by Washington Irving · Miraguano Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478132096
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«Los buscadores de tesoros» is the adventure novel by Washington Irving, published by Miraguano Ediciones in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
The book follows pirates and renegades living their last days of glory, while legends of buried treasures on beaches and in woods grow. The unwary who try to dig them up suffer all kinds of misfortunes, with ghosts, delusions and nightmares, in a plea against greed and the pursuit of easy wealth.
The book belongs to the collection «La cuna de Ulises» (no. 31). The translation is by José J. Fuente del Pilar and Ulises Fuente Arteaga.
For readers of classic fiction and adventure, especially those who enjoy the tales of Washington Irving.
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
