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Bolivar
- American Liberator
- Narrateur(s): David Crommett
- Durée: 20 h et 11 min
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Description
It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic, straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and never remarried (although he did have a succession of mistresses, including one who held up the revolution and another who saved his life), and he died relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would endure.
Drawing on a wealth of primary documents, novelist and journalist Marie Arana brilliantly captures early 19th-century South America and the explosive tensions that helped revolutionize Bolívar. In 1813 he launched a campaign for the independence of Colombia and Venezuela, commencing a dazzling career that would take him across the rugged terrain of South America, from Amazon jungles to the Andes mountains. From his battlefield victories to his ill-fated marriage and legendary love affairs, Bolívar emerges as a man of many facets: fearless general, brilliant strategist, consummate diplomat, passionate abolitionist, gifted writer, and flawed politician.
A major work of history, Bolívar colorfully portrays a dramatic life even as it explains the rivalries and complications that bedeviled Bolívar’s tragic last days. It is also a stirring declaration of what it means to be a South American.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- heptaskelion
- 2020-01-07
An admirable biography
I was looking for a telling if the story of this monumentally influential man who is too little talked about in north america. I found this work to be just what I was searching for, and a launching point for further exploration of latin american history.
Well performed as well, with good pronunciation of the spanish.
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- Michael Ringland
- 2021-05-29
Excellent Narrator, Fascinating Subject
Wow. What a beast of a man. I was only vaguely familliar with this dude and after finishing this I can't believe we don't ever hear about him in north america. Narrator was spot on, too.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2024-04-24
Enjoyable biography
Good overall. The author has a very favourable opinion of Bolivar and this book is a definitely not a critical look at his character and actions, however I do not think this greatly impacted the retelling of the events of his life. The unclear use of quotations, dialogue, etc when these exchanges probably did not happen is a pet-peeve of mine and I felt sometimes the book almost took the tone of a soap opera. Still, the book is comprehensive, ambitious, and does the man and era justice despite some shortcomings.
On the audio performance - the reader's probably very good Spanish pronunciation of names and places sometimes made it difficult for me as an English speaker to understand who or where was being discussed and I often had to research on my phone to match a described event to a person or place to the audio for context.
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