Michael Wood

La milenaria historia de una civilización y un pueblo China es una de las civilizaciones más antiguas de la Tierra, pero sus cuatro milenios de historia son muy poco conocidos en Occidente. Michael

Uma viagem para o passado de uma superpotência globalA China é a civilização mais antiga da Terra, mas sua história é pouco conhecida pelo resto do mundo. A narrativa brilhante de Michael Wood – que

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More than two millennia ago, Alexander the Great changed the course of human history in an astonishingly short time: He acceded to the throne of Macedon at the age of just 20, and by the time he was 30 he had conquered the known world. At 32 he was dead. His 22,000-mile journey to India and back opened up connections between the East and West, and even today its traces can be found throughout Asia-- in cultures, legends, place names and traditions. Filmmaker and journalist Michael Wood has retraced Alexander's journey--by car, horse, camel, boat and even on foot-- resulting in the engaging In the Footsteps of Alexander. (He travelled with a small, hardy film crew, and together they also produced a PBS documentary of the same name.) Wood's text vividly brings Alexander's times to life, as he mixes accounts of his own adventures and encounters with the story of Alexander's journey. Accompanying the text is a well-chosen assortment of maps, photographs and reproductions of artwork and artefacts. Alexander aficionados and neophytes alike will find much to inform and delight them in this handsome volume.

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Este magnífico libro examina la leyenda de Troya y nos hace evocar vívidamente episodios centrales los temas que son centrales para la búsqueda del pasado de nuestra civilización. New York Times Book Review A lo largo de los siglos los mitos que se refieren a la guerra de Troya y a sus protagonistas Aquiles, Hector, Elena-, transmitidos desde la Iliada por una numerosa secuencia de recreaciones literarias, han mantenido viva su fascinacion. Solo cuando Heinrich Schliemann pretendio hacia 1873 haber descubierto el tesoro de Priamo y las ruinas de Troya en Hisarlik, en la actual Turquia, comenzo a pensarse en la posibilidad de que los acontecimientos narrados por Homero tuviesen una base historica. Michael Wood nos narra en estas paginas la cronica milenaria de la busqueda de Troya, prestando especial atencion a las excavaciones de las ultimas decadas, hasta el hallazgo en Besik Tepe de lo que los antiguos creian que era la tumba de Aquiles, y de un cementerio con restos de cremaciones, en lo que se supone que es la posible localizacion del campamento de los sitiadores de Troya.

In 1982, North Sea ferry MV Norland transported passengers and vehicles between Hull and Rotterdam. Requisitioned as a troop ship to take the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment to the Falklands, the volunteer merchant navy crew were told they would only go as far as the Ascension Island and that they should think of it as an extended North Sea booze-cruise run. However, without notice Norlands role was changed and it became the first vessel to enter San Carlos Water, ending up a sitting duck in Bomb Alley air raids while disembarking troops and carrying out resupply runs.Narrowly escaping sinking, the ship was used as a shelter for survivors and for collecting the Gurkhas from the QE2 in South Georgia, ready for disembarking in San Carlos Bay, before repatriating Argentine POWs. Long after the surrender, MV Norland provided a ferry service between the Falklands and Ascension Island. While many in the war served an average of 100 days, for the crew of the Norland it was ten months; indeed, they were considered the first in and the last out. This is a gripping account of non-combatant volunteers railroaded into serving in a war they hadnt signed up for.