{"id":3139273,"date":"2026-09-01T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/book\/cuaquero-ballenero-traidor-espia-las-pruebas-de-william-rotch\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:50:32","slug":"cuaquero-ballenero-traidor-espia-las-pruebas-de-william-rotch","status":"publish","type":"fpb_book","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/book\/cuaquero-ballenero-traidor-espia-las-pruebas-de-william-rotch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Cu\u00e1quero, ballenero, traidor, esp\u00eda!: Las pruebas de William Rotch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em>Por Sarah Crabtree, ilustrado por Melissa Philley. Penn State University Press, 2026. 120 p\u00e1ginas. $79,99\/tapa dura; $24,99\/r\u00fastica; $19,99\/libro electr\u00f3nico.   <\/em><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La historiadora Sarah Crabtree public\u00f3 en 2015 un libro en el que exploraba c\u00f3mo los misioneros cu\u00e1queros viajaban desde Europa a trav\u00e9s del Atl\u00e1ntico por rutas comerciales para difundir y adaptar su fe. Rese\u00f1\u00e9 su <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/book\/nacion-sagrada-el-ministerio-cuaquero-transatlantico-en-una-era-de-revolucion\/\"><em>Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution<\/em><\/a> (en <em>FJ<\/em>, sept. de 2016), y me pareci\u00f3 una obra acad\u00e9mica cuidadosamente investigada y bien escrita. Estoy acostumbrado a historias voluminosas, y <em>Holy Nation<\/em>, con 304 p\u00e1ginas, cumpl\u00eda perfectamente. As\u00ed que no ten\u00eda claro qu\u00e9 pensar de su \u00faltima obra cuando me sent\u00e9 a leer una historia gr\u00e1fica (apenas 91 p\u00e1ginas de relato) sobre la vida del ballenero cu\u00e1quero William Rotch.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!<\/em> es excelente. Crabtree podr\u00eda haber prestado un servicio simplemente convirtiendo las memorias olvidadas de Rotch en una historia gr\u00e1fica de ritmo \u00e1gil (con un gran arte de Melissa Philley). Lo hace, pero luego a\u00f1ade mucho m\u00e1s, incluido el hecho de insertarse a s\u00ed misma como personaje ilustrado para dirigirse directamente a su p\u00fablico: \u00abEsta es una historia sobre c\u00f3mo me equivoqu\u00e9\u00bb, empieza. La historia puede verse desde muchas perspectivas, y muchas pueden ser correctas al mismo tiempo. Mientras Crabtree busca la verdad sobre Rotch, aprende lo escurridiza que puede ser la \u00abhistoria real\u00bb.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me cuesta contar demasiado de la historia, porque eso revelar\u00eda el ingenioso formato del libro. Con giros y vueltas, el libro plantea preguntas fundamentales sobre la naturaleza de la historia, la motivaci\u00f3n de los primeros cu\u00e1queros y c\u00f3mo puede existir m\u00e1s de una verdad simult\u00e1neamente. Muchos testimonios cu\u00e1queros \u2014de George Fox, Thomas Ellwood y muchos otros\u2014 pueden ser inspiradores, pero \u00bfqu\u00e9 ocurri\u00f3 realmente? \u00bfHasta qu\u00e9 punto la gente disimula sus intereses econ\u00f3micos o su propia motivaci\u00f3n con la p\u00e1tina de la religiosidad? \u00bfY si las motivaciones de una persona son a la vez interesadas y religiosas? Crabtree explora estos temas de una manera inteligente, esforz\u00e1ndose por no ser sentenciosa ni did\u00e1ctica.     <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El libro se apoya en hechos y cita extensamente fuentes primarias cuando es posible (todas enumeradas en las notas finales), aunque Crabtree deja claro que sus muchos a\u00f1os en archivos encontraron l\u00edmites: hay mucho que nunca sabr\u00e1 sobre Rotch y sus batallas con distintos gobiernos. En sus propias memorias, Rotch present\u00f3 su historia de vida como la de un cu\u00e1quero acosado pero fiel, que sufr\u00eda por sus creencias a manos de bur\u00f3cratas vengativos y turbas ignorantes. En un momento dado, ella cita las memorias de Rotch, donde dice que los funcionarios estaban \u00abjugando con nuestras vidas como con una pelota de tenis\u00bb.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pero, como deja claro Crabtree, hay mucho m\u00e1s en la historia. De verdad que no puedo entrar en m\u00e1s detalles: ser\u00eda revelar demasiado. Pero lee esta historia gr\u00e1fica ingeniosa y muy bien documentada.  <\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cameron McWhirter es periodista. Es coautor de <\/strong> <strong><em>American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15<\/em><\/strong> <strong>y autor de<\/strong> <strong><em>Red Summer: The Summer of 1919<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>and the Awakening of Black America.<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Es miembro de la Junta de Atlanta (Ga.). Ha formado parte del Consejo de Administraci\u00f3n de Friends Publishing Corporation, editorial de <\/strong> <strong><em>Friends Journal<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5090,"featured_media":3139202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[25337],"fpb_issue_category":[25335],"class_list":["post-3139273","fpb_book","type-fpb_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libros-de-septiembre-de-2026","fpb_issue_category-el-pacifismo-y-el-testimonio-de-la-paz-hoy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00a1Cu\u00e1quero, ballenero, traidor, esp\u00eda!: Las pruebas de William Rotch - Friends Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/book\/cuaquero-ballenero-traidor-espia-las-pruebas-de-william-rotch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RESE\u00d1ADO: \u00a1Cu\u00e1quero, ballenero, traidor, esp\u00eda!: Las pruebas de William Rotch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Por Sarah Crabtree, ilustrado por Melissa Philley. 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