Este libro es la relacion de un hecho veridico.
Hardy fue el comandante de un barco britanico el cual se interno por el delta del rio Colorado...de pronto la marea bajo a su minima expresion y la nave de Hardy quedo varada en las dunas de arena...los nativos (presumiblemente Cucapa's) pronto empezaron a acercarce a la embarcacion... este suceso fue veridico y es uno de los pocos casos documentados de contacto entre la cultura de los indigenas Cucapas y europeos.

You can read this book out loud to kids or you can take it to bed with a cup of tea and get lost in the magic of these new almost-fairy tales about lost souls who find their way home. The first story about a man who can understand the language of animals is a take off on the first tale of Arabian Nights. The last story is a funny version on a very old bedtime story we all recognize. In between a miser meets his match, an angel rescues a grieving mother and children save the village, all long, long ago.

Matos is not only one of Mexico's greatest anthropologists but was also graced with the talent of writing. In this book he poetically explains the concepts and mysteries that lay in Mexico's most sacred pyramid. Of the hundreds of complex books written on the great temple- this one puts them all to shame

REVIEW: If you have an interest in Mexica incantations, Mexica medicine, or first hand accounts of the every day life of the Mexica, this editorial team has translated one of the best source books you can find. Written in 1629 by Alcaron as a guide to understanding the Mexica religion and beliefs that were hampering the conversion of the Indians.

Alcaron's goal was to prepare other Catholic Priests by education of the past. Along the way, Alcaron wrote a fascinating collection of various incantations used by the Mexica for such things as blessing a fishing net to curing a broken heart. His attention to Mexica herbal medicine along with generous recent research by the editorial team, has combined to serve as a textbook on the subject.

The book is easily read and the incantations are in Nahuatl as well as paraphrased in English. Some of the more interesting incantations related are: About the Incantation and Spell of Those Who Rig Lime Kilns, About the Incantation or Witchcraft That They Use in Order to Hunt, Beginning with the Hunting of Fowls, About Fortune-telling with the Hands. Further contains a host of incantations for medical purposes including, belly pains, bone fractures, and others simple and complex illnesses.

Appendices attached to this book are full of information relating to place names and linguistic terms that will be of interest to a serious reader. Of interest is the attention to the breakdown of the meaning of the Nahuatl terms to the root level. This work will leave you questioning traditionally accepted terminology and academically accepted myth.

I want to know exactly what kind of plants are growing in my yard; most of them had been selected and planted by a thoughtful gardener who previously owned our home. Jack Carter delivered what he promised in the book's preface; as a non-botanist/ lay person I could work as a self-directed learner and identify many plants using this marvelously illustrated manual.

This book is nicely illustrated, and it has allowed me (even in the winter months) to identify many trees, shrubs, an cacti in my yard and surrounding neighborhood. More identification will have to wait until Spring, when the leaves and flowers come out. This book is a great introduction to botany and I can now go to the nursery with increased confidence, knowing which plants are best suited to growing on my small slice of Sandoval County, New Mexico.

Ruiz uses the most dense prose I have ever encountered. If you have the time and the patience, out of this dense prose emerges a detailed account of Mexican history. Ruiz has gone to great lenghts to obtain personal histories and personality profiles of hundreds of key figures in Mexican history, and uses this information to weave a tale that shows how not only political machinations but personal foibles and ambitions interact to create history. His story encompasses romance, war, and economic figures, and is told with a surprising bit of subtle irony, while striving to maintain an objective view of events. This book is for history buffs who love to read lengthy tomes, but is not meant for Cliff's notes fans.

The amount of depth in such a slim volume is amazing. Clement's language and rhythm put me in mind of a folk tale that draws one in easily but lets go hard. I picked this up because I thought it would be a fast read, and it was, but it's stuck with me and I find myself thinking of it at odd quiet moments. Read it, savor it, but be careful if you read on the subway -- I kept missing my stops.

This book kept haunting me for weeks after I read it. It is a very moving story and the language is pure poetry.

Wow, what a great book. It turns a potentially boring and poorly researched subject into a very nice synthesis of excavation reports and ethnohistorical documents. So little was and is known about Tula and the Toltecs, yet the author manages to make it a very good read. I could not put it down, and read it in a day. Good work in translating tedious archaeological findings reports into readable prose. Good maps, and great photographs. Its this kind of stuff that archaeologists should produce more often so anybody can understand us.

- (Planeta.com Journal) The creative team behind the wonderful book The Road to Mexico return to the border to sketch an intimate portrait of street kids who work and live in the drainage tunnels that connect the cities of Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona. "It is their story of themselves and of the border, and it is our story of them -- of getting to them -- and of the border as it appeared to us through their lives."

The U.S.-Mexico border has proven immune to most forms of modernization. Therefore leaving the rugged Chihuahua/Sonoran desert with literally thousands of scarcely inhabited miles, and it becomes difficult to say which is more colorful, the people or the desert sunsets; And we find the Spanish names have become nearly as beautiful as the photographs. Fortunately, this work is more than just a picture book. It is filled with in depth essays covering everything from chino grass and millipedes, to the last Mexican Wolves - and the people who made the region what it is today. This book is very 'real'. There is no feeling of being in a dream world. The magnificent photos are imaginative, but not exotic. No phony filtering or heavily staged shots. (The surreal beauty stands easily on its own merits, and the photographer obviously understands this.) I give this book a '9' rating because it will not work as a casual [coffee table] book. Any visitor who takes a peek will certainly melt into it, leavin