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"Jack London, seudónimo de John Griffith London, nació en San Fracisco (California) en 1876, falleciendo en 1916. Su propia vida constituyó el patrón que daba la medida de sus novelas, todas ellas de arrollador interés por lo que tienen de veraz y de calor vital. Su infancia dura, su juventud atormentada y sus ideas en confrontación con Nietzsche, Marx y Spencer, le permitieron ver con claridad en el laberinto de pasiones e intereses en que se monvían los héroes de sus dinámicos relatos. Destacan entre su producción literaria: 'El hijo del lobo', 'La llama de la selva', 'Martin Eden' (novela autobiográfica), 'La guerra de clases', 'Colmillo blanco', y esta obra que hoy presentamos, 'Aurora espléndida', quizá la más característica, en la que se recoge de manera magistral la epopeya de los buscadores de oro en Alaska, admirable retablo de tipos humanos, en un ambiente de extraordinario dramatismo. 'Aurora espléndida' es una obra maestra de un escritor superdotado que introduce al lector en la magia de un mundo que ha dejado profunda huella en la narrativa de las grandes conquistas de la naturaleza"--Back cover.
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Aurora
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"Perhaps the most recognized and widely collected photographer of botanical studies working today, Ron van Dongen's recent shift to color work was documented in our previous monograph, 'Effusus', which was published in 2005 and has since sold out. We are pleased to announce his follow-up book, 'Aurora', presenting 33 gorgeous new plates printed--as with all of his Nazraeli Press monographs--in an oversized format bound in Japanese cloth. This new work adds to the Dutch photographer's long and skilled study of flora in its many incarnations"--Publisher's description.
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The "California Gold Rush Fleet Encyclopedia of Vessels Sailing from the East Coast of the United States and Canada for San Francisco, December 7, 1848-December 31, 1849" comprises individual histories of 762 ships as well as various subject files, arranged in alphabetical order. Goodman records a broad spectrum of information derived from a variety of sources about the multitude of Gold Rush vessels. The bulk of the manuscripts are photocopies and some are heavily annotated in the author's hand. Some histories include hand colored illustrations of maps and ships. They were written and edited between 1970-1991.
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