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The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century's most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, it successfully overthrew the island nation's US-backed dictator, and it quickly went awry under Fidel's rule. But less is remembered about the amateur na...

LA SORPRENDENTE HISTORIA DEL CHE GUEVARA, FIDEL CASTRO Y EL AGUERRIDO GRUPO DE REBELDES Y MUJERES AVENTURERAS QUE LOS SIGUIERON. La mayoría de la gente está familiarizada con los elementos básicos de la Revolución cubana de 1956 a 1958. Sin embargo, poco se conoce sobre la naturaleza improvisada del boyante movimiento, ni de las vidas de sus protagonistas. En esta entretenida y meticulosa investigación, el historiador y escritor de viajes Tony...

Discover urban legends, arcane knowledge, and little-known facts about world history in this fascinating, addictively readable book sure to please trivia fans everywhere.

Sex and travel have always been intertwined, and never more so than on the classic Grand Tour of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today the Continent is still littered with salacious remnants of that golden age, where secret boudoirs, notorious dungeons, and forbidden artifacts lured travelers all the way from London to Capri. In The Sinner's Grand Tour, celebrated historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet sets off to discov...

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Perrottet approaches the Olympic Games day by day, to recreate for the first time the actual experience of visiting the ultimate sporting extravaganza--from the point of view of the ancient spectators, the beleaguered event organizers in the religious sanctuary of Olympia, and the famous Greek athletes themselves, who competed entirely unadorned in an echo of ancient initiation rites.

This inspired travel narrative, tracing a Mediterranean itinerary modeled on that of the world's first tourists, is also a witty discussion of ancient Roman history and culture, as contrasted to our own.