historia paraguaya como una de las batallas más relevantes de la Guerra del Chaco, por su importancia estratégica, por su valor para insuflar ánimos a una tropa que creía que el ejército boliviano era invencible y para corroborar que el plan más pertinente para defender al Paraguay era el de combatir en el Chaco central y no en la costa del Río Paraguay. Este libro, de la autoría del historiador Claudio José Fuentes...

Tristan da Cunha is both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 1,511 miles (2,432 km) off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, 1,343 miles (2,161 km) from Saint Helena and 2,166 miles (3,486 km) off the coast from the Falkland Islands. The territory consists of the main island, Tristan da Cunha, which has a diameter...

The Little Hospital That Could, by Terrence Jay O'Neil, is a fascinating account of an unusual medical command that the author assumed at a military hospital in Panama. The Panama Canal was being gradually turned over by the United States to the government of Panama. The author was assigned to a healthcare organization made up of both Americans and Panamanians that had provided service to military and civilian personnel associated with the Canal for...