Zorro
by Isabel Allende | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0007201966 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0007201966 Global Overview for this book
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From the back cover:
"The swashbuckling legend of Diego de la Vega - 'El Zorro' - as told by one of the world's greatest storytellers.
Born in California late in the 18th century, Diego de la Bega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe, while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage.
At sixteen, he is sent to Barcelona for a European education. In a country chafing under Napoleonic rule, Diego follows the example of his fencing master and joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. With these tumultuous times as backdrop, he falls in love, saves the persecuted, and confronts for the first time a great rival who emerges from the world of privilege.
Between California and Barcelona, the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born and the legend begins."
"The swashbuckling legend of Diego de la Vega - 'El Zorro' - as told by one of the world's greatest storytellers.
Born in California late in the 18th century, Diego de la Bega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe, while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage.
At sixteen, he is sent to Barcelona for a European education. In a country chafing under Napoleonic rule, Diego follows the example of his fencing master and joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. With these tumultuous times as backdrop, he falls in love, saves the persecuted, and confronts for the first time a great rival who emerges from the world of privilege.
Between California and Barcelona, the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born and the legend begins."
Journal Entry 2 by travelina at OsloS-OBCZ in Oslo Sentrum, Oslo fylke Norway on Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (1/4/2012 UTC) at OsloS-OBCZ in Oslo Sentrum, Oslo fylke Norway
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I will bring this book to the meetup at La Baguette today.
Released in the zone! Thank you! :-)
Journal Entry 4 by mette72 at -- wild release somewhere in Oslo, Oslo fylke Norway on Monday, December 10, 2012
It looks inviting with a great cover, but as I have yet to start reading it I shall send it on its way as not to impede its travel around the world (hopefully)
