Ergebnis für "El conquistador" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Frenchman Lionel Terray is one of mountaineering history's greatest alpinists, and his autobiography, Conquistadors of the Useless, stands among the "100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time", according to National Geographic Adventure magazine. Following World War II, when France desperately needed successes to heal its wounds, Terray emerged as a national hero, conquering summits atop the planet's highest mountains.

If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this book for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors. Somewhat in the manner of a modern film documentary, it treats the so-called conquest as an historical event that’s worth learning about for its own sake, with most of the moralizing left to the listener.

La Vida de Alejandro Magno es un libro esencial para aquellos que quieran aprender acerca de uno de los líderes militares más influyentes de la historia. Este libro ofrece una visión concisa y completa de la vida y logros de Alejandro Magno, desde sus comienzos hasta su prematura muerte a los 32 años de edad. El libro comienza con la infancia de Alejandro, incluyendo su educación bajo la tutela de Aristóteles y la muerte de su padre, el rey Filipo II.