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by Colin Thubron
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way...
by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Lonely Planet ***Panama***is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip coconuts on a Caribbean beach; lay eyes on the awe-inspiring Panama Canal; or hike through sublime cloud forests; all with your trusted travel companion....
by Paige R. Penland
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Long a destination for serious surfers, El Salvador remains the “undiscovered” destination in Central America, inexpensive to visit and rich in local color.
In this new El Salvador guide you’ll find great information on the best places to stay, eat, and travel. And with a special surfing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of...
Cruise Through History
Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Sir Walter Raleigh left his mark on Trinidad during his search for El Dorado, the City of Gold. Admiral Nelson is a hero in this part of the world, such that he gave his name to a port in Antigua. He is rumored to have ended his days embalmed in rum. Peter Stuyvesant makes an appearance in Sint Maarten,...
by William D. LaRue, Kenneth P. Puckett
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
The history and operations of the Panama Canal during the 1980s and 1990s come to life in this vibrant memoir by retired canal pilot Kenneth P. Puckett and co-author William D. LaRue. In this autobiography, Captain Puckett shares "sea stories" and other exciting personal tales that have...
Nicaragua - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
More and more travelers are discovering the delights of Nicaragua—a land of lakes and volcanoes. The image has persisted of a country racked by revolution and war, but the reality awaiting travelers couldn't be more different. The largest country in Central America, Nicaragua is also one of the...
Translated Christianities
Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers...
by Sheri Kretzschmar
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Be prepared to visit Chichicastenango, Guatemala without losing precious time. Many visitors are only in Chichi for a few hours, so it is best to know what you would like to do before you arrive. Gain more knowledge about the Mayan History and life. Know what to expect in the largest market in Central...
The Body as Capital
Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Through economic liberalization and the untethering of labor and production markets, masculinity as hegemon has entered a crisis stage. Renegotiated labor and familial orders have triggered a widespread cultural renegotiation of how masculinity operates and is represented. This holds especially true...
Mining Memory
Reimagining Self and Nation through Narratives of Childhood in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of age. Mining Memory argues that Peruvian narratives of the twentieth century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts, but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and...
Ambivalent Desires
Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book...
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism
Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan...
Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary
Sugar and Obeah
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard...