Bolvar: Libertador de Amrica / Bolivar: American Liberator (Spanish Edition)

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Un relato biogrfico vibrante que captura la pica historia de Simn Bolvar El Libertador. Simn Bolvar se gan el sobrenombre de El Libertador tras poner fin al dominio espaol sobre seis pases. Su vida fue heroica trgica y legendaria: viaj del Amazonas a los Andes libr eternas batallas forj alianzas entre razas rivales... Partiendo de un gran abanico de fuentes Marie Arana captura un vvido retrato de la Suramrica de inicios del siglo XIX la que forj a Bolvar y lo convirti en un valeroso general un estratega brillante un escritor portentoso y un poltico sin parangn; en definitiva uno de los personajes ms admirados de Latinoamrica. Bolvar es una biografa trepidante en la que el lector hallar la imagen de una vida trgica capturada en todo su esplendor y un conmovedor manifiesto de la verdadera esencia del pueblo latinoamericano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic this is the authoritative biography of the warrior-statesman who was the greatest figure in Latin American history. It is astonishing that Simn Bolvar the great Liberator of South America is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule traveled more than 75 000 miles on horseback to do so and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic heroic straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and never remarried (although he did have a succession of mistresses including one who held up the revolution and another who saved his life) and he died relatively young uncertain whether his achievements would endure. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents novelist and journalist Marie Arana brilliantly captures early nineteenth-century South America and the explosive tensions that helped revolutionize Bolvar. In 1813 he launched a campaign for the independence of Colombia and Venezuela commencing a dazzling career that would take him across the rugged terrain of South America from Amazon jungles to the Andes mountains. From his battlefield victories to his ill-fated marriage and legendary love affairs Bolvar emerges as a man of many facets: fearless general brilliant strategist consummate diplomat passionate abolitionist gifted writer and flawed politician. A major work of history Bolvar colorfully portrays a dramatic life even as it explains the rivalries and complications that bedeviled Bolvars tragic last days. It is also a stirring declaration of what it means to be a South American.