South category: 6019 books
Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South(ern) Africa:
Long Histories and Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book traces the history of innovations from precolonial times and examines precolonial settlements in southern Africa such as Mapungubwe in LImpopo Province, Bokoni in Mpumalanga Province, and Msuluzi in KwaZulu-Natal Province from the perspective of their indigenous technological efforts to...
Eat Drink Delta
A Hungry Traveler's Journey through the Soul of the South
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
The Mississippi Delta is a complicated and fascinating place. Part travel guide, part cookbook, and part photo essay, Eat Drink Delta by veteran food journalist Susan Puckett (with photographs by Delta resident Langdon Clay) reveals a region shaped by slavery, civil rights, amazing wealth, abject...
Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way
Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling, and Other Sea Island Favorites
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
If there's one thing we learned coming up on Daufuskie," remembers Sallie Ann Robinson, "it's the importance of good, home-cooked food." In this enchanting book, Robinson presents the delicious, robust dishes of her native Sea Islands and offers readers a taste of the unique, West African-influenced...
On a Wing and a Prayer
One Woman's Adventure into the Heart of the Rainforest
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
As a young child, Sarah Woods imagined going on epic voyages to exotic, illusory lands filled with bizarre creatures, intoxicating rhythms, vibrant colours and other-worldly forests. As soon as she was old enough she packed a bag and set off to see the world for real, leaving friends and family behind...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
New Orleans is the largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in south-eastern Louisiana, on the Mississippi River. The population of the city is 484,674. The city is known for its rich cultural heritage (a strong French, Spanish and Negro influence), with music and a kitchen. Meetings...
Courage Tastes of Blood
The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community—Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country—across...
Fodor's Buenos Aires
with Side Trips to Iguaz� Falls, Gaucho Country & Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
The most European of South America's capitals, Buenos Aires charms with its cobbled streets and wrought-iron balconies and dazzles with fast-paced tango dancing, thrilling soccer...
by Joshua Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Great mariner's thrilling, first-hand account of the wreck of his ship off the coast of South America, the 35-foot "brave little craft" he built from the wreckage, and its remarkable, danger-fraught voyage home. A 19th-century maritime classic brimming with courage, ingenuity, and daring.
by John Biggar
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
'The Andes - A Guide for Climbers' is the only comprehensive guidebook to the peaks of the Andes.
This is the 4th English edition of the only comprehensive climbing guidebook to the peaks of the Andes. It covers many areas not described in any other source. This new edition has expanded coverage...
A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and species of the Sandhills region of the Carolinas and Georgia. Characterized by longleaf pine forests, rolling hills, abundant blackwater streams, several...
Big Water
The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Big Water explores four centuries of the overlapping histories of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (the Triple Frontier), and the colonies that preceded them. Examining an important area that includes some of the first national parks established in Latin America and one of the world’s largest hydroelectric...
Tellings and Texts
Music, Literature and Performance in North India
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some...
by Janet Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Come experience a trip through South America. These adventure stories will take you through Argentina, Patagonia, Chile and Uruguay. You'll find funny stories and interesting stories and stories that might make you wonder why you're not out there traveling too.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Sprawling and strange, magical and melancholy, continually veering between triumph and disaster, Buenos Aires is an alluring city. Written entirely by residents, Time Out Buenos Aires casts an independent and critical eye on the places, people and culture that have made this metropolis great and the...