Reseña del libro "Exploraciones Secretas En África"
Secret Explorations in Africa completes the previous title of this collection, secret explorations in Asia, and tells us in this case the travel of those explorers, many of them women, who decided, for various reasons, into those parts of Africa in which the western entrance was forbidden. We moved the epic of these adventurers who risked being executed and adopting different personalities, disguised or as slaves, entered Morocco in Timbuktu, in the Sahara or in the most troubled countries in sub -Saharan Africa. Fernando Ballano make a new exercise clarity and precision in this work and will take us in space and time to discover the different Spanish spies -Badía, Gatell or Cervera, for example, who dared to perform espionage in Morocco; will attend the executions of Westerners who tried to enter Timbuktu, we will know the prize that geographical societies of Paris and London promised the first to enter the city and how Caillié came disguised but no one believed him until decades later Barth confirmed everything that the French had said; as the Sahara was always traveled incognito by the French Vieuchange who visited the holy city of Smara dress or Rosita Forbes woman who crossed the Libyan desert Arab dress wife; the different scans sub-Saharan Africa also shed unusual data and amazing stories. A book that illustrates the tenacity of the human being to know and dominate other human beings and cunning of those who did not surrender even when entering the places prohibited seemed impossible, even when her life really was in danger. Fernando Ballano Gonzalo (Utrilla, Soria, 1956). Degree in Psychology and Master in Contemporary History. He is a professor of Secondary Education. In his youth he worked in several European countries (Sweden, Norway, Britain and France). Later he was bilingual teacher in the Bronx in New York, cooperating in Burundi and Tanzania and Mali guide. He has prepared and drafted several travel guides editorially Laertes: Rumbo to Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi (1994), Road to Zanzibar (2002) and Heading to Poland (1999 and 2006). In the field ofeducation he has published several textbooks with publishing Editex. He collaborates with various media (El País, History 16, Legacy Andalusí, Goodbye, History of Iberia Vieja, The Adventure of History) with articles and reports travel and history.
