South America category: 2208 books
by Jeannie Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Machu Picchu is one of the few surviving ruins of the Inca Empire. It is situated in tropical forests on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains. It stretches five miles across a ridge and sits on top of two earthquake fault lines.The Spanish invaded South America looking for gold. They killed the...
The Tribute of Blood
Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive...
by James H. Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century...
The Old Patagonian Express
By Train Through the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along the...
Eight Feet in the Andes
Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Traveller Dervla Murphy and her nine-year-old daughter Rachel, accompanied by an endearing mule named Juana, clambered the length of Peru with only the most basic supplies to sustain them, spending most of their time above 10,000 feet. Their gruelling journey was marked by discomfort and danger, though...
CutlureShock! Argentina
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
CultureShock! Argentina brings you more than a few steps closer to the country, the people and the culture. Most importantly, it is your survival guide to living there. Argentina is more than just footballer Diego Maradona or beautiful Buenos Aires which is often featured in travel brochures and magazines....
by Vivien Lougheed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This guide is based on our full Bolivia Adventure Guide, which is 440 pages. It focuses on the area between the two major spines of the Bolivian Andes, the Western Cordillera and the Cordillera Real. This is a dry plain, the world's largest, called the Altiplano. Starting at Lake Titikaka, the Altiplano...
Last Tango in Buenos Aires
Sketches from the Argentine
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Meet pilgrims and Indians, poets and nuns, teachers, priests, veterans of the war in the South Atlantic, gold diggers, coal miners and ranchers, those bereaved by the Dirty War and apologists for it, and those nostalgic for the time when theirs was one of the world’s richest countries or Evita held...
The Robber of Memories
A River Journey Through Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
“An adventure story and a travel narrative, but also an excursion into memory itself.” —Booklist
When travel writer Michael Jacobs began traversing the Magdalena, a river that courses through the heart of Colombia, he was determined to leave modern conveniences aside—with the exception...
CultureShock! Chile
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
CultureShock! Chile is your one-stop guide to settling in the country and adapting to life in a new land. Learn from the authors’ experience as they share insights into the Chilean work etiquette, navigating the class system, setting up home and using the estufa and califont as well as what generally...
CultureShock! Bolivia
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
CultureShock! Bolivia provides readers with a thorough understanding of this South American country, a nation steeped in history, culture, and tradition. Containing pages of useful information, advice, tips and resources, this book will guide you through the social and psychic adjustment necessary when...
Cholas in Bowlers
Journey to Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
With two grown-up sons, a satisfying job as a journalist, great friends and plenty of interests, life for Jane Mundy was humming along nicely when, out of the blue and in the most unlikely of places, she met Graham. In no time at all she had abandoned her comfortable life and run away with him to...
by Becky Coffield
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
A rollicking, award-winning travel memoir that details a hilarious six years aboard the sloop, Cabaret, as the author manages to stay afloat for 25,000 miles of fun and adventure from Alaska to the South Pacific. A terrific read for sailors or those who love adventure stories and sea yarns. If you're planning to go to sea, this book is a MUST! Audacious and bold!
Shaky Colonialism
The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates...