Latin America - South America
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
$20.99 Add to cart“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charle… [more below]
- Author: MacQuarrie, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1439168903
- Language: English
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The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartExcessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina-in all its complexity-has often been obscured by variations o… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Nouzeilles, Gabriela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: December 25 2002
- ISBN10: 082232914X
- Language: English
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Samba
$20.00 Add to cartTo the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain–a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diam… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Guillermoprieto, Alma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 1991
- ISBN10: 067973256X
- Language: English
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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
$29.99 Add to cartNo gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus’s ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 – an event that paved the way for the conquest of a ‘New World’. The accounts … [more below]
- Author: Columbus, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1607966182
- Language: English
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The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War
$39.95 Add to cartThe Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central q… [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640121528
- Language: English
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Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$21.95 Add to cartSet in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.
Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, fro
- Author: Delgado-Kling, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1682194477
- Language: English
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Brazil: A Biography
$30.99 Add to cartA sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extrao- Author: Schwarcz, Lilia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538484
- Language: English
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
$21.99 Read moreFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon
In 1927, Henry Ford, the- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429622
- Language: English
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The Conquest of New Spain
$19.00 Add to cartVivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma’s doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes … [more below]
- Series: Classics S
- Author: D?az del Castillo, Bernal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 30 1963
- ISBN10: 0140441239
- Language: English
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The Little School
$18.95 Add to cartOne of Argentina’s 30,000 “disappeared”, Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were… [more below]
- Author: Partnoy, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 1998
- ISBN10: 1573440299
- Language: English
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The Last Days of the Incas
$22.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vil… [more below]
- Author: MacQuarrie, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0743260503
- Language: English
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I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship, 1975
$27.00 Add to cartIn September 1973 a CIA-assisted coup overthrew the democratically-elected president of Chile, ushering in the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, a recent graduate and lay volunteer fr
- Author: Osberger, Kathleen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985472
- Language: English
