Afro-Latinoamérica, 1800-2000. Traductor: Óscar de la Torre Cueva.

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

Alfredo Coviello: Nacido en Buenos Aires el 25 de abril de 1898. Centro de sus actividades: Tucuman. Anos de mayor actuacion: 1933 a fines de 1943. Sede principal de sus actividades: el diario La Gaceta. Otros ambitos: Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Sociedad Sarmiento, Filial Tucuman de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (S.A.D.E.). Fundador y director de la revista Sustancia. Fallecio en Tucuman, a los 46 anos de edad, el 13 de julio de 1944."

PATRICIO DE ROMA es una obra de narrativa histórica en la que se cuentan en primera persona las aventuras de un patricio romano, Cayo Emilio Flavio, contemporáneo de Octavio Augusto, que a su servicio y junto al arquitecto Marco Vitruvio, desarrolla en su primera etapa profesional como ingeniero civil, una serie de obras importantes de construcción e infraestructuras en diversos confines del Imperio, como el Limes Septentrional, cruzando Italia, Francia, Suiza y Alemania por la frontera del Rin, así como el Mediterráneo Oriental, Asia Menor, Egipto y el sur de Arabia. En su madurez asume ...

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