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Desde un pequeño pueblo de León, el joven Paco se embarca en un viaje vital a través de los siete mares, a través de las décadas, a través de la gente que va conociendo.Un relato en primera persona del mundo y de España tal y como eran hace unos años, desde la perspectiva única que da la distancia de pasar largas temporadas en alta mar.Una vida como legado.Francisco García Cara rememora en este volumen sus vivencias como marino mercante y reflexiona sobre el mundo que nos ha tocado vivir.

Composer, musician, and philanthropist Peter Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, says that the only real inheritance handed down from his parents was a philosophy: Forge your own path in life. It is a creed that has allowed him to follow his own passions, establish his own identity, and reap his own successes. Today's society, Buffett posits, has begun to replace a work ethic, relishing what you do, with a wealth ethic, honoring the payoff instead of the process. Yet, by focusing more on substance and less on reward, we can open doors of opportunity and strive toward a...

«Uno no acaba de saber “de qué va” un libro hasta que ha terminado de juntar las piezas. Extiendo ahora las cartas sobre la mesa, y me doy cuenta de que esta constelación de relatos breves y novelas cortas, de paseos y recuerdos entre la ficción y la crónica, dibuja, a su manera, una nueva entrega (otras voces, otras épocas, otras formas) de la autobiografía que comenzó con Un jardín abandonado por los pájaros, porque a fin de cuentas resulta que me parezco bastante a ese tipo que asoma por muchas de las esquinas, bajo diversas luces, con abrigos o camisas hawaianas, bigotes...

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable...