by Ramón J. Sender · Bruguera · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402087133
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«La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre» is the historical novel by Ramón J. Sender, published by Bruguera in hardback (415 pages, in Spanish).
In this novel, Ramón J. Sender recreates Lope de Aguirre's expedition along the Amazon in search of El Dorado. Aguirre, ambitious and cruel, rebels against the authority of the King of Spain while the Marañón jungle and the obsession with an impossible dream unleash madness among his men, in an atmosphere recreated with exuberant prose.
La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre is volume 3 of the Club Bruguera collection; it was published in 1982 and includes a dust jacket.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the conquest of America and sixteenth-century explorations.
Ramón José Sender Garcés was a Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist. Several of his works were translated into English by the distinguished zoologist, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, including Seven Red Sundays , Mr Witt Among the Rebels and The War in Spain (Contraataque). He published articles in the Valencia-based Orto magazine between 1932 and 1934. During the Spanish Civil War Sender was among the contributors of El Mono Azul, a Republican literary magazine.
