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the sailor who hunted LIZARDS ... and who fought alongside Blas de Lezo
Santiago Iglesias de Paul

Trafalgar If everything , Invincible and other unfortunate actions to Spain ... How could to keep this vast empire for 400 years ? Were they perhaps cowardly or inept English sailors?

The English Armada known to rise during the 4 centuries, with lights and shadows, was able hold on the sea and many times won the game, note that Blas de Lezo there, go if they existed. .. if Cartagena de Indias not speak English, Passages Marine had a lot of guilt. Rodrigo Torres , Pedro de la Cerda Messia and many others are left behind.

So goes the plot of the novel throughout the first half of the seventeenth century between the war of succession and the attempted takeover of the Caribbean city, including naval battles and love stories of its characters, including wine and guitars in Piedralaves , The Adrada , Madrid, Cartagena de India s seas develops a novel. Some pages are sprinkled with humor and in which the reader is not asked to learn what a "tack "or even a" carriage "but just spend a few entertaining moments with their reading.

That if, if you find throughout their pages at Blas de Lezo hunting wild boars by Tiétar Valley , is the result of literary license that makes the author ... who apologizes to the biographers of the English navy.

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AGRIPPA LIZARDS: THE FURY OF ROME IN HISPANIA

AGRIPPA: THE FURY OF ROME IN HISPANIA
Manuel Cebrián Abellán

On completion of the civil wars that led to Octavio to power in Rome (31 bc), to deal with people who, even within the Empire, had not yet been submitted. In northern Spain two peoples, the Asturian and Cantabrian broke the security of the area. They moved to the same eight legions and numerous auxiliary trpas, reaching a total of 70,000 men. A formidable army as never before focused on land astures to crush the rebels.

campaigns, led initially by Roman generals were taking shape and gaining in intensity and violence. Open guerrilla warfare by the mountain, the continuing ambushes legions and supply cuts, caused such damage to the Roman army had to be used throughout the displaced war machine to crush the resistance encountered. After bloody battles, in the year 25 BC The war was concluded.

To avoid repetition, captured and sold as slaves to all those men were able to wield a weapon, leaving the land free of elements hostile to Rome . Despite all these caveats, in the year 19 BC The conflict reopens. Slaves of Gaul murder their masters and returned to the Cantabrian mountains. The hidden them join them right away, destroying stalls and Roman garrisons. The violence used was such that Rome , surprised by the turn of events, was doomed to re-employ legions.

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THE BOUNTY TRILOGY
Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn Island
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall


The pack consists of three novels: The mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the sea and Pitcairn Island.

Mutiny on the Bounty
In 1788, the Bounty set sail from England bound for Tahiti. The crew suffers the abuse of Captain Bligh until Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on board. This is the story of the mutiny on the Bounty occurred in 1788 as we had the midshipman Roger Byam , whose story begins with these words: " Many times I wanted to follow the example of other retired officers and spend all the time of leisure that has an old man like me to tell, with the help of my diary and in as much detail as possible, some of the episodes of my life at sea. I made the decision last night. I said I could write about my first boat, the Bounty, the mutiny on board . "

Men against the sea
In Men against the sea discover how Captain William Bligh not as ruthless as the rebels thought, he undertook a very risky journey into the open boat overloaded the Bounty from the scene of riots to Timor. The master boasts a concern for the health of his men which results in minimal loss of life, in a time when disease decimated the crews on transoceanic voyages. Thanks to their expertise and cooperation of the sailors get sailor disprove the axiom " ship without cover, open grave."

Island of Pitcairn
Fletcher Christian in 1789 , the instigator of the mutiny on the Bounty , took refuge in a small and desolate Pacific island, with eight of his men and a group of native Polynesians. For eighteen years, nobody knew anything about them until the arrival of Topaz, found an unexpected mixed colony consisting of a few Polynesian women, surrounded by dozens of children and only one survivor, an English white beard, Alexander Smith . Of the sixteen men killed during those years, fifteen had died violently. On Pitcairn Island , culminating the exciting trilogy about the Bounty mutiny , Nordhoff and Hall masterfully recreates the tragic outcome of a group of men trapped by loneliness, alcohol and degradation.

Recommended by: Bibliolimpo

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