VaP. will be back this weekend at the Madrid Book Fair. Ricardo Coarasa signed on Sunday morning (the 11:00 a 13:30 hours) copies of his latest book, «Journey to the sources of the Blue Nile. A route through northern Ethiopia », in the doghouse 283, World publisher of Black.
The foreword is written by Javier Reverte, For those who "trip to the sources of the Blue Nile" is "a book that pursues myths on the back of the traveling passion and soaked from love to literature".
«It's a way of narrating, his and other travel writers, -says the master of travel writing- new Spanish literature: History is told, but history is relived in the flesh, It is felt and throbbing in the traveler's steps ». «Any traveler who ventures along the paths of northern Ethiopia should carry this book of Coarasa in the backpack, If you want to understand the territories you travel », adds Reverte.
«Any traveler who ventures along the paths of northern Ethiopia should carry this book of Coarasa in the backpack, If you want to understand the territories you travel », says Reverte
For the author, «Behind the country of famines and droughts hides an exciting and unknown story that decades of wars and misfortunes have not been able to erase. The country of the "burnt faces" for the Greek, the only African state that has not been colonized, able to defeat a European army in the battlefield, the right to try to soar. For the Spanish, also, former Abyssinia is the land of Pedro Paez, watched the first European to Blue Nile Sources, and whom the Scot Bruce usurped that honor proclaiming the discoverer of the same. On the ashes of a forgotten empire, XXI century Ethiopia struggles to find the path to prosperity. Is, certainly, an arduous task, but a nation with such historical foundation has earned an opportunity. This book is, somewhat, an act of love for a great country, an outstanding debt to the friendliness of its people, with past ignored, also, a modest gesture of atonement as a holder against awful. Ethiopia does not deserve that stigma ».
Behind the country of famine and drought lies a fascinating and unknown history that decades of wars and misfortunes could not delete
Ricardo Coarasa, founding partner of VAP, is also the author of «Hernán Cortés. The erased steps » (Mirror of Ink, 2007), the chronicle of the conquest of Mexico following the footsteps of Cortés Aztec territory, and «11-M. The day solidarity stood up to terror » (Free Books, 2004), a report on the coral 24 key times of the Madrid bombings.
