by Ramón J. Sender · Bruguera. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402078735
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«La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre» is the historical novel by Ramón J. Sender, published by Bruguera in hardcover (415 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the expedition of Spanish conquistadors who in the 16th century set out in search of El Dorado. On that journey Lope de Aguirre, ambitious and ruthless, rebels against authority and becomes a tyrant who imposes terror among his men. The work is a critique of the greed and violence of the conquest of America.
Catalogued in History and Literature and Fiction, the work belongs to the Club Bruguera collection, number 69.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the conquest of America and in extreme characters like Lope de Aguirre.
Ramón José Sender Garcés was a Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist. Several of his works were translated into English by the distinguished zoologist, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, including Seven Red Sundays , Mr Witt Among the Rebels and The War in Spain (Contraataque). He published articles in the Valencia-based Orto magazine between 1932 and 1934. During the Spanish Civil War Sender was among the contributors of El Mono Azul, a Republican literary magazine.
