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Catalina

Autor: W. Somerset Maugham

Número de Páginas: 258

Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.

Catalina

Autor: Liska Jacobs

Número de Páginas: 241

A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young woman’s downward spiral following the end of an affair Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that’s her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, and she retreats to Los Angeles to blow her severance package on whatever it takes to numb the pain. Her abandoned crew of college friends (childhood friend Charlotte and her wayward husband, Jared; and Elsa’s ex-husband, Robby) receive her with open arms, and, thinking she’s on vacation, a plan to celebrate their reunion on a booze-soaked sailing trip to Catalina Island. But Elsa doesn’t want to celebrate. She is lost, lonely, and full of rage, and only wants to sink as low as the drugs and alcohol will take her. On Catalina, her determined unraveling and recklessness expose painful memories and dark desires, putting everyone in the group at risk. With the creeping menace of Patricia Highsmith and the bender-chic of Bret Easton Ellis, Liska Jacobs brings you inside the mind of an angry, reckless young woman hell-bent on destruction—every page taut with the knowledge that Elsa’s path does not lead to a happy...

Catalina

Autor: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Número de Páginas: 225

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom “[A] sparkling fiction debut.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “[A] fresh and unflinching take on the campus novel.”—People (Ten Best Books of the Year) “Diabolically charming and magnetic.”—Ira Glass FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, them When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the...

The Constant Princess

Autor: Philippa Gregory

Número de Páginas: 432

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Virgin's Lover," this enthralling new novel answers one of history's most intriguing questions: What lay behind Katherine of Aragon's enormous, history-changing lie?

Michael and Catalina

Autor: Francis Theriault

Número de Páginas: 186

Once a romanticist, always a romanticist, and Michael Ouellette in his late sixties and now living in Colombia meets a much younger women and tentatively falls in love. He discovers there are other problems besides the age difference to deal with; Americans living in Colombia who resent the relationship for personal reasons, the language difficulties hampering thoughtful communications and a mother who loves her daughter and feels the relationship is wrong. Set in the beautiful city of Medellin, Colombia, Michael finds that cultural differences can be hard to adjust to but can also help when two people, completely different, find strangely enough they have so much in common. Love finds its own way.

Catalina Eddy

Autor: Daniel Pyne

Número de Páginas: 481

"Daniel Pyne flips all the standards upside-down with Catalina Eddy and in the process delivers a classic California noir — times three. This is Pyne’s masterpiece. I guarantee no reader will go wanting.” –Michael Connelly Times may change, but crimes never do, and neither do the people who investigate them. A collection of three loosely connected crime novellas, each set in a distinct era, Catalina Eddy is a gritty, hard-boiled exploration into the immutable police underworld of Southern California. In The Big Empty, an obstinate Los Angeles detective investigates the murder of his estranged wife while fears of nuclear war and Communism grip the nation; in Losertown, a mid-career attorney in San Diego chases down a legendary drug kingpin but chafes against the Reagan Revolution policies of his new boss; and in Portuguese Bend, set in the present day, an undercover cop is paralyzed in a gunfight but determined to solve what may be her last case as a police officer in Long Beach. They are all, in one way or another, stuck in dreary endless loops of love, murder, and the quest for clarity, release, and redemption. Reminiscent of James Ellroy’s grittiness and Raymond...

Catalina

Autor: William Somerset Maugham

Número de Páginas: 268

The Adventures of a Swordsman

Autor: Cristina Iuga

Número de Páginas: 251

The Adventures of a Swordsman: First Volume relates the story full of mystery and adventure of a bandit who fights for justice, who faces the difficulties happened in his way from the feared governors and commanders who follow their interests treading even over the bodies and blood of the innocent ones. The action happens in a small picturesque village of Nueva Granada, a region of South America, the village being a colony of the Spanish Empire very rich on those times. The novel is fully documented regarding the perfume of that epoch set down a long time ago about which the children study only in the history booksthe eighteen century.

Unbound for Him: A Dark Romance

Autor: Marissa Farrar

Número de Páginas: 195

I’ve ruined her. Destroyed her. Taken the one thing of hers that had value. Her innocence. Now we’re on the run, with two powerful, dangerous men after us. Our feelings intensify with every passing day, and we can’t get enough of each other. But our love was never meant to be and we’re playing a deadly game.If they catch us, we’ll be made to pay with our lives...Or worse. Order book two in this heart-racing, dark romance series today!

On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis”

Autor: Gabriela Legorreta , Catalina Bronstein

Número de Páginas: 154

On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” explores these two key papers on the topics of psychosis and neurosis and their relationship to the unconscious and to reality. The contributors to this book approach these texts from both a historical and a contemporary point of view, highlighting their fundamental contributions and comparing Freud’s thoughts with modern psychoanalytic theory. The chapters demonstrate the ongoing richness of Freud’s work and his legacy by highlighting new ideas and developments and include both clinical vignettes and theoretical insight. The contributors also raise questions that deserve further study, about the understanding and treatment of psychosis in children, distinctions and similarities between autism and psychosis, and the way in which aspects of our rapidly changing world – social media, climate change, AI - influence the evolution of psychotic states. On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented clinicians in practice and in training. It will also be of...

From Duty to Desire

Autor: Jane Fishburne Collier

Número de Páginas: 286

In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a "modern subjectivity" among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of meeting social obligations, the people she interviewed more recently emphasized the need to think for oneself: status concerns in choosing a spouse had apparently been replaced by romantic love, patriarchal authority by partnership marriages, parental demands for obedience by hopes of earning children's affection, mourners' respect for the dead by personal expressions of grief. In each of these areas, the author detected a modern concern for "producing oneself," which emerged with changes in how villagers experienced social inequality. Collier notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for "what others might say." Once villagers began participating in the national job market, where individual achievement appeared to determine a worker's...

Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 1: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance

Autor: Philippa Gregory

Número de Páginas: 1216

From the bestselling author of THE WHITE QUEEN – the first three novels of her Tudor Court series: THE CONSTANT PRINCESS, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE

The Summer of Secrets

Autor: Alison Lucy

Número de Páginas: 234

One heady summer. Three big secrets. 1989: Newlyweds Danny and Harriet arrive at their honeymoon paradise in the Caribbean. Days later Harriet returns home. Danny is left distraught but finds comfort in the arms of two women. Nine months later, three baby girls are born... 2010: Megan leaves her childhood sweetheart behind in the UK to go in search of her long-lost father. Miles from home and temptation is at every corner - not least in the arms of the gorgeous Ray... Esmé, a Mexican beauty, married Miguel at fifteen. In unlocking the secrets of her past, can she shed the shackles of her enforced marriage? Claudia has led a life of privilege but she's never really known what it feels like to be loved. Could David be the answer? Or will he disappoint her, just like her mother always did? Three women set off on an adventure to uncover the secrets surrounding their missing father. It may be the only way to lay their demons to rest but seeking out the truth could tear their lives apart.

New Witch Temptations

Autor: Q. Zayne

Número de Páginas: 179

An inexperienced, curvy new witch. An arrogant, mysterious stranger. Dark power and forbidden longings. Lonely, innocent, 19 year-old Cassie finds the man she craves. But the wealthy Italian hunk is in their house for her supermodel Mummy-dearest. Her growing powers could give her everything she wants. For a price. Please note: This spicy dark fantasy is not a traditional romance novel, although there is a love story along with a tormented young witch coming of age. Rated 18+ for sensuality, language, age gap, dark themes, and possibly disturbing material including maternal body disapproval, love triangles, age gap, obsessions, punishment, witchcraft, grief, selfharm, and beyond.

Constructing Immigrant 'Illegality'

Autor: Cecilia Menjívar , Daniel Kanstroom

Número de Páginas: 417

This collection examines how immigration law shapes immigrant illegality, the concept of immigrant illegality, and how its power is wielded and resisted.

Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers

Autor: Conra D. Gist , Travis J. Bristol

Número de Páginas: 1167

Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers are underrepresented in public schools across the United States of America, with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color making up roughly 37% of the adult population and 50% of children, but just 19% of the teaching force. Yet research over decades has indicated their positive impact on student learning and social and emotional development, particularly for Students of Color and Indigenous Students. A first of its kind, the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers addresses key issues and obstacles to ethnoracial diversity across the life course of teachers’ careers, such as recruitment and retention, professional development, and the role of minority-serving institutions. Including chapters from leading researchers and policy makers, the Handbook is designed to be an important resource to help bridge the gap between scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. In doing so, this research will serve as a launching pad for discussion and change at this critical moment in our country’s history. The volume’s goal is to drive conversations around the issue of ethnoracial teacher diversity and to provide concrete...

The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World

Autor: Nerina Weiss , Erella Grassiani , Linda Green

Número de Páginas: 193

This book focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts of violence and provides a forum for field-based researchers to tell their stories. Increasingly novice and seasoned ethnographers alike, whether by choice or chance, are working in situations where multidimensional forms of violence, conflict and war are facets of everyday life. The volume engages with the methodological and ethical issues involved and features a range of expressive writings that reveal personal consequences and dilemmas. The contributors use their emotions, their scars, outrage and sadness alongside their hopes and resilience to give voice to that which is often silenced, to make visible the entanglements of fieldwork and its lingering vulnerabilities. The book brings to the fore the lived experiences of researchers and their interlocutors alike with the hope of fostering communities of care. It will be valuable reading for anthropologists and those from other disciplines who are embarking on ethnographic fieldwork and conducting qualitative empirical research.

Red Hot Santa

Autor: Cherry Adair , Leanne Banks , Pamela Britton , Kelsey Roberts

Número de Páginas: 338

This holiday season, four bestselling authors give the gift that keeps on giving: gripping tales of special agents in a covert agency, out to protect the innocent . . . by any means necessary. Snowball’s Chance by Cherry Adair–Kendall decks the halls, unaware that a serial killer has her on the top of his list. Of course, being naughty with the sexy good guy sent to protect her would be so nice. Santa Slave by Leanne Banks–After her best friend disappears, Hilary takes matters into her own hands and finds herself caught in the throes of danger, while a hunky male operative hopes to mix pleasure with business. Runaway Santa by Pamela Britton–Biologist Kaitlyn Moneypenny’s research is finally leading to a big scientific breakthrough . . . and mortal peril. When bullets start to fly, so do the sparks between Kaitlyn and her Santa-clad rescuer. Killer Christmas by Kelsey Roberts–When several Santas are murdered at a swanky department store, the new CEO, Meghan Beckham, had better watch out, had better not cry–because a serial killer has come to town.

Will to Wild

Autor: Shelby Stanger

Número de Páginas: 288

"Will to Wild is an instruction manual to adventure. Your guide: enthusiastic outdoorswoman Shelby Stanger. Shelby has been teaching folks how to leap into the unknown since she taught her first surf class over twenty years ago. Over the years, she watched many of her students quit their jobs, end dysfunctional relationships, and move across the country for a healthier work-life-balance--all after spending a bit of time in nature. Shelby marveled at the phenomenon. Being outside was changing the lives of her students, her peers, and herself. Shelby was so intrigued, she began to tell their stories, first as a writer and journalist, then as a podcast host for Wild Ideas Worth Living, REI Co-op Studio's flagship podcast." --

The Days of Summer

Autor: Jill Barnett

Número de Páginas: 370

Things couldn't be going better for Troy White. The Atlanta Falcons' football genius is at the top of his game, helping the team get to the playoffs. Agents and lawyers are knocking on his door with big-money offers for the upcoming season. And his own football team has just won the Georgia State Championship! Troy's celebrating with his friends at linebacker Seth Halloway's mansion when another lawyer comes knocking—and he says, "I think I'm your father." In that instant, Troy's life is changed. Powerfully charged from start to finish, this is an amazing portrayal of Troy's struggle to make his lifetime dreams of being with his father come true. Filled with page-turning excitement as a high-stakes deal increases the clash of family tension, The Big Time is an unforgettable experience.

The Novelist: a collection of the standard novels

Autor: Novelist

Número de Páginas: 746

The Psychology of Extremism

Autor: Arie Kruglanski , Catalina Kopetz , Ewa Szumowska

Número de Páginas: 305

This ground-breaking book introduces a new model of extremism that emphasizes motivational imbalance among individual needs, offering a unique multidisciplinary exploration of extreme behaviors relating to terrorism, dieting, sports, love, addictions, and money. In popular discourse, the term ‘extremism’ has come to mean largely ‘violent extremism’, but this is just one of many different types: extreme sports, extreme diets, political and religious extremisms, extreme self-interest, extreme attitudes, extreme devotion to a cause, addiction to substances, or behavioral addiction (to videogames, shopping, pornography, sex, and work). But do these descriptions have a deeper meaning? Do they reveal a common psychological dynamic? Or are they merely a mode of things about phenomena that have little in common? Bringing together world-leading psychologists from a variety of disciplines, the book uses a brand-new model to examine different expressions of extremism, at different levels of analysis (brain, hormones, and behavior), in order not merely to describe such behaviors but also to explain their occurrence, and the conditions under which they may be likely to emerge. Also...

Don Miguel Lehumada

Autor: Sue Greenleaf

Número de Páginas: 213

In "Don Miguel Lehumada," Sue Greenleaf weaves a rich tapestry of cultural identity and exploration, reflecting the complexities of life on the borders of tradition and modernity. The narrative, penned in a vividly descriptive style, oscillates between lyrical prose and sharp social commentary, offering profound insights into the protagonist's journey through a world marked by contrasting values and the weight of familial expectations. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society, Greenleaf's work evokes the intricacies of cultural heritage while investigating themes of resilience and self-discovery. Sue Greenleaf, an accomplished writer and anthropologist with deep ties to the communities she portrays, draws from her own heritage to illuminate the struggles and triumphs of her characters. Her background influences her narrative choices, imbuing the text with authenticity and personal resonance. As a keen observer of socio-cultural dynamics, Greenleaf artfully navigates the intersections of identity and belonging, providing a fertile ground for her protagonist'Äôs exploration of self amidst societal pressures. Recommended for readers who appreciate poignant character...

Race After the Internet

Autor: Lisa Nakamura , Peter Chow-white

Número de Páginas: 353

In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate changing ideas of race within the context of an increasingly digitally mediatized cultural and informational landscape. Using social scientific, rhetorical, textual, and ethnographic approaches, these essays show how new and old styles of race as code, interaction, and image are played out within digital networks of power and privilege. Race After the Internet includes essays on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to social media technologies like Facebook and MySpace, popular online games like World of Warcraft, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, and DNA databases in health and law enforcement. Contributors also investigate the ways in which racial profiling and a culture of racialized surveillance arise from the confluence of digital data and rapid developments in biotechnology. This collection aims to broaden the definition...

For Him: The Complete Series

Autor: Marissa Farrar

Número de Páginas: 378

I'm the son of ruthless criminal. She is innocence incarnate. My Catalina... The girl I grew up with. I'll sacrifice everything for her. But I've been ordered to break that innocence. To take it, and corrupt it into something else. Something darker. Dirtier. To prepare her for a world she's been sheltered from all these years. She calls me her Angel. But I'm the one who just might destroy her. Get the complete trilogy of this disturbingly dark romance as one great boxed set today!

The People of Aritama

Autor: Alicia Reichel-dolmatoff , Gerardo Reichel-dolmatoff

Número de Páginas: 516

This book covers the life of a small Mestizo community in Columbia, with its people and institutions, its traditions in the past and its outlook on the future. Chapters include: · information on the health and nutritional status of the community * discussion of formal education and certain sets of patterned attitudes such as those which refer to work, illness, food and personal prestige. Originally published in 1961.

What Do We Need Men For?

Autor: E. Jean Carroll

Número de Páginas: 311

A The Washington Post 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 "A work of comic genius." —Mary Norris, The New Yorker “Darkly humorous and deadly serious.” –Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post “A compulsively interesting feminist memoir.” –Virginia Heffernan, Slate "Somehow hilarious, in the way that only E. Jean could have written it" –Leigh Haber, Oprah Magazine America's longest running advice columnist goes on the road to speak to women about hideous men and whether we need them. When E. Jean Carroll—possibly the liveliest woman in the world and author of the “Ask E. Jean” advice column in Elle Magazine, realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed to have one thing in common—problems caused by men—she hit the road. Crisscrossing the country with her blue-haired poodle, Lewis Carroll, E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between Eden, Vermont and Tallulah, Louisiana to ask women the crucial question: What Do We Need Men For? E. Jean gave her rollicking road trip a sly, stylish turn when she deepened the story, creating a list called “The Most Hideous Men of My Life,” and began to reflect on her own sometimes...

Почему социальные сети разрушают вашу жизнь

Autor: Кэтрин Ормерод

Número de Páginas: 282

В своей книге «Почему социальные сети разрушают вашу жизнь», удостоенной высших рейтингов Amazon и Barnes&Noble, Кэтрин Ормерод, успешный журналист, консультант и создатель онлайн-проектов, раскрывает, как пристрастие к социальным сетям изменило наши поведенческие модели, разрушило нашу уверенность в себе, сделало нас тревожными и снизило способность концентрировать внимание, и предоставляет знания и инструменты для осознания и борьбы с самой сильной зависимостью, которой сейчас подвержено человечество, – зависимостью от социальных сетей.Книга рассказывает, как уберечь свое здоровье, отношения и карьеру, как научиться анализировать то, что видишь на...

The New American Farmer

Autor: Laura-anne Minkoff-zern

Número de Páginas: 215

An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. Although the majority of farms in the United States have US-born owners who identify as white, a growing number of new farmers are immigrants, many of them from Mexico, who originally came to the United States looking for work in agriculture. In The New American Farmer, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries—including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor—most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States. Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from...

That First Heady Burn

Autor: George Bixley

Número de Páginas: 178

A Stranger at Castonbury

Autor: Amanda Mccabe

Número de Páginas: 142

"It's hard for me to admit, but you're not the son I once knew..."The obliterated battlefields of Spain are a world away from the privileged life of James Montague, Earl of Castonbury. Only nurse Catalina Moreno eases the deafening roar of mortar fire—and in a crumbling chapel by candlelight they make their vows. But before the sheets cool from their scorching wedding night Jamie leaves for a brutally dangerous mission... Two years later, believing her husband dead, Catalina is shocked to see a man who looks and sounds like her Jamie at Castonbury—but where once there was warmth and charm now unflinching torment lies in the gaze of a man she barely recognises...

Tenerife and its six satellites, or the Canary Islands past and present

Autor: Olivia M. Stone

Número de Páginas: 494

Office 2021 for Macs For Dummies

Autor: Bob Levitus , Dwight Spivey

Número de Páginas: 435

Turn your Mac into a productivity powerhouse with Office 2021! Long gone are the days when Microsoft's powerful office suite was just for Windows users. Mac enthusiasts are also able to pop open ubiquitous apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on their preferred desktop or laptop! But if you're new to Microsoft Office on the Mac—or you just need a hand with some of its latest features—you should check out Office 2021 For Macs For Dummies. This handy guide will show you how to conquer the essentials of all the key apps that make Office 2021 such a productivity booster. You'll also discover: Brand-new features, like an improved dark mode and better accessibility capabilities How to share documents directly in a collaborative setting How Microsoft's Text Predictions work in various apps in Office 2021 Ideal for Mac-lovers who can't escape the lure of Microsoft's iconic office software, Office 2021 For Macs For Dummies is a can't-miss resource that will help you successfully blend the reliable computing power of your Mac or MacBook with the productivity power of Microsoft Office.

The Spanish Love Deception

Autor: Elena Armas

Número de Páginas: 448

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TikTok sensation, this rom-com about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister’s wedding has “everything you could want in a romance” (Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author). Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool. Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

Número de Páginas: 812

Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. Vol 1

Autor: Bernal Díaz Del Castillo

Número de Páginas: 743

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 – ca. 1580) was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortés. Born in Medina del Campo (Spain), he came from a family of little wealth and he himself had received only a minimal education. He sailed to Tierra Firme in 1514 to make his fortune, but after two years found few opportunities there. Much of the native population had already been killed by epidemics and there was political unrest. So he sailed to Cuba, where he was promised a grant of Indian slaves. But that promise was never fulfilled, leading Díaz, in 1517, to join an expedition being organized by a group of about 110 fellow settlers from Tierra Firme and similarly disaffected Spaniards. They chose Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, a wealthy Cuban landowner, to lead the expedition. It was a difficult venture, and although they discovered the Yucatán coast, by the time the expedition returned to Cuba they were in disastrous shape. Nevertheless, Díaz returned to the coast of Yucatán the following year, on an expedition led by Juan de Grijalva, with the intent of exploring...

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Autor: Bernal Díaz Del Castillo

Número de Páginas: 424

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Autor: Bernal Díaz Del Castillo

Número de Páginas: 1017

In "The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal D√≠az del Castillo," the author presents a compelling first-hand account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, blending vivid narrative with keen observations that reflect both the brutality and wonder of the New World. Written in an accessible yet richly descriptive prose style, D√≠az del Castillo'Äôs memoirs serve as both a historical document and a literary testament, capturing the complexities of early colonial interactions, indigenous cultures, and the motivations behind the pursuit of wealth and glory. This work is particularly significant within the context of 16th-century Spanish literature, as it diverges from the romanticized tales of conquest, offering a more grounded perspective through the eyes of a participant who sought to document the truth of his experiences. Bernal D√≠az del Castillo, a soldier and chronicler, was motivated by his desire to provide a truthful account of the events surrounding the fall of the Aztec Empire, countering the embellished narratives of other conquistadors. His unique position as a participant in the conquest allowed him to gain intimate insights into the lives of both Spaniards and...

Memoirs, of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo written by himself containing a true and full account of the discovery and conquest of Mexico and New Spain

Autor: Bernal D?az Del Castillo

Número de Páginas: 416

The Autobiography of Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Autor: Bernal Díaz Del Castillo

Número de Páginas: 962

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillois a first-person narrative by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler who served in three Mexican expeditions; those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of Juan de Grijalva (1518), and the expedition of Hernán Cortés (1519) in the Valley of Mexico; the history relates his participation in the fall of Emperor Moctezuma II, and the subsequent defeat of the Aztec Empire.