Latin America category: 3090 books

Known as the Little Britain of the Caribbean, Barbados lies to the northeast of mainland South America. The welcoming locals offer a warm, vibrant ambiance and this “pearl island” provides its visitors with more than just superb sandy beaches and the beautiful waters of the Caribbean Sea.  ...

Panama Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected. ...

As eloquent as it is alarming, Carol Ann Bassett’s portrait of today’s Galápagos depicts a deadly collision of economics, politics, and the environment that may destroy one of the world’s last Edens. For millions, the Galápagos Islands represent nature at its most unspoiled, an inviolate...

Ecuador Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected. ...

Jamaica's first tourists arrived in the late 1800s by banana boat, the result of a brainstorm by New England sea captain Lorenzo Down Baker, who fell in love with this mountainous island of delights. By the turn of the century banana exports had grown and Jamaica had become one of the trendiest vacation...

Falkland Islands Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

The Work from which the present Volume is translated consists of extracts from the Author's Journal, accompanied by his recollections and observations. The absence of chronological arrangement will be sufficiently accounted for, when it is explained that the zoological investigations for which the journey...

Creatures from another time, volcanic mountains five million years old, Indian tribes surviving from the pre-Inca period, jungles and rainforests: Ecuador has all this and more. Only in its Galapagos Islands did Charles Darwin discover such a variety of extraordinary fauna that on his return to England...

Have you ever thought about escaping to your own Caribbean island? Maybe dreamt of spending your days in the delicious tropical heat, swimming with sea creatures of every sort? Perhaps imagined eating tasty Caribbean fare and indulging in thick, cold smoothies bursting with flavourful local fruit?...

By turns and anecdotal and practical, this book tells the tales of the jungle and most of its dark secrets. Armchair travelers and true Indiana Joneses will benefit equally from Coningham's unique expertise on life in one of the most dangerous natural habitats on earth.

This time we will take you to the Costa Rican rainforest full of stunning colours, howling monkeys and hidden waterfalls. Dare yourself cross hanging bridges, explore volcanic craters and feed baby toucans with us. Get ready for your boiling adventure! Our Travel & Learn with Kids'n'Go...

In The City at Three PM, award-winning fiction writer Peter LaSalle offers 11 startlingly original personal essays dealing with his longtime quest for world travel of the literary sort.The range of offbeat experiences is wide-from driving recklessly across the county when young to seek out Saul Bellow...

Félix de Azara, 18 de mayo de 1742 (Barbuñales, Huesca)-1821. España.Fue militar, ingeniero, explorador, cartógrafo, antropólogo y naturalista.Estudió en la Universidad de Huesca y en la Academia militar de Barcelona dónde se graduó en 1764. Sirvió en el regimiento de infantería de Galicia...