Un relato biografico vibrante que captura la epica historia de Simon Bolivar, El Libertador.

Simon Bolivar se gano el sobrenombre de El Libertador tras poner fin al dominio espanol sobre seis paises. Su vida fue heroica, tragica y legendaria: viajo del Amazonas a los Andes, libro eternas batallas, forjo alianzas entre razas rivales…

Partiendo de un gran abanico de fuentes, Marie Arana captura un vivido retrato de la Suramerica de inicios del siglo XIX, la que forjo a Bolivar y lo convirtio en un valeroso general, un estratega brillante, un escritor portentoso y un politico sin parangon; en definitiva, uno de los personajes mas admirados de Latinoamerica. Bolivar es una biografia trepidante en la que el lector hallara la imagen de una vida tragica capturada en todo su esplendor y un conmovedor manifiesto de la verdadera esencia del pueblo latinoamericano.

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A sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic, this is the authoritative biography of the warrior-statesman who was the greatest figure in Latin American history.

It is astonishing that Simon Bolivar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic, straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and never remarried (although he did have a succession of mistresses, including one who held up the revolution and another who saved his life), and he died relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would endure.

Drawing on a wealth of primary documents, novelist and journalist Marie Arana brilliantly captures early nineteenth-century South America and the explosive tensions that helped revolutionize Bolivar. In 1813 he launched a campaign for the independence of Colombia and Venezuela, commencing a dazzling career that would take him across the rugged terrain of South America, from Amazon jungles to the Andes mountains. From his battlefield victories to his ill-fated marriage and legendary love affairs, Bolivar emerges as a man of many facets: fearless general, brilliant strategist, consummate diplomat, passionate abolitionist, gifted writer, and flawed politician. A major work of history, Bolivar colorfully portrays a dramatic life even as it explains the rivalries and complications that bedeviled Bolivar’s tragic last days. It is also a stirring declaration of what it means to be a South American.