South America
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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The Inca Empire: An Enthralling Overview of the Incas, Their Civilization in Ancient Peru, and the Spanish Conquest
$26.99 Add to cartDid you know that the Incas worshiped the mummies of their emperors?
For the Incas, death didn’t exist; it simply took the dead to a different plane of life. So, the mummies of their emperors were trea
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651446
- Language: English
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Peru – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights–get to know the people.
Peru’s distinctive Spanish and indigenous cultures that first encountered each other five hundred years ago have progressively integrated. However, t… [more below]
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Culture Smart!
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1787022803
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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River Without a Cause: An Expedition Through the Past, Present and Future of Theodore Roosevelt’s River of Doubt
$29.95 Read moreA riveting journey down Theodore Roosevelt’s “river of doubt” with a diverse crew of adventurers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders who shine light on the past, present, and future of a natural wonde… [more below]
- Author: Moses, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365575
- Language: English
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Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan
$19.95 Read moreThe 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent’s journey to Tierra del Fuego.
Rockwell Kent is one of America’s most famous graphic artists. He was also an avid traveler. Kent was espec
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0819564095
- Language: English
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Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica
$31.95 Add to cartPocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica is the first guide to provide comprehensive coverage of every currently known mammal species found in Costa Rica. From the Central American Silky Anteater to
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Reid, Fiona A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766961
- Language: English
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Te Abraza Con Todo Fervor Revolucionario: Epistolario de Un Tiempo 1947-1967
$22.95 Read moreLa primera edición de las cartas del Che Guevara, la mayorÃa nunca antes publicadas en inglés.
“El Che no era solamente un intelectual, era el ser humano más completo de nuestra época.” — Jean- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1925756394
- Language: Spanish
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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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Portuguese for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Learning the Portuguese Language Fast
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to learn the Portuguese language without any previous knowledge, then keep reading…
Are you…
- quite busy and in need of a precise, but thorough, resource to learn Portuguese?
- traveling to
- Author: Abreu, Cezar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1952559553
- Language: English
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Either Catholicism or Liberalism: The Pastoral and Circular Letters of St. Ezequiel Moreno y Diaz
$19.95 Add to cartSt. Ezequiel Moreno-Diaz (1848-1906), bishop of Pasto, Colombia, was at heart a shepherd. This series of writings-published here for the first time in English-is a pastoral theology. Its author addres… [more below]
- Author: Moreno Y. Diaz, St Ezequiel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1990685269
- Language: English
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Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World’s Last Frontier
$29.99 Add to cart“Gripping. … Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia — and how hard it will be to eradicat
- Author: Araujo, Heriberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063024268
- Language: English
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Unforgettable Journeys the Americas
$32.00 Add to cartRegarding unforgettable travel experiences, journeys through the Americas top our bucket list.
Imagine a road trip across the US, cruising along the Amazon, or taking an epic train ride through the C- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0744095123
- 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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Birds of Argentina and the South-West Atlantic
$45.00 Add to cartThe ultimate illustrated field guide to the birds of Argentina and the islands of the South-west Atlantic
Argentina is one of South America’s premier birding destinations, encompassing a range of habi- Series: Princeton Field Guides #128
- Author: Pearman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0691147698
- Language: English
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Riding Toward Everywhere
$18.00 Add to cartArelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Ste
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0061256765
- 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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Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76
$23.00 Read moreA Cold War-era study of Latin American anarchism in action.
Araiza Kokinis’s study of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) broadens our understanding of the Cold War-era political landscape beyond- Author: Araiza Kokinis, Troy Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355002
- Language: English
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Sola: One Woman’s Journey Alone Across South America
$22.00 Add to cartSOLA chronicles the true story of a young woman’s plunge from her pleasant narrow life into a rich foreign continent brimming with Panpipe-playing Zen masters, nighttime motorboat rides redlining thro
- Author: Field, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0996626409
- Language: English
