by Javier Reverte · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497596732
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«Dios, el diablo y la aventura» is the historical and travel chronicle by Javier Reverte, published by Debolsillo in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Javier Reverte reconstructs the life of Pedro Páez, a 16th-century Madrid Jesuit who was the first European to reach the sources of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. A polyglot, man of action, intellectual and architect, he appears framed in the Spain of the Habsburgs, the Portuguese voyages across the Indian Ocean and the remote Africa of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The edition was published in 2003 within Debolsillo's Best Seller collection and is classified in the History category.
For readers of travel literature and modern history interested in Ethiopia and 16th-century Jesuit missions.
Spanish novelist, travel writer and journalist (1944–2020)
