South America
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
$19.99 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux’s train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp obser… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 07 1989
- ISBN10: 039552105X
- 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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Birds of South America: Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers
$29.95 Read moreA stunningly illustrated field guide to non-passerine birds of South America
Here in an easy-to-use format is an essential guide to the nearly 1,300 species of non-passerine South American birds. It c- Series: Princeton Illustrated Checklists
- Author: Erize, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0691126887
- 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
$24.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0063024276
- Language: English
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Argentina – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights―get to know the people.
The second-largest country in South America, Argentina has been through great changes in recent years. Its journey from dictatorship to democrac
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Godward, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1787023362
- Language: English
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Insight Guides Peru (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)
$25.99 Read moreThis Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Peru and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination’s history a
- Series: Insight Guides
- Author: Insight Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 183905655X
- 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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People of the Ucayali: The Shipibo and Conibo of Peru
$31.95 Add to cartThis book describes the cultures of two closely related language groups in the Peruvian Amazon: the Shipibo and Conibo. It shares personal observations of their subsistence and economic, social, and p
- Series: Publication / International Museum of Cultures
- Author: Eakin, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: February 28 1986
- ISBN10: 0883121638
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$16.00 Add to cartBartolom? de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus’s voyages, Las Casas was so horrified… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Las Casas, Bartolom? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445625
- Language: English
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Angels with Dirty Faces: How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever
$21.99 Add to cartThe Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer
Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di St’fano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Perhaps it’s- Author: Wilson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585519
- Language: English
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Jeff and Alan’s Guide To Motorcycle Travel In Colombia
$27.99 Add to cartEverything you need to know about motorcycle travel in Colombia all in one place
If you’ve been wanting to go on an adventurous, exciting motorcycle trip but had some doubts, just read this guide and
- Author: Cremer, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: January 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0578847698
- Language: English
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On Argentina
$18.00 Add to cartA literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer
Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion i- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105736
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Fast Talk Latin American Spanish
$7.99 Add to cartAlthough you can get by in Latin America without speaking the language, knowing just a few essential phrases can help you make friends, enjoy service with a smile, and discover richer, more rewarding
- Series: Phrasebook
- Author: Planet, Lonely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1787015610
- Language: English
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Living to Tell the Tale: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartNo writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel Garc a M rquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: García Márquez, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 140003454X
- Language: English
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cart“A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language.”–Entertainment Weekly
The revered New York Times bestselling author of Ho
- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0063021722
- Language: English
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Lost City of the Incas
$19.99 Read moreFirst published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.
In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to- Series: Phoenix Press
- Author: Bingham, Hiram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 03 2003
- ISBN10: 1842125850
- Language: English
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The Puma Years: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartIn this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life.
Laura wa
- Author: Coleman, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1542022185
- 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 Apprentice Tourist
$17.00 Add to cartA Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the Amazon
A Penguin Classic “My life’s done a somersault,” wrote- Author: de Andrade, M?rio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137352
- Language: English
