El viaje de Torres de Veracruz a Manila

Una mirada fascinante al continente africano para descubrir vidas, culturas, tradiciones, sabores y olores, que invitan al lector a inventar su propia África.

The seven beautiful short in this collection concern the lives of an upper-middle-class family in small town Argentina in the 1930s. It is a patriarchal society, bound to fading customs and harsh realities. The Model T has arrived and so too has the Olympic swimmer Jonny Weissmuller, but little of the outside world is know first-hand, instead only as depicted in the French novels they read. The collection is followed by the author's notes on his thoughts about the writing of each story.

Mongolia. Solo su nombre ya evoca a pastores nómadas, agiles caballos y, por supuesto, a un hombre legendario: Gengis Kan. Muchos viajeros al norte de la Gran Muralla esperan encontrar hordas de mongoles que galopan por las extensas praderas, pero la realidad es muy distinta: la Mongolia Interior (Nei Měnggǔ) del s. XXI es bastante diferente. • Ensillar un caballo y cabalgar por las praderas de Hūlúnbèi'ěr. • Descubrir los misterios esotéricos del budismo tibetano en Dà Zhào y asombrarse con las estatuas tántricas expuestas en la pagoda de Wǔtǎ. • Pasear entre antiguas...

Ever dreamed of owning a restaurant? I know I have. I think owning a restaurant would be fun. But it would require a lot of hours and a lot of work. So I settle for dreaming about restaurants I'd like to eat at. Undoubtedly it will happen that when I'm with others, they'll ask where I want to go to eat. Since I can't actually believe they'll go where I want to go, I let them decide. Besides, I can dream of much better restaurants than any that actually exist. So, since I'm not going to create these restaurants, I decided to tell you about them. Perhaps you'll create them. Even if you don't,...