Héctor Oliva, a lecturer who teaches the Political Institutions subject in the Faculty of Communication Sciences, recently published a book entitled "¿Hay dioses en el Olimpo? Ascensión a las cumbres míticas de la Antigüedad", edited by Librooks.
The presentation took place at the Catalan Centre for Excursions on 2 February at 7:30, along with journalist Enric Calpena.
The book brings together ancient history, travel literature and mountain literature.
Héctor Oliva
(Terrassa, 1970) is a journalist and tour guide. A passionate self-taught geographer and historian, he is the author of Pasajes a América (winner of the Eurostars award), Veinte historias de la Barcelona americana y una pregunta descarada and a mountaineering book entitled 17 Cimas, also published by Librooks. He is also the author of a novel called Noroeste, about Spanish participation in the search for the Northeast Passage. He spent three years on this project, because “it was not only about climbing up the mountains, which is the most existential part, but also about searching for the past and doing research about hypotheses, legends and realities, and this takes time if you want to do so rigorously”, although it might be just a few fun pinches of rigour.
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