Latin America category: 3090 books

An American who cannot afford to live in his own house escapes to Panamá. Finds himself in Heaven - a beautiful land with wonderful people - but finds corrosive civilization coming ever nearer this fragile alien world. In this travel memoir, novelist James David Audlin tells of his adventures...

Photos and maps throughout. Here you'll find every practical detail on the Mazatlan area that you need, as well as town and regional maps and sound travel advice from an author who knows the region intimately. Adventures range from cultural to physical. Learn Spanish in Mazatlan's top language school,...

This full-color guide includes vibrant photos and detailed maps to help with trip planning. Award-winning travel writer Christopher P. Baker shows travelers the way to the best of Costa Rica-whether it's surfing the beaches of Golfo Dulce, hiking in Corcovado National Park, or dining in the...

Our illustrated travel guide will help you to plan an exciting trip to San Juan in Puerto Rico. It’s the ideal location for a cultural or warm beach vacation holiday - we take you to Old San Juan, home to historic attractions, galleries and museums. El Condado, the upscale city beach neighborhood...

The Grass is Greener Till You Get To The Other Side is a factual account of one couple’s experience of retiring to Belize in 2003. Over the next decade they met many unforeseen trials and challenges of living in the developing world, as well as coping with other cultural idiosyncrasies. Her memoir is an adventure and provides guidance for anyone choosing to do the same.

Frommer’s books aren’t written by committee, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We use seasoned journalists like Nicholas Gill has been covering Panama for over a decade and has strong opinions on what travelers should do in country…and...

Part 2 of Dave and Susie's Big Adventure tells the story of our intrepid travellers' return to New Zealand after their daring drive to England via Australia, South East Asia, China, Kazakhstan, Russia and the EU. Not content to merely ship their Toyota Surf home, they elect instead to ship it to Buenos...

Containing over one hundred selections—most of them published in English for the first time—The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories,...

A recollection of memories that can only be understood through the imperfection of time ... a memoir about learning, being wrong just as many times as right, and growing as a constant process. A piece of life in words ... a revealing, honest work. Celia Peris-Peris, PhD Men who voted for George...

A book as rich and sprawling as the seductive metropolis it evokes, Rio de Janeiro builds a kaleidoscopic portrait of this city of extremes, and its history of conflict and corruption. Award-winning novelist, ex-government minister and sociologist, Luiz Eduardo Soares tells the story of Rio through...

When she was twenty-seven, Nell Stevens—a lifelong aspiring novelist—won an all-expenses-paid fellowship to go anywhere in the world to write. Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an exotic paradise? Not exactly. Nell picked Bleaker Island, a snowy, windswept pile of rock...

Extrait : D’autant que quelques Cosmographes et autres historiens de nostre temps ont jà par cy devant escrit de la longueur, largeur, beauté et fertilité de ceste quatriesme partie du monde appelée Amerique ou terre du Bresil : ensemble des isles proches et terres continentes à icelle, du...

The story began in 1918, when Gustavo Arellano's great-grandfather and grandfather arrived in the United States, only to be met with flying potatoes. They ran, and hid, and then went to work in Orange County's citrus groves, where, eventually, thousands of fellow Mexican villagers joined them. Gustavo...

Varadero is a major tourist resort city in Cuba made famous by its beautiful stretch of white sand beach. It is a part of Matanzas province and is located on the northern shores of this Caribbean island. Varadero is a long narrow peninsula stretching into the Gulf of Mexico in the shape of a hockey...