Like every edition, We have prepared various “book signing” sessions so that you can meet those who are behind the words and take copies with personalized signatures and dedications.
Take advantage of the 10% discount on all books purchased at the Fair.
We are waiting for you at booths 278-279.
Site Carcavilla He summarizes his book as “What we live while we try to climb a mountain”, a text full of humility, greatness, humor, humanity, and a lot of mountains. Chronicles of the Himalayas, stories from a base camp It is very mountaineering in which things are told that are not usually talked about.
After 16 years of expeditions to the Himalayas and Karakoram, many of them as part of Carlos Soria’s team, it can be said that Sito has a lot to tell about life in a base camp. On expeditions there is a lot of downtime and people entertain themselves as best they can. Sito does it by writing what he sees, what happens and what he thinks. On the pages of Himalayan Chronicles He becomes a chronicler of what he is experiencing in the first person, giving us a fun, reflective and critical account of what the backroom of a base camp entails, all that which is not talked about and which is part of the expeditions.
Don’t miss spending some time with Sito, talking about his book or anything else… As a mountaineer, since 2007 he has participated in 13 expeditions to the Himalayas and Karakoram, almost always to mountains over eight thousand meters high, being part of the mountaineer Carlos Soria’s team. During the course of these expeditions he has taken advantage of the opportunities offered by meteorology to make geological observations and photographs that have been published in various media.
Adrian Escudero In his book, he offers us a wonderful chronicle from the perspective of an ecologist who runs in different places in our country. Tell about places, territories, and the sensations he had on each of those occasions. How to run looking at the landscape and understanding it to perhaps love it even more and understand the urgency of taking care of it.
Adrián is a professor in ecology. His scientific work on biodiversity and the impacts produced by human activity is highly recognized, and he makes research compatible with his other passion: the mountains in all its facets. Working on Global Change and the climate emergency, he cannot stop trying to explain and disseminate in different media how extremely serious what we are experiencing and how we can confront this drama. global running talks about all this trying to respond in a close and somewhat nostalgic way to the question: Why are the mountains we run through the way they are?
Chronicles that go from the Picos de Europa to the Sierra de las Nieves, and want to be a portrait of what remains in our landscapes, from the experience of an ecologist who runs in iconic places in our mountains. A sneaker guide to interpret Global Change and the scourge of its most merciless drivers: warming and demographic abandonment.
Carlos Beltrton is the creator of one of the Desnivel books that we never tire of mentioning, perhapsto because it represents the dreamñor crazy about a few women, since that review of the history of sports focusing on invisible female achievements.
Through a selection of episodes from the 19th and 20th centuries, Banned but not expired, With an informal and fun style, it reveals how different precursors from a good part of the world, being mythical and pioneers in their time, carefully hidden at first and later forgotten, influenced the massive practice of sport among women. A splendid, entertaining and necessary book. For adventurers.
Banned but not expired It puts flesh, skin, on ideas and concepts that were on paper. Creating a new narrative, based on anecdotes and stories that change the story they told us. Most of the women who appear in Banned but not expired They became known through sport and thanks to that they were able to influence their environment. Others, fewer, were relevant women of their times who found unusual support in sport.
Among its pages are surprising, unknown names, of a few who did not conform and broke, in a low manner, almost without society noticing, a lot of established concepts.
Carlos Beltrán has been a media professional since 1992, the Olympic year. Based on his participation as host and scriptwriter of the program sport school of TVE specialized in sports promotion, and has developed his career in programs such as The Olympic dream, fun sport, All Snow either Podiumand directed documentaries such as The Golden Girls. He has also collaborated on radio programs, such as Only one time, from RNE, with a section on the pioneers of the sport. She regularly writes about Critical Thinking and Education. She has collaborated on several sports history books and stories, and other sports-themed publications. Banned but not expired It is the development of twenty-two years of satisfied curiosity.
Miguel Calvo will be signing his book Return to Marathon, with a luxury partner: Jesús España, who was European champion of 5,000 meters and was an Olympian in Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016. Currently, he is an athletics collaborator on TVE, where these days he will commentate on the European Athletics Championships in Rome and in August the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. A great example of respect for Olympic values, he is listed as the third best runner in the history of the championships in 5,000 meters, the test on which he focused his sporting career before moving to the marathon.
A luxury companion for Miguel and his Return to Marathona book that is an invitation to the adventure of discovering the origin of the myth of the most legendary race in modern sport, as well as a journey through Greece in search of the spirit that beats behind long-distance races, not only from the perspective of its author but from the voices of some of the most emblematic runners in the world.
The great merit of this book is that it is very rich as it is a mixture of travel text, historical narrative and testimony. Among our essentials.
«I am very excited to participate in the Madrid Book Fair, especially this year, which has as its central theme the relationship between literature and sport and on the eve of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Precisely, Return to Marathon It is also an invitation to use sport as a metaphor for life, as the Fair proposes, and it will also be an honor for me to be accompanied by Jesús España, one of the Spanish athletes who best symbolize authentic Olympic values.
Miguel Calvo
- Where: booths 278-279 of the Retiro Park in Madrid.
- Book Fair Dates: from May 31 to June 16.
- Schedule: Monday to Thursday: from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Friday to Sunday: from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
