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This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired the British novelist’s “masterpiece,” The Power and the Glory (John Updike). In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in...

Just across the Rio Grande from West Texas in the state of Coahuila, México, the mountain ranges of the Maderas del Carmen rise majestically. Often called magical or mystical, they have stirred imagination for centuries. Stories of bandits, Indians, ghosts, incredible flora and fauna, cool forests,...

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Roatán.

Gringo charts two journeys, both of which began a decade ago. The first is the sweeping transformation of Latin American politics that started with Hugo Chávez's inauguration as president of Venezuela in 1999. In that same year, an eighteen-year-old Chesa Boudin leaves his middle-class Chicago life...

Over het slavernijverleden van Nederland wordt volop en breed discussie gevoerd. Aan meningen geen gebrek, en terecht, want dat de slavernij een zwarte bladzij in onze geschiedenis vormt, zal niemand ontkennen. Maar hoe zag die bladzij er precies uit? Wat zijn de historische feiten? Daarvoor zou men...

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Bob Marley, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: • Comprender los motivos que llevan a Bob Marley, un joven salido de los guetos más pobres...

Dina Bennett’s on the road again—and she can’t stop! Having completed the 7,800-mile Peking to Paris Classic Car Challenge while braving carsickness and patching rocky marital relations, she’s once more in over her head, enduring 100,000 miles of road trips through the world’s out-of-the-way...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Trinidad and Tobago, a nation consisting primarily of two Caribbean islands just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. The country is the most industrialised and one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean.  The islands are replete with natural...

Our 160 page illustrated travel guide will help you to plan an exciting trip to Puerto Rico. A perfect location for a cultural or beach vacation holiday due to its location in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British...

This new and extended guide will answer you all the questions before relocating to Nicaragua, it will let you discover the country of “La Libertad" at your own pace before you even get there. This guide will help you: Get all the essential up-to-date trends, personal stories from expatriates,...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Bob Marley en moins d'une heure ! Personnalité incontournable de la culture populaire, Bob Marley a connu un succès à l'échelle mondiale, autant pour sa carrière musicale que pour ses combats idéologiques. Au-delà de ses textes qui prônent...

What's the Caribbean vacation of your dreams? With more than 7,000 islands to choose from, it's not always an easy decision. The good news is that -- short of skiing or ice skating -- the islands of the Caribbean offer something for everyone.   It's hard to beat the Bahamas for...

‘To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.’ For H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was...

These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature. Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity,...