viernes, 23 de abril de 2010

The Shattering Book 15

Thrall, the wise shaman and the war chief of the Horde, has sensed a disturbing change...


Long ago, Azeroth's destructive native elementals raged across the world until the benevolent titans imprisoned them within the Elemental Plane. Despite the titans' intervention, many elementals have ended up back on Azeroth. Over the ages, shaman-like Thrall has communed with these spirits and, through patience and dedication, learned to soothe roaring infernos, bring rain to sun-scorched lands, and otherwise temper the elementals' ruinous influence on the world of Azeroth.


Now Thrall has discovered that the elementals no longer heed the shaman's call. The link shared with these spirits has grown thin and frayed as if Azeroth itself were under great duress. While Thrall seeks answers to what ails the confused elements, he also wrestles with the orcs' precarious future as his people face dwindling supplies and growing hostility with their night elf neighbors.


Meanwhile, Varian Wrynn of Stormwind is considering violent action in response to mounting tensions between the Alliance and the Horde, a hard-line approach that threatens to alienate those closest to him, including his son, Anduin. The conflicted young prince has set out to find his own path, but in doing so, he risks becoming entangled in political instability that is setting the world on edge.


The fate of Azeroth's great races is shrouded in a fog of uncertainty, and the erratic behavior of the elemental spirits, troubling though it is, may only be the first ominous warning sign of the cataclysm to come.

martes, 6 de abril de 2010

The Mighty Orinoco- Jules Verne

Original title: Le Superbe Orénoque.

It all begins when the library of the University of Ciudad Bolivar three geographers called: Michael, Felipe and Varinas, decide to end the discussion on the path of the Orinoco, and decide to search for the birth Orinoco, to the exploration join the Sergeant Martial and his nephew Jean De Kermo, search for the father of Jean, who fourteen years before self-exile from France to Venezuela, for personal reasons.

Later they were joined by two French and one botanical other Hunter, Jacques Helloch, Germain Paterne respectively who fulfilled a request from the French Minister of Public Instruction. For Orinoco wildlife explore.

These trace the Orinoco in a skinny because a ship can not pass, there is little depth in the course from San Fernando de Apure, the adventure is present throughout all history:

First against the adversities of climate, the river, animals and all kinds of insects.

Second diseases tiredness or boredom.

Third, the repeated attacks of the Indians called quivas, coming from Colombia, and are led by Alfaniz, how escapee from prison in Caracas, a bloody ruthless and cruel. Which it maintains a major offensive to members of the expedition, as well as with the missionary named Father Esperante living in the sources of the Orinoco.

Plus other surprises that history is revealed to us.