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Catherine the Great led an army to defeat her husband and guided the Russian Empire with a strong hand. Empress Cixí entered the Forbidden City as a concubine and governed China from behind a silk curtain. The two other women covered in this volume survived reigns marked by fateful intrigue: Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabel, was the first wife of Henry VIII and one of England's most beloved queens; and the unfortunate Charlotte of Belgium, the educated young princess who became Empress of Mexico, slipped into insanity after the assassination of her husband, Maximilian of Austria.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Despots, libertines, coldhearted, harpies, lunatics: These are just some of the terms that have been used to slander these five flesh and blood women who seized power in a male-dominated world, thanks to their intelligence, courage, and strength. 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Gracias a su talento, belleza y personalidad se convirtieron en aut'nticos mitos del siglo XX. Famosas, ricas y atractivas, parec-an perfectas a los ojos del mundo. Pero en realidad estas rutilantes divas fueron personas solitarias, acomplejadas con su f-sico y celosas de su intimidad, que detestaban ser tratadas como estrellas. Estas siete mujeres de leyenda comparten dolorosas heridas que nunca llegaron a cicatrizar: la falta de cario o el abandono de sus padres, las secuelas de la guerra, el dolor por la p'rdida de sus hijos o los traumticos divorcios. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeseo que en este libro el lector descubra las luces y las sombras de unas mujeres rebeldes e inconformistas, que siguen cautivndonos porque demuestran que los cuentos de hadas existen. 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Que no renuncian a algunos caprichos: May Sheldon viaja en un enorme palanqu n de mimbre y con su inseparable ba era de zinc, Gertrude Bell cena en el desierto con su vajilla de porcelana, cristaler a y cuberter a de plata... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Y as , sin importarles el riesgo, se enfrentan a can bales, fieras salvajes y una naturaleza hostil. Algunas se visten de hombre para pasar inadvertidas, aprenden a manejar el fusil, montan a caballo como expertas amazonas o escalan monta as para mantenerse en forma. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cristina Morat  nos cuenta la apasionante vida de muchas de estas mujeres, desde Egeria, la primera viajera, a las misioneras del T bet, las mujeres pirata, la primera Almiranta, las damas del desierto, las pioneras de la aviaci n... 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