South America category: 2208 books

Bradt's Paraguay was the first stand-alone guide to Paraguay published outside of Paraguay itself and still remains the most comprehensive guide available, covering the whole country from the best-known sights to off-the-beaten track attractions well beyond the tourist trail, plus a cross-border excursion...

Covering the sixth largest avifauna in the world, this important new guide is essential for anyone exploring the diverse habitats of this beautiful South American country. Birds of Venezuela - complete with authoritative text and superb colour plates - will ensure that this top birding destination...

One of the best adventure destinations in the world is Machu Picchu. But it's also one of the most visited places with close to 500,000 visitors annually, so the Peruvian government has just added more tourism regulations to protect it. Find out everything you need to know about visiting this UNESCO...

Easter Island, isolated deep in the South Pacific and now a World Heritage Site, was home to a fascinating prehistoric culture--one that produced massive stone effigies (the moai) and the birdman cult--and yet much of the island's past remains shrouded in mystery. Where did the islanders come from,...

For roughly two decades after the collapse of the military regime in 1983, testimonial narrative was viewed and received as a privileged genre in Argentina. Today, however, academics and public intellectuals are experiencing "memory fatigue," a backlash against the concepts of memory and trauma, just...

It is a big leap to make travel plans to Peru.  Despite what it appears to be in size on the entire South American map, Peru is a big country!  Travelling from one destination to the next requires planning, sometimes at least a couple months in advance.  When you arrive, making your way from one...

Welcome to Argentina!  If you have planned a trip here and had any idea of what you might to see and do, you might have figured it out pretty quickly that Argentina is a really big country!  From North to South, from the Andes on the west to the coast on its east, Argentina is a beautiful and awe...

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Colombia has finally shed its former reputation and is now fulfilling its potential as one of the world's most interesting and unique travel destinations. Safer than ever, Colombia is home to whitewashed colonial towns, a staggeringly large amount of bio-diversity,...

Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe, and Japan to describe how Peruvians remit...

Excavations over many years in the Peruvian Andes and coastal regions have revealed that the village settlements on the west coast of South America were one of the early centers of world civilization. One of these settlements, La Galgada, flourished from 3000 B.C. to 1700 B.C. Its extraordinarily complete...

This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.

On his first trip to Chile, Derek Paterson fell instantly in love with the people and the country. On was ready to leave when the b;oozy coup of 11 September 1973 slammed the borders closed. Three days later he was thrown into a police cell and then taken to the infamous, notorious National Stadium...

DESCRIPTION A dizzying, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman concludes that...

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related...