Exilios en el mundo contemporáneo: vida y destino

Esta obra recoge testimonios tempranos sobre la conquista de los Llanos Orientales de Colombia y constituye el tomo V de las Relaciones y Visitas a los Andes. Enriquecen el texto, entre otros documentos, cartas de Antonio de Berrío quien a finales del siglo XVI, aún buscaba El Dorado mítico más allá del Orinoco, y en ellas describe grandes caravanas de soldados y siervos que arrastraban o cargaban desde los Andes vituallas y ganados por entre ríos y sabanas pobladas de indios. Textos sobre los repartos de San Juan de los Llanos, de 1556, aportan novedosa información sobre las etnias...

This book captures the most stunning studies, the difficulties, the dangers, and the experiences during a 10-year period of travel and expeditions. Author Juan Jesus Vallejo journeys across five continents, giving us a glimpse into the pyramids in Peru that are older than the Egyptian pyramids; the first human temples with more than 10,000 years of history, discovered in the dusty fields of Kurdistan; and the largest and most puzzling painted rocks on the planet, in nearly unexplored areas of the Sahara. An endless stream of riddles, anecdotes, and facts, this book demonstrates that the world ...

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The Myth of the Non-Russian explores the magical realist prose of two non-Slavic authors writing in Russian in the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s. Erika Haber argues that these authors juxtaposed their native myth with Soviet myth, thus undermining the Soviet prescription of national conformity in art by suggesting a plurality of worlds and truths.