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If you're daydreaming about the romantic notion to move to Costa Rica, buy a farm, have horses, and become part of a community outside of the bucolic expat condos, hold on for the ride! Back in 2004, I came to Costa Rica and ended up buying a 200-acre piece of farmland on my first trip to the...

Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the...

Idée d’itinéraire - Le tour de l’Équateur est un court extrait en format numérique tiré du beau livre Ulysse « Amérique latine et Caraïbes – 50 itinéraires de rêve ». Il suggère brièvement un itinéraire de 11 jours à travers les principales régions touristiques du pays depuis...

Idée d’itinéraire - Le Panamá, du Pacifique aux Caraïbes est un court extrait en format numérique tiré du beau livre Ulysse « Amérique latine et Caraïbes – 50 itinéraires de rêve ». Il suggère brièvement un itinéraire de 7 jours dans les superbes régions naturelles de l’ouest du pays, depuis le Golfo de Chiriquí jusqu’à Silico Creek, en passant par le volcan Barú.

Partez à la découverte de Julio Cortázar avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Le conteur et romancier argentin Julio Cortázar est un franc-tireur de la littérature. Cas complexe et personnel d'insurrection permanente contre les lieux communs, la passivité d'esprit, il rend vie au verbe...

La littérature brésilienne naît de sa matrice portugaise, et une des questions est de savoir si elle en constitue un rameau jusqu'à l'indépendance du pays en 1822, ou si elle prend son autonomie avec la « découverte » de celui-ci en 1500.

Cozumel in Mexico is one of the best dive locations in the world and has incredible beaches which lure visitors in search of winter sun as well as at other times of the year.  Nearby is Cancun and Playa del Carmen and a romantic beach at sunset is never far away. Finding Internet access...

Dennis Hambright has written a real insiders look at San José, Costa Rica with his 'Day by Day in San José'. Hambright isn't jut another wannabe who declared himself a local expert. He lives there, works there, speaks the language, and understands the culture and the people. He digs into all the nooks...

2nd revised edition This book describes a nine month journey through India and Nepal, focusing on the interesting and often arresting characters encountered along the way. The book is unusual as it is written from a female point of view. The narrator is an inexperienced and nervous traveller,...

Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently...

From Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel Los de abajo to Rosamaría Roffiel's Amora of 1989, fragmented narrative has been one of the defining features of innovative Mexican fiction in the twentieth century. In this innovative study, Carol Clark D'Lugo examines fragmentation as a literary strategy that reflects...

Andrew Hudgins needed to change his life. He was spiraling downward. After spending years caring for his father and his divorce that followed, He was determined to make a new man of himself. Join him in his decision making process that would lead him remarkably on a life voyage that ends with...

Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's magnificent...