Candice Millard is the author of three books, all
New York Times bestsellers. Her first book,
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, won the William Rockhill Nelson Award. Millard's second book,
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, the PEN Center USA award for Research Nonfiction, the One Book-One Lincoln Award, the Ohioana Award and the Kansas Notable Book Award. Her most recent book,
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill, was an Indie Next pick, a top ten critics pick by the New York Times and named Amazonxe2x80x99s number one history book of 2016. Millard's work has also appeared in the
New York Times Book Review,
Washington Post Book World, the
Guardian,
National Geographic and
Time magazine. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children.
A lo largo del siglo XIX las potencias europeas comenzaron a lanzar campañas de exploración destinadas a cartografiar los rincones desconocidos del planeta para extender sus imperios coloniales. Por aquel entonces, el interés por el antiguo Egipto era inmenso y, durante siglos, la...
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