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by Holiday FM
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Havana. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the City will hopefully give you a better understanding of its origins and make your visit more enjoyable. ...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
El Salvador Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Teddy Stanowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
There are over 20 sovereign nations that compose Latin America. Over 603 million people live in this sub-region. While many languages are spoken, the predominant languages are the Romantic languages of Spanish, Portuguese and French. However, in this vast melting pot of culture, you may find people...
When Men & Mountains Meet
Like the desire for drink or drugs, the craving for mountains is not easily overcome
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
‘We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. “Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death.”’
First published in 1946, the scope of...
Historic Treasures of Uzbekistan
Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
A fascinating insight into the author's journey along part of the Great Silk Road through Uzbekistan where he discovers a wealth of original and restored architecture dating back to the time when Genghis Khan came, conquered and destroyed it in the 13th century. Local hero Amir Temur (Tamerlane) rebuilt...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a giant of twentieth century literature—the only collection of interviews with Marquez available
Hailed by the New York Times as a "conjurer of literary magic," Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known to millions...
Mountain Madness
Mt. Everest and the Life & Legacy of Scott Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
A biography of the legendary mountain climber that “rounds out the portrait of Fischer sketched in Krakauer’s best-seller Into Thin Air” (The New York Times Book Review).
Scott Fischer found in Mount Everest a perfect landscape for his fearless spirit. Scaling the world’s highest peak...
Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures
A Book Of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Example Story in this ebook
AN EASTERN CITY
The modern capital of Persia lies in a plain ringed half-way round by mountains, which on the northern side touch with frozen summits the regions of eternal snow, and on the east sink into low ranges of hills, stretching their naked arms...
Gabriel García Márquez
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical...
by Gerald Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, García Márquez has one of literature's most instantly recognizable...
Roberto Bolaño's Fiction
An Expanding Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging...
One-Way Tickets
Writers and the Culture of Exile
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
One of the major novelists in world literature over the last five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) is also one of Latin America's most engaging public intellectuals, a critic of art and culture, and a playwright of distinction. This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's...
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas
Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution;...