Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
CLASicos
Author: Christianity in Latin America
Author: Hans-Jürgen PrienPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004222626
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 703
Book Description
Christianity in Latin America provides a complete overview of over 500 years of the history of Christianity in the ‘New World’. The inclusion of German research in this book is an important asset to the Anglo-American research area, in disclosing information that was hitherto not available in English. This work will present the reader with a very good survey into the history of Christianity on the South American continent, based on a tremendous breadth of literature.
One River
Author: Wade DavisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126836
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Revista mexicana de física
Author: I'm Speaking
Author: Rafael GuillénPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810118515
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rafael Guillen's poems are infused with the land and the people of Andalusia. He lays before us all the harshness and beauty of his country - the calm seashore and the violent revolutions, the wheat fields and the famine, the children and the laborers suffering through days like hot coals. In light of this history, Guillen gives his words sharp edges tinged with a certain tender grief. A quiet force builds up behind the complex imagery and compact language as Guillen reflects on coming of age in Civil War Spain and situations of love, life, death, and faith in modern-day Granada, Paris, and the United States. Sandy McKinney, working closely with Guillen, accurately captures the unusual syntax and emotional tone of the work of this important Spanish poet. Included here is McKinney's interview with the poet where Guillen explains his connection to the tradition of Andalusian poetry, a proud literary tradition filled with a sensual delight in the beauty of particular words, in their sound as well as their significance.
A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004435034
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
A Companion to Music at the Habsburgs Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew H. Weaver, is the first in-depth survey of the Habsburg family’s musical patronage over a broad span of time.
Index to Latin-American Books
Author: Inter-American Book Exchange, Washington, D.C.Publisher:
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
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Author: Daniel de la Vega