South America category: 2208 books
Bolivar
American Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic,...
Revolution!
South America and the Rise of the New Left
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to Evo Morales, the indigenous head of state of Bolivia, and Michelle Bachelet, the first woman president in Chile,...
Darwin Slept Here
Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
**This entertaining combination of history, biography, and travel adventure is “a bracingly fresh portrait [of] Darwin . . . Nothing less than exhilarating” (Michael Pollan, New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma).
One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, Eric Simons...
by Mark Salvatore
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Imagine a remote community in Paraguay, South America, where you read by candle light, draw your water from a well, cook your meals on an open fire and attend to your needs in a rickety outhouse. To reach the nearest bus stop and telephone requires a long hike along a road rutted by ox carts that...
by John Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
While writing a novel set in South America, John Hopkins travelled back there to "reacquaint himself with the scene". In 1972-3, he travelled by train, bus and boat from Mexico City to the centre of the continent, through Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua and on to Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay...
by Kit Ronallo
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Punta del Este, Uruguay the sun-kissed paradise of South America.
Punta del Este (known as the St. Tropez of South America) has miles of beautiful, pristine beaches. It attracts the rich and famous of South America and far beyond and is the vacation...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military study assesses the rise of Brazil as a global power. To examine this, the research takes an international relations approach to measure power in terms of a state's ability to influence other states. Three...
Darwinism in Argentina
Major Texts (1845-1909)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) brings together essays, letters, short-stories, and public lectures by travelers, scientists, writers, and politicians about Darwin and the theory of evolution in nineteenth century Argentina. This selection of texts provides a thorough overview of the...
by Barry Pomeroy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
My latest trip to South America resulted from a collision between my schedule and the timing of my friend Silvio’s latest project. I flew to Santiago, Chile to travel in the RV he has spent two years building on the frame of a Mercedes truck.Perhaps because we didn’t have a firm destination in...
by John D. Irany
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
BEFORE 1492 presents a compelling argument, based upon known historical facts and reasonable scientific deductions, that Portuguese mariners discovered America at least a decade before Columbus set sail on the Santa María, Pinta and Niña.The primary evidence for this theory is a map, now...
The Price of Fire
Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the “price of fire”—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these movements helped pave the way to the presidency for indigenous coca-grower Evo Morales in 2005, they have made...
Marching Powder
A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalist went to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. They formed an instant...
Buzzards and Bananas
Fragments from my Journals Across South America - Peru, the Amazon, Chile and Bolivia 1977-78
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Join George and Mary Ayers in the late seventies when South America was a little rougher and a little wilder, for an incredible journey through Peru, the Amazon, Chile, and Bolivia. Fusing together details scoured from their personal journals, photos, and letters home, Buzzards and Bananas captures the...
by Alastair Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
'Like its predecessor, the book is notable for its dash and enthusiasm, coupled with the photographer's instinct for the exotic and eccentric.' Sunday Times
'…another compelling bit of reading.' The Oxford Times
Here is the sequel to Alastair Scott's highly acclaimed Scot Free, which left...