South America
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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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Top 10 Rio de Janeiro
$14.99 Read moreFamous around the globe for its riotous Carnaval, Rio de Janeiro offers visitors everything from beautiful beaches and natural wonders, to fine Latin art and spectacular samba shows.
Make the most of- Series: Pocket Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0241624894
- Language: English
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Bolivar: American Liberator
$23.00 Add to cartA brilliant biography that “reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the famous South American ge… [more below]
- Author: Arana, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1439110204
- Language: English
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The Lost Steps
$18.00 Add to cart“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” –Natasha Wimme… [more below]
- Author: Carpentier, Alejo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0143133896
- Language: English
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Brazil – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights―get to know the people.
For many people, Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval, and fine coffee, but it’s much more than beaches and bossa nova. If we had to
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Branco, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1787023397
- 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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The Rough Guide to Chile & Easter Island (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)
$27.99 Add to cartThis practical travel guide to Chile & Easter Island features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track tr
- Series: Rough Guides Main
- Author: Guides, Rough
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1839058560
- Language: English
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Fodor’s Essential Chile
$22.99 Add to cartWhether you want to go hiking in Patagonia, hit the beach in Vi del Mar, or drink your way across the Central Valley wine region, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Chile are here to help! Fodor’s
- Author: Fodor’s Travel Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1640973575
- Language: English
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Lost City Radio
$16.99 Add to cart“Daniel Alarcon writes about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a masterful clarity. By accepting the premise that war is senseless, he goes on to make sense of the lives t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Alarcon, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0060594810
- 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
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
$7.95 Add to cartA powerful and gripping memoir depicting the harsh realities of life in the favelas of Brazil in the 1950s, and one woman’s resilience in the face of poverty, racism, and social inequality.
Living … [more below]- Author: de Jesus, Carolina Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0451529103
- Language: English
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
$20.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR
What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the- Author: Adams, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0452297982
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$40.00 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316703613
- Language: English
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Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
$38.00 Add to cartCândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked h
- Author: Rohter, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: 30-May-23
- ISBN10: 1324021268
- Language: English
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
$17.95 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara’s diary of his
With a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che.- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1644210681
- Language: English
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Wildlife of the Galápagos: Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartThe most comprehensive identification guide to the wildlife of the Gal pagos
Since its first publication more than a decade ago, Wildlife of the Gal pagos has become the definitive, classic field guid- Series: Princeton Pocket Guides #13
- Author: Fitter, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0691170428
- Language: English
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Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home
$17.95 Add to cartThe epic true story of an extreme athlete, a stray dog, and how they found each other–now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Mark Walhberg and Simu Liu.
“A miraculous tale.”–Washington P- Series: Now the Film Arthur the King
- Author: Lindnord, Mikael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 1771644478
- Language: English
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Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey Into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
$19.99 Read more“An old-fashioned jungle adventure, one with rare immediacy and depth of feeling for the people and creatures [Rosolie] encounters.” —Wall Street Journal
For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Am
- Author: Rosolie, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062259520
- Language: English
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait–the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s ha… [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0767913736
- Language: English
