Latin America category: 3090 books
by Dave Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Aruba, the Caribbean island 15 miles north of Venezuela and an autonomous dependency of the Netherlands. This flat, riverless island is renowned for its white sand beaches. Its tropical climate is moderated by constant trade winds from the Atlantic...
by Fred Stanniford
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the U.S. Virgin Islands, an unincorporated organized territory of the United States of America between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico.
The U.S. Virgin Islands was formerly known as the Danish...
by Janet Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Crazy adventures in Central America from the author that brought you the "Trip Around the Sun" series of books. Here she brings more tales of adventure, this time in Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. She ponders whether to stay on the bus when a blind man takes the driver's seat, and whether...
Until Death Do Us Part
My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf...
by John Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far across the Atlantic, this event lit the fuse for a war that raged for the better part of two decades...
Walking the Americas
1,800 Miles, Eight Countries, and One Incredible Journey from Mexico to Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, Walking the Americas was published in the UK in February alongside the release of Wood’s eponymous Channel 4 TV series, which reached over 2 million viewers per episode. It has also been longlisted for the Banff Mountain Book award for adventure travel.
All...
Culture and Defence in Brazil
An Inside Look at Brazil's Aerospace Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil’s aerospace strategies.
Brazil is becoming increasingly important geopolitically, and several studies have sought to further understanding of this new position in the international arena....
The Book of Salsa
A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only in Spanish. This...
Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70
Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay...
Caribbean Revolutions
Cold War Armed Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book provides both a historical introduction and a comparative analysis of the five most important guerrilla movements in the Caribbean Basin between 1959 and the 1990s, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. The authors argue that the Cold War shaped and fueled...
by James Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Buenos Aires, Argentina, recognized for its European-style architecture and lively theater scene, is a truly special place. The second-largest city in South America, it has been the home of such renowned cultural and historical figures as Jorge Luis Borges and Astor Piazzola, Che Guevara and Eva Peron....
The Caribbean Policy of the Ulysses S. Grant Administration
Foreshadowing an Informal Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
From 1869 to 1877, the United States found itself deeply involved in the Caribbean as Washington sought to replace European influence and colonialism with an informal American empire. The Ulysses S. Grant administration primarily dealt with an uprising in Spanish Cuba known as the Ten Years’ War...
Costa Rica - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Costa Rica is renowned for its tropical beauty, the warmth and charm of the "Ticos"—its people's own name for themselves—and its political stability. This "Switzerland of the Americas" is widely regarded as an oasis of democracy in turbulent Central America. Since the first...
Ecuador - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Squeezed between Colombia in the north and Peru in the south, Ecuador is named for its location on the Equator and has a landscape so varied that it has been described as a microcosm of every microclimate found in South America. This diversity makes it a magnet for tourists, mountain trekkers, volunteers,...