Diario de la expedicion reduccional del año 1780

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

Simpson refleja la contradictoria fascinacion y el asombro que produce en los extranjeros el pasado y el presente de Mexico, lo mismo en el terreno de la referencia abstracta que en el de la confrontacion con una realidad cotidiana en la que la historia reaparece siempre con renovada vigencia. Tal vez por eso el autor nos dice que su libro es una invitacion al lector a hacer con el un remunerador viaje al pasado de Mexico.

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Uno de los eventos mas importantes en la historia de la aviacion es aun desconocido por muchos, debido al encubrimiento de los paises que lo protagonizaron, los Estados Unidos y la Union Sovietica. Ocurrio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Fria que le siguio, y tuvo serias consecuencias sobre la politica internacional. Caido del cielo recrea como el dictador de la Union Sovietica, Joseph Stalin, hizo una copia exacta del B-29 norteamericano --bombardero estrategico superpesado de largo alcance-- y lo convirtio en el TU-4 sovietico. Es un relato lleno de accion e intriga, donde...