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Junkie Buddha
A Journey of Discovery in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This is the story of one woman’s journey from her son’s revelation that he had been sexually abused in childhood through to the scattering of his ashes at Machu Picchu in Peru. Sacha had died of a heroin overdose. A journal Diane kept while traveling around Peru and her experiences, encounters...
by Hywel Teague
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Have you ever wanted to visit Rio to train BJJ? You're not alone! Many people from around the world have the desire to train BJJ in Brazil, but outdated misconceptions exist about the city and what you’ll find here.
"It's dangerous! You'll get robbed or kidnapped or worse! The black...
by Lonely Planet, Brendan Sainsbury, Carolyn McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
#1 best-selling guide to Cuba*
Lonely Planet Cubais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk through Havana's cobbled streets and evoke the ghosts of mega-rich sugar barons and sabre-rattling buccaneers; stay...
by Erica Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Havana, Cuba. Havana is the capital city of Cuba, and one of the fourteen provinces of the Republic of Cuba. Before the Communist revolution, Havana was one of the vacation hotspots of the Caribbean, and since Cuba reopened to tourism in the 1990s, it...
by Erica Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Varadero, Cuba.
by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Colombia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander through the bougainvillea-lined streets and magnificent squares of Cartagena’s...
by Robert Andrews, Jim Beane, Ruben Castaneda
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Brand new stories by: George Pelecanos, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Jabari Asim, Ruben Castaneda, James Patton, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Richard Currey, Lester Irby, and others.
Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories...
The Condor Years
How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A “compelling and shocking account” of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents (The Miami Herald).
Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry...
Hostage Nation
Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle.
On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid...
by Graham Colbeck
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
On Friday, April 9, 1982, a British task force set sail for the Falkland Islands. Three months later, after a short but brutal campaign, it had successfully completed its mission of ejecting the Argentinean occupying forces from the islands.
With 3 Para to the Falklands is the full story of...
There Are No Dead Here
A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters--a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator--whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.
Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did...
Beyond Bogotá
Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia, uncovering the unofficial stories of people living in conflict zones. Beyond Bogotá is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive by the FARC, Colombia's...
Chilean Voices
activists describe their experiences of the popular unity period
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Each interview focuses on the field in which the speaker was most active. The number of interviews in each field reflects its relative importance: three for industry, two for the country side and one each for the shantytowns and the universities. In the case of industry, anything less could scarcely...
The Silence and the Scorpion
The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
The definitive account of the 2002 Venezuelan coup, offering a deeply reported look at the roots of the current crisis.
On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of Hugo Chávez. The opposition represented a cross-section of...