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Monument of Hombre Caimán in Plato, Magdalena.. El Hombre Caimán (The Alligator Man) is an urban legend from the Caribbean coast of Colombia that takes place in the riverside town of Plato: [1] Saúl Montenegro's passion for spying on naked women turned into a being with the head of a man and the body of an alligator.
Juan Valverde de Amusco's Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (Rome, 1560). Juan Valverde de Amusco (or "de Hamusco") (c. 1525-?) was born in the Crown of Castille in what is now Spain c. 1525 and studied medicine in Padua and Rome under Realdo Columbo and Bartolomeo Eustachi. He published several works on anatomy, including De animi ...
José María Arguedas. José María Arguedas Altamirano (18 January 1911 – 2 December 1969) was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist.Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language.
Mytos y leyendas de los Aztecas, Incas, Mayas y Muiscas (Myths and Legends from the Aztecs, Incas, Mayas and Muisca). Fondo de Cultura Económica. México. ISBN 968-16-0581-0. Perez Reguera García, Alejandra (2002). Pérez Reguera M. de E. Alfonso. México, nación de mítos, valores y símbolos (Mexico: Nation of Myths, Values and Symbols ...
Timeless Stories of El Salvador is a series of fairytales and legends by Salvadoran author Federico Navarrete.The first volume was published in 2020 in Łódź, Poland, and the second was published in 2022 in Madrid, Spain.
Leyendas de Guatemala (Legends of Guatemala, 1930) was the first book to be published by Nobel-prizewinning author Miguel Ángel Asturias.The book is a re-telling of Maya origin stories from Asturias's homeland of Guatemala.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (Latin, "On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books") is a set of books on human anatomy written by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) and published in 1543. It was a major advance in the history of anatomy over the long-dominant work of Galen , and presented itself as such.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: 1615 >140 (complete and portions) [12] [13] Early Modern Spanish: 11 Andersen's Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen: 1835–1852: 129 [14] Danish: 12 The Book of Mormon: See Origin of the Book of Mormon: 1830: 115 [15] English: 13 Asterix: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: 1959–present: 115 [16] (not all volumes ...