Latin America category: 3090 books

Scoprite Salvador, la chiave che apre lo scrigno dei tesori di Bahia! Il Sud America. Il Brasile. Wow! Bahia... Salvador de Bahia. Basta il nome per cominciare a sognare, non è vero? Al solo pronunciarlo sentiamo il vento dell'esotismo che ci invita a partire, il fuoco della samba che...

Yo el Supremo è uno dei romanzi che meglio hanno definito i decenni durante i quali l’America Latina ha visto susseguirsi al potere dittatori e regimi militari. Argomento principale del romanzo è la ricerca del potere assoluto da parte di Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, uno tra i dittatori più longevi...

From the Canadian Rockies to the Panamanian jungle, Motorcycle Therapy rumbles with comic adventure as two men, fleeing failed relationships, test the limits of their motorcycles and their friendship. Join the horn-honking, signal-flashing, wheelie-popping pair as they endure painful bee stings, painful...

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...

CultureShock! Costa Rica is an indispensable companion for anyone who wishes to live and work amongst Central America’s famously friendly people. Life in Costa Rica often turns out to be more complicated than it seems at first glance but this book will not only help you quedar bien (be on good terms)...

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...

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Roatán.

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Trinidad and Tobago, a nation consisting primarily of two Caribbean islands just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. The country is the most industrialised and one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean.  The islands are replete with natural...

Aruba is the most popular of the Dutch islands on the Caribbean coast. The combination of white sandy beaches and rugged interior attracts “snowbirds”, honeymooners and beach lovers. The island is known for its glitzy resorts, casinos and private beaches and regularly draws tourists from North...

What's the Caribbean vacation of your dreams? With more than 7,000 islands to choose from, it's not always an easy decision. The good news is that -- short of skiing or ice skating -- the islands of the Caribbean offer something for everyone.   It's hard to beat the Bahamas for...

As the elder daughter of an emperor whose wife had presented him with no sons, Isabel stood to inherit the monarchy of Brazil with the passing of Dom Pedro II. On three separate occasions, Isabel was named regent, or head of state, when her father was required to leave the country for extended periods....

I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn't mine. In a city that wasn't mine, in a country that wasn't mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions...

After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of Buenos Aires, the country around...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Havana, Cuba. Havana is the capital city of Cuba, and one of the fourteen provinces of the Republic of Cuba. Before the Communist revolution, Havana was one of the vacation hotspots of the Caribbean, and since Cuba reopened to tourism in the 1990s, it...