South America category: 2208 books

Discover this vast and varied South American country with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to hit the beaches of Rio, take a boat up the Amazon or explore the gorgeous colonial towns of Minas Gerais, The Rough Guide to Brazil will show you the ideal places...

Sacred Sites: Peru The Guide to Your Magical Journey The South American country of Peru has long inspired those in search of enlightenment, with its fascinating tribal cultures, lush greenness, vibrant wildlife and primal magic that envelops the land and its people. Here sacred valleys, tropical...

Originally published in Spanish, Curbelo’s The History of the Mormons in Argentina is a groundbreaking book detailing the growth of the Church in this Latin American country. Through numerous interviews and access to other primary resources, Curbelo has constructed a timeline, and then documents...

During the five years Jimmy Burns was based in Buenos Aires, which resulted in his award-winning study of the Falklands War and its aftermath, The Land That Lost Its Heroes, he also embarked on further-flung journeys in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile. 'Each South American country...

The story of an imperfect romance on a crowded sailboat unfolds as the four-person crew sails among the beautiful, isolated islands of the South Pacific. French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand are some of the landfalls you’ll discover along the way. The story moves to the...

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.  This beautiful city is often referred to as the “Paris of South America”. Buenos Aires is a major Latin American tourist attraction and offers a large choice of cultural events,...

Journey to South America on a search for endangered species with the author of My Family and Other Animals. In 1950, Gerald Durrell set off for British Guiana (now Guyana) to collect native wildlife and bring it back to his Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the English...

This is a seventeenth century translation of a "Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias", an impassioned tirade against Spanish behavior across South America and the Caribbean, recording a litany of horrors committed against the indigenous people there. In...

Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good and the work was easy - or so he thought. Then the truth was revealed: he had to sail to South America to collect one of the biggest shipments of cocaine ever bound for the...

Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available...

The origin of Coca leaves is dated back roughly 4,000-8,000 years ago which is native to the South America, has been utilized as medicinal herbs as well as a medicine and so-called stimulant in Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, but mainly in Peru and Bolivia. This book is an effort to present...

A classic portrait of an unforgettable country from one of Britain’s best loved writers Following a period of illness, Rudyard Kipling followed his doctor’s advice and took off, with his wife, on a long sea voyage from Southampton to Brazil. While in South America he wrote seven gripping travelogues,...

Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon...

This true tale of adventure and self-discovery begins behind the walls of a seemingly large prison, once known as East Germany, which finally collapses in 1989. Inspired by a peaceful revolution, he embarks upon a quest for spiritual freedom and adventure, which eventually takes him to South America....