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It could seem that we know a city, but when we make small approaches from a specific spot and historical anecdotes, a new world gets opened for us. To look at the city through a lock is to discover that the landscape that we thought we knew is unfolded in greater depth.

Además de chocolate, relojes de cuco y canto tirolés, la Suiza de hoy, un país con cuatro lenguas, ofrece viajes únicos, actividades alpinas y cultura urbana. Los paisajes suizos son colosales y sobrecogedores y proporcionan muchas opciones para practicar deportes durante todo el año. La comida es un festival gastronómico de sustancia y sabor, con queso fundido, chocolate y caza de temporada. Suiza despierta una gran curiosidad e invita a explorarlo.

Xavier Gual is passionate about travel as a way to discover other ways of living and new points of view from which to see himself. These travel essays span Asia, Europe, North Africa, and the Americas and offer a curious, open-minded vision of distant countries. Xavier Gual reúne en este libro una crónica de los viajes que ha hecho por el mundo, las experiencias que ha vivido y la gente que ha encontrado. Hay historias sorprendentes sobre Asia, Europa, el norte de África y América. Se trata, por tanto, de la crónica subjetiva de alguien a quien le apasiona descubrir otras formas de...

The seven beautiful short in this collection concern the lives of an upper-middle-class family in small town Argentina in the 1930s. It is a patriarchal society, bound to fading customs and harsh realities. The Model T has arrived and so too has the Olympic swimmer Jonny Weissmuller, but little of the outside world is know first-hand, instead only as depicted in the French novels they read. The collection is followed by the author's notes on his thoughts about the writing of each story.