Caroline Alexander

Pocas historias tan emocionantes como la que se recoge en Atrapados por el hielo, la lucha del hombre por sobrevivir en un medio adverso.En agosto de 1914, el famoso explorador Ernest Shackleton junto a su tripulacion de veintisiete hombres se embarcaron rumbo al Atlantico Sur con la intencion de conseguir un hito en la historia de la exploracion: realizar el primer viaje a pie a la Antartida. Despues de abrirse camino por un mar de hielo helado, y cuando solo les separaban de su destino ciento sesenta kilometros, el barco en el que viajaban, elEndurance, se quedo atrapado en el hielo y la tripulacion quedo abandonada a su suerte. La terrible experiencia, convertida en una lucha desesperada del hombre contra la naturaleza, duro mas de veinte meses antes de ser rescatados, y fue un autentico milagro que salieran con vida. Entre la tripulacion del Endurance se encontraba el fotografo y realizador australiano Frank Hurley. Mas de un centenar de las fotografias y de las imagenes que realizo durante la expedicion han llegado a nuestros dias, aportando al libro un extraordinario valor documental.

La legendaria expedición a la Antártida de Ernest Shackleton.La legendaria expedición a la Antártida de Ernest Shackleton.En 1914 el explorador Ernest Shackleton y su tripulación partieron para hacer el primer viaje a pie por la Antartida, pero su barco quedo atrapado. El fascinante relato de una de las mayores epopeyas en la lucha del hombre frente a la Naturaleza.

Durante siglos la Ilíada fue para poetas y pensadores objeto de lecturas e interpretaciones, así como un inestimable canto epico del guerrero, que preparaba a los jóvenes para una muerte gloriosa. Sin embargo, Aquiles, el personaje central de la epopeya homerica, el guerrero por antonomasia, es un heroe inquietante e introvertido, acerrimo detractor de Agamenon, el lider de los aqueos, que inicio la guerra y permitio que se prolongase durante años sacrificando las vidas de soldados y civiles. Este extraordinario ensayo, lejos de centrarse en cuestiones tradicionales tratadas durante siglos por especialistas, pretende mostrar de manera radical aquello que la Iliada nos revela sobre la guerra, una catastrofe que no solo aniquila a los mejores guerreros sino que deja a niños huerfanos, destruye ciudades y arrasa civilizaciones enteras.

The Iliad is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced. For a hundred generations, poets and thinkers in the West have pored over, retold and argued about the events described in this martial epic, even when direct knowledge of it was lost. Various empires have admired it as a book that in telling the story of the siege of Troy also extols the warrior ethic, and teaches the young how to die well.Yet the figure at the heart of the epic, the consummate warrior Achilles, is a brooding, controversial hero. He is a fierce critic of those who have started this war and allowed it to drag on, consuming soldiers and civilians alike. Disconcertingly, The Iliad portrays war as a catastrophe that destroys cities, orphans children and wrecks whole societies.Caroline Alexanders extraordinary book is not about any of the traditional concerns that have occupied classicists for centuries. It is simpler and more radical than that. In her words, This book is about what the Iliad is about; this book is about what the Iliad says of war.

Riveting The New York TimesTHE LITTLE KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES FIGHT IN WWII S CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA BURMA INDIA THEATER In April 1942 the Imperial Japanese Army captured Burma closing the

En agosto de 1914, el famoso explorador Ernest Schackleton y una tripulación de veintisiete hombres partieron hacia el Atlántico para hacer el primer viaje a pie por la Antártida. Tras abrirse camino por el helado mar, su barco quedo atrapado en los hielos. Este libro recrea la impresionante belleza del oceano Austral, la terrible destruccion del barco en que viajaban los exploradores y la heroica lucha diaria de la tripulacion para sobrevivir.

En 1914 el famoso explorador Ernest Shackleton y una tripulación de 27 hombres partieron hacia el Atlántico sur en busca del primer viaje a pie por la Antártida. El Endurance quedó atrapado en los hielos y la tripulacion abandonada a su suerte.

La legendaria expedición a la Antártida de Shackleton, con las impactantes fotografías de Frank Hurley. Sinopsis: En agosto de 1914, días antes del estallido de la primera guerra mundial, el famoso explorador Ernest Shackleton y una tripulacion de vein

En agosto de 1914, días antes del estallido de la primera guerra mundial, el famoso explorador Ernest Shackleton y una tripulación de veintisiete hombres partieron hacia el Atlántico sur en busca de la ultima meta en la historia de los exploradores: el primer viaje a pie por la Antartida. Tras abrirse camino por el helado mar de Weddell, y cuando les faltaban solo ciento sesenta kilometros para llegar a su destino, su barco, el Endurance, quedo atrapado en los hielos y la tripulacion, abandonada a su suerte. Su terrible experiencia duro veinte meses, en los que realizaron dos intentos casi fatales de escapar antes del rescate final. Contando con informacion inedita, Caroline Alexander nos ofrece un fascinante relato de la expedicion de Shackleton, una de las mayores epopeyas en la lucha del hombre frente a la Naturaleza. Nos presenta, ademas, el sorprendente trabajo del fotografo australiano Frank Hurley, cuyas imagenes sobre la aventura nunca se habian publicado en su totalidad. Texto e ilustraciones recrean la impresionante belleza del oceano Austral, la terrible destruccion del barco y la heroica lucha diaria de la tripulacion para sobrevivir, un milagro que se logro, en buena medida, gracias al liderazgo de Shackleton.

A REPRESENTAÇÃO COM PRECISÃO INIGUALÁVEL DE UMA DAS HISTÓRIAS MAIS ATEMPORAIS DA CIVILIZAÇÃOA guerra que matou Aquiles: A verdadeira história da Ilíada, diferentemente da maioria das obras sobre o te

"Spectacular and constantly surprising." -Ken Burns Written with the authority of a scholar and the vigor of a bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly timely presentation of one of the timeless stories of Western civilization. As she did in The Endurance and The Bounty, New York Times bestselling author Caroline Alexander has taken apart a narrative we think we know and put it back together in a way that lets us see its true power. In the process, she reveals the intended theme of Homers masterwork-the tragic lessons of war and its enduring devastation.

Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scotts Scott Free Productions. More than two centuries after Masters Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave mans honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.

A New York Times Editors ChoiceRiveting. The New York TimesFrom the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War IIIn April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by airmeaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on the Hump, the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.They flew fickle, untested aircraft through monsoons and enemy fire, with inaccurate maps and only primitive navigation technology. The result was a litany of both deadly crashes and astonishing feats of survival. The most chaotic of all the wars arenas, the China-Burma-India theater was further confused by the conflicting political interests of Roosevelt, Churchill and their demanding, nominal ally, Chiang Kai-shek.Caroline Alexander, who wrote the defining books on Shackletons Endurance and Blighs Bounty, is brilliant at probing what it takes to survive extreme circumstances. She has unearthed obscure memoirs and long-ignored records to give us the pilots and soldiers eye views of flying and combat, as well as honest portraits of commanders like the celebrated Vinegar Joe Stillwell and Claire Lee Chennault. She assesses the real contributions of units like the Flying Tigers, Merrills Marauders, and the British Chindits, who pioneered new and unconventional forms of warfare. Decisions in this theater exposed the fault-lines between the AlliesAmerica and Britain, Britain and India, and ultimately and most fatefully between America and China, as FDR pressed to help the Chinese nationalists in order to forge a bond with China after the war. A masterpiece of modern war history.

The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty the most famous sea story of all time. More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. Caroline Alexander focusses on the court martial of the ten mutineers captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in Portsmouth. Each figure emerges as a richly drawn character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. With enormous scholarship and exquisitely drawn characters, The Bounty is a tour de force. Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homers timeless heroic tale of the Trojan War.Composed around 730 B.C., Homers Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year military war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, this foundational work of ancient Greek literature explores the abiding, blighting facts of war.Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men, women, young, oldThe Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Battle of Troy. And, as told by Homer, this ancient epic of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages.Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexanders new English translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its sourcea Homeric epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.This essential translation of the foundational ancient epic offers: A New Translation: Experience the Trojan War through the eyes of acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander, whose swift and lean prose is carved close to the original Homeric Greek. The Wrath of Achilles: Witness the explosive confrontation between the godlike warrior Achilles and the Greek leader Agamemnona bitter feud that changes the course of the war. Greek Mythology: Enter a world of gods and mortals, where the fates of soldiers, civilians, victors, and vanquished are tangled in a devastating conflict. Ancient Poetry: Discover the power of Homers enduring Bronze Age masterpiece, a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war that resonates through the ages.

El mes d’agost de 1914, dies abans de l’esclat de la primera guerra mundial, el famós explorador Ernest Shackleton i una tripulació de vint-i-set homes van emabarcar-se cap a l’Atlàntic sud amb la in

Drawing on previously unavailable sources, this riveting account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica presents, for the first time, 150 images by Australian photographer Frank Hurley, whose stunning visual record of the ordeal was--amazingly--preserved. "National Geographic" feature.

La legendaria expedición a la Antártida de Shackleton, con las impactantes fotografías de Frank Hurley. Incluye un DVD. En agosto de 1914, el famoso explorador Ernest Shackleton junto a su tripulación de veintisiete hombres se embarcaron rumbo al Atlantico Sur con la intencion de conseguir un hito en la historia de la exploracion: realizar el primer viaje a pie a la Antartida. Despues de abrirse camino por un mar de hielo helado, y cuando solo les separaban de su destino ciento sesenta kilometros, el barco en el que viajaban, el Endurance, se quedo atrapado en el hielo y la tripulacion quedo abandonada a su suerte. La terrible experiencia, convertida en una lucha desesperada del hombre contra la naturaleza, duro mas de veinte meses antes de ser rescatados, y fue un autentico milagro que salieran con vida. Entre la tripulacion del Endurance se encontraba el fotografo y realizador australiano Frank Hurley. Mas de un centenar de las fotografias y de las imagenes que realizo durante la expedicion han llegado a nuestros dias, aportando tanto al libro como a la pelicula un extraordinario valor documental...