Raíces,
Subtitle: The English  Version
By: by Luis A. Moscoso Vega.
Contributors: Luis Edgar Moscoso and Elias A. Padilla
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing Co
Published: 2006
Place of publication: BookSure LLC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Genres: Novel
Work titles: Translation of a Novel
First sentence: It was three in the morning and the rain continued to fall, stuborn and fierce.
Description: Daniel is a farmer in the Ecuadorian Andes who loves his land and the woman he just married,
her misterious ancestry and the blindness she sufers, plus the danger of losing his land dew to Agrarian Reforms imposed by the Government, inspires him to prevail under dificult cirumstances.
Notes: The novel includes real historic facts about the French Geodesic Mission that visited Ecuador in the XVIII century in order to mesure part of the world's 79th meridan an determine the shape of the earth.