La flor letal

Cristóbal Colón fue el cronista de su propia hazaña: un viaje y un descubrimiento que cambiaron el mundo entero. Un documento fundamental para conocer y entender el descubrimiento de América, a partir de las dos versiones conocidas del diario de Cristóbal Colón: la de Hernando Colón y la de Fray Bartolomé de las Casas. En 1492, el mundo se desdobló: Cristóbal Colón realizó un viaje que desembocaría en el descubrimiento de América. Durante su travesía, el Almirante asumió el papel de cronista y redactó un puntual libro de bitácora, de méritos más notariales que literarios....

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En momentos en que nuestros gobernantes pretenden convencernos de que nos enfrentamos a un “choque de civilizaciones” del que depende nuestro futuro, conviene poner en claro qué es en realidad la civilización que se nos llama a defender. Este libro nos lleva, para ello, a una fascinante revisión crítica de la historia, que nos demuestra que la idea de un modelo occidental de civilización, cuya extensión al mundo entero debería conducir a una felicidad universal, ha sido una de las principales causas de muchas de las catástrofes del pasado y del presente. “La incómoda verdad a...