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Lonely Planet's Belize is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Dive the Blue Hole, explore Maya villages, and discover Garifuna culture; all with your trusted travel companion.
Inside Lonely Planet's Belize Travel Guide:
Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the destination's best experiences and where...
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Blessed with a tropical climate, abundant wildlife and a varied landscape, it's easy to understand the appeal of this beguiling region. Footprint's Belize, Guatemala & Southern Mexico Handbook will guide you from monumental Mayan ruins, through hypnotic fiestas, to sparkling submarine adventures.
• Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the region, including jungle-shrouded ruins, basking in crystal clear cayes, historic churches, delicious...
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Lonely Planet's Best of Central America is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Laze over dinner in a beachfront thatched hut on Bocas del Toro, Panama; explore remarkable jungle temples in Tikal, Guatemala; and stroll the picture-perfect cobblestone streets of Granada, Nicaragua. All with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of Central America and begin your...
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Lonely Planet Guatemala is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit Tika's monumental restored temples, learn to speak Spanish while admiring picture-postcard vistas in Antigua or hike Lago de Atitlan's lakeshore trails; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Guatemala and begin your journey now!
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Lonely Planet's Guatemala is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Visit Tika's monumental restored temples, admire picture-postcard vistas in Antigua or hike Lago de Atitlan's lake shore trails; all with your trusted travel companion.
Inside Lonely Planet's Guatemala Travel Guide:
Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring...
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If you like one-off stories about unusual people doing unusual things in the mud, here you go. This story recounts a trek led by an eccentric Costa Rican who, living in New York, managed to recruit a band of willing followers to fulfill his life-long dream of locating a remote tribe reputed to live wholly apart from civilization in the pristine mountains of untouched rainforest.
By definition, no one knows what to expect on an expedition-it's...
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BANANA MAN, Peeling and Revealing, Life in the Tropics: Book 3 is a riveting narrative that traces the enduring legacy of banana pioneers. From the resilient second-generation 'banana kids,' who spent their formative years amidst the lush banana plantations and Company towns, to the harrowing tales of how two world wars left an indelible mark on many of their lives, this epic journey unveils a remarkable tapestry of history, resilience, and the enduring...
29) Dominica
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Bradt's Dominica is the only standalone guide available to this Caribbean nature island, a place of unbridled, off-the-beaten-path adventure and discovery. Author Paul Crask has lived on Dominica for over ten years and his guide, considered by many to be a traveller's bible to the island, is rich in detail, both in terms of background and practical information for explorers, eco-tourists and culture vultures, making it the most respected, in-depth...
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Las Cartas de relación de Hernán Cortés, son cinco cartas escritas durante siete años y dirigidas al emperador Carlos V de España. Constituyen uno de los testimonios más notables de la historia de la conquista de América.
En sus cartas Cortés describe su viaje a México, su llegada a Tenochtitlán, capital del Imperio azteca, y algunos de los eventos que resultarían en la conquista de México.
En las cinco cartas, escritas durante siete años...
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Desidi haser esta fantasia por 50 aos de confusion del pueblo cubano Que no los deja encontrar su paz. Buscando el alientos tal vez en mitos Claudia representa al pueblo, Marjinado y confundido yeno de temores Y luchando siempre no perder el cordon unblicar con el que todos nasemos
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There is no document of greater importance to the study of the pre-Columbian mythology of America than the "Popol Vuh." It is the chief source of our knowledge of the mythology of the Kiché people of Central America, and it is further of considerable comparative value when studied in conjunction with the mythology of the Nahuatlacâ, or Mexican peoples. This interesting text, the recovery of which forms one of the most romantic episodes in the history...
33) El valle de Anáhuac en el siglo XV: La conquista del imperio tepaneca y el surgimiento de la Trip
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Si los acontecimientos de la conquista del imperio mexica por parte de los españoles en 1521 son muy conocidos y celebrados, mucho menos famosas son las historias acerca de la conquista del imperio tepaneca que tuvo lugar un siglo antes, en 1428. En este ensayo se exponen los antecedentes, el desarrollo y las consecuencias de la conquista del imperio tepaneca, un acontecimiento central de la historia indígena que conmocionó el valle de Anáhuac...
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Esta obra inicia la COLECCIÓN GRAN CARIBE, proyecto editorial que se propone difundir diversos aspectos de la realidad histórica, económica, social, política y cultural de los países que integran la Gran Cuenca del Caribe, región a menudo poco estudiada por la literatura académica. En este volúmen los lectores encontrarán valiosa información acerca de Cuba, la isla mayor del archipiélago de las Antillas, lo que sin lugar a dudas facilitará...
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Sir Walter Raleigh left his mark on Trinidad during his search for El Dorado, the City of Gold. Admiral Nelson is a hero in this part of the world, such that he gave his name to a port in Antigua. He is rumored to have ended his days embalmed in rum. Peter Stuyvesant makes an appearance in Sint Maarten, where he lost his leg, before he fought to maintain New Amsterdam as a Dutch port. In Mexico the familiar characters include Cortez, Moctezuma also...
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"Este libro es una obra colectiva de 112 mujeres que fueron presas políticas y estuvieron en cárceles de distintos puntos del país entre 1974 y 1983. Su originalidad radica también en el intento de contar la vida cotidiana de esas mujeres, de la que por supuesto no estaba ajena la política, a través de los recuerdos, cartas y dibujos que fueron gestándose entre rejas."
Obra colectiva de 112 prisioneras políticas entre 1974 y 1983.
Fueron,...
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In the 1930s, Companía Bananera, the Banana Company and a pre-cursor to Chiquita, was preparing a plot of land for new cultivation in the Diquis Region of southern Costa Rica when they unearthed a sizable stone sphere. That incident began a series of similar discoveries that has, up to now, resulted in finding over three hundred of these unique and extraordinary rock balls of stone.
From the moment they were first found, Costa Rica's stone spheres...
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Redactado en 1932 por Jorge Mañach, Joaquín Martínez Sáenz, Francisco Ichaso y Juan Andrés Lliteras, algunos ven en El ABC al Pueblo de Cuba, clave en la historia de Cuba, la influencia del Manifiesto fascista de 1919, obra de Marinetti y Alceste de Ambris.
El ABC contó entre sus miembros con hombres de negocios, periodistas y políticos relevantes y fue, entre otras cosas, un movimiento violento y nacionalista. Sin embargo, Mañach negó una...
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Todos sabemos que el 9 de julio de 1816 se declaró la Independencia. Pero la mayoría de los argentinos desconoce tanto sus pormenores, como la vinculación de ese hecho con la revolución iniciada en mayo de 1810. ¿Por qué el Congreso se realizó en Tucumán, cuando el protagonismo político hasta ese momento había sido de Buenos Aires? ¿Por qué, si en 1810 se formó el primer gobierno patrio y en 1813 ya teníamos himno nacional, moneda propia...
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Hernando Colón dedicó los últimos años de su vida a elaborar la biografía de su padre y la historia de sus viajes. La Historia del almirante don Cristóbal Colón no se publicó en vida de Hernando Colón. El manuscrito pasó a María de Toledo, su cuñada, la esposa de Diego Colón.
Más tarde Luis Colón (hijo de Diego) lo entregó al genovés Baliano de Fornari. Este lo llevó a Venecia, donde fue impreso en 1571, con el título de Historie...
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