Latin America category: 3090 books
Discovering North of Chile by Car
Illustrated Tales of a Journey among Andes’ Volcanoes and the Pacific Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
“Discovering North of Chile by Car,” is a travel story with more than 50 photos of a remote and fascinating region of Chile. You’ll journey through beautiful landscapes, from Antofagasta up to the border with Bolivia and Peru, from the volcanoes of the Andes, the arid Atacama Desert, to the raging...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Costa Rica and the Republic of Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east. The name Costa Rica means "rich coast." Costa...
Fodor's Buenos Aires
with Side Trips to Iguaz� Falls, Gaucho Country & Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
The most European of South America's capitals, Buenos Aires charms with its cobbled streets and wrought-iron balconies and dazzles with fast-paced tango dancing, thrilling soccer...
by Joshua Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Great mariner's thrilling, first-hand account of the wreck of his ship off the coast of South America, the 35-foot "brave little craft" he built from the wreckage, and its remarkable, danger-fraught voyage home. A 19th-century maritime classic brimming with courage, ingenuity, and daring.
by John Biggar
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
'The Andes - A Guide for Climbers' is the only comprehensive guidebook to the peaks of the Andes.
This is the 4th English edition of the only comprehensive climbing guidebook to the peaks of the Andes. It covers many areas not described in any other source. This new edition has expanded coverage...
Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution
Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Royalist Indians and slaves in the northern Andes engaged with the ideas of the Age of Revolution (1780–1825), such as citizenship and freedom. Although generally ignored in recent revolution-centered versions of the Latin American independence processes, their story is an essential part of the...
To Sin No More
Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
For 300 years, Franciscans were at the forefront of the spread of Catholicism in the New World. In the late seventeenth century, Franciscans developed a far-reaching, systematic missionary program in Spain and the Americas. After founding the first college of propaganda fide in the Mexican city of...
Empire's End
Transnational Connections in the Hispanic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The fall of the Spanish Empire: that period in the nineteenth century when it lost its colonies in Spanish America and the Philippines. How did it happen? What did the process of the "end of empire" look like? Empire's End considers the nation's imperial legacy beyond this period, all the...
by William J. Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A twenty eight page book that serves as your personal guide to these Mexican sports events. Describing the tradition, the culture, and the mechanics of the events to promote understanding of them.
by Janet Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Come experience a trip through South America. These adventure stories will take you through Argentina, Patagonia, Chile and Uruguay. You'll find funny stories and interesting stories and stories that might make you wonder why you're not out there traveling too.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Sprawling and strange, magical and melancholy, continually veering between triumph and disaster, Buenos Aires is an alluring city. Written entirely by residents, Time Out Buenos Aires casts an independent and critical eye on the places, people and culture that have made this metropolis great and the...
Edge of Empire
Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Río de la Plata
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires....
Left in Transformation
Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Network, 1967 -1984
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book takes an innovative look at international relations. Focusing on the worldwide campaign against abuses by the right-wing authoritarian regime in Uruguay (1973-1984), it explores how norms and ideas interact with political interests, both global and domestic. It examines joint actions by...
Travels and adventures in South and Central
A Life in the Llanos of Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
It was my lot several years ago—I need not state how many—to be brought forth into this world amid the wild scenes which I propose to describe. Later in life I was fortunate enough to be sent by my parents to England, for the purpose of finishing my education under the tuition of the learned fathers...