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Edmundo De Amicis era un romántico en el más amplio sentido de la expresión. Y ese romanticismo suyo está muy presente en su ingente obra periodística, ensayística y literaria, hasta el punto en que, trascendiendo los géneros al uso, las crónicas de De Amicis terminaron por erigirse como un género propio, personal e irrepetíble.

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What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Como infatigable andinista, caminante y atento observador de la naturaleza, Manuel Rojas conocía de árboles, pájaros, flores e insectos, así como del relieve de la costa y el cielo de Chile. En sus silenciosas excursiones y caminatas, solo o acompañado, aprendió el ruido del bosque y la soledad de las montañas de Los Andes por las cuales tenía especial predilección porque eran, para él, una inagotable fuente de riqueza emocional. Esta nueva edición de A pie por Chile -ilustrada con fotografías y mapas- reúne artículos originales e inéditos que Manuel Rojas escribió durante...