Green Eyes and Fireflies

Nunca se sabe dónde aparecerá algo que cambie todo lo conocido. Una aventura en la naturaleza a un lugar remoto o tal vez las palabras justas en el momento preciso, pueden cambiar el curso de tu vida. Estos son los relatos sobre mis viajes al reino de lo vertical. Mis primeras escapadas en solitario a lugares lejanos y que inesperadamente me llevaron a participar en varias de las carreras de montaña más famosas del mundo. Cada una de las historias intenta transmitir mi pasión por este deporte extremo, así como por las montañas y todas las enseñanzas que fui recogiendo a lo largo de...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.

Health, money and love. We're always short on one. If we have all three, we want more. The solution: witchcraft. Countless witches have been sentenced to death in the past and present. This book includes 50 biographies of the most iconic witches throughout the ages.