Mis padres empezaron a usar esa palabra hace más o menos un año: 'un día vas a hacer un viaje para estar con nosotros. Solito Javier Zamora, traducción de José García Escobar This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived. This is the story of the women who participated in the greatest mass migration in American history, transforming their country in the process a tale brought to life by a brilliant social historian and a dynamic storyteller. Drawing on letters, diaries, and other extraordinary contemporary accounts, sifting through the legends and the myths, the laws and the treaties, Katie Hickman presents us with cast of unforgettable women: the half Cree, Marguerite McLoughlin, the much-admired 'First Lady' of Fort Vancouver the Presbyterian missionary Narcissa Whitman, who in 1837 became the first white woman to make the overland journey west across the Rocky Mountains Biddy Mason, the Mississippi slave who fought for her freedom through the courts of California Olive Oatman, adopted by the Mohave, famous for her facial tattoos. Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route African-American women in search of freedom from slavery Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers - all were women forced to draw on huge reserves of resilience and courage in the face of tumultuous change. Pedir prestado: Libro impreso | eBook | eAudioīrave Hearted : The Women of the American West 1836-1880 by Katie HickmanĪs the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, 'Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard.' But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and ballads of popular imagination. Se añade así una importante pieza a su sutil exploración sobre los orígenes y los mecanismos de la identidad con la que ha logrado construir un inconfundible universo literario. En este nuevo eslabón de su fascinante proyecto literario, el autor guatemalteco se adentra en la brutal y compleja historia reciente de su país, en la cual resulta cada vez más difícil distinguir entre víctimas y verdugos. Un narrador llamado Eduardo Halfon tendrá que viajar a Japón, y revisitar su infancia en la Guatemala de los bélicos años setenta, y acudir a un misterioso encuentro en un bar oscuro y lumpen, para finalmente dilucidar los detalles de la vida y el secuestro de aquel hombre que también se llamaba Eduardo Halfon, y que era su abuelo.

Nadie ignora que Guatemala es un país surrealista, había afirmado años antes. Una fría mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil de Guatemala, un comerciante judío y libanés es secuestrado en un callejón sin salida de la capital. In the process, we will learn how the pests that annoy us tell us far more about humanity than they do about the animals themselves.Ĭanción Eduardo Halfon, traducción de Lisa Dillman & Daniel Hahn Bethany Brookshire's deeply researched and entirely entertaining book will show readers what there is to venerate in vermin, and help them appreciate how these animals have clawed their way to success as we did everything we could to ensure their failure. Pet or pest? In many cases, it's entirely a question of perspective.

It's a story about human nature, and how we categorize the animals in our midst, including bears and coyotes, sparrows and snakes. It's about what calling an animal a pest says about people, how we live, and what we want. It's not a natural history of the animals we hate. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. Pests : How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany BrookshireĪ squirrel in the garden.

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