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All Roads Lead to Austen
A Year-long Journey with Jane
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
"An illuminating insight...fascinating."—Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary
"A journey through both a physical landscape and the geography of the human heart and mind...delightfully entertaining and often deeply moving, this book reminds us that Austen's...
by Kit Ronallo
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. This beautiful city is often referred to as the “Paris of South America”.
Buenos Aires is a major Latin American tourist attraction and offers a large choice of cultural events,...
Los Lobos
Dream in Blue
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of “La Bamba” became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the band’s new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong....
by Élmer Mendoza
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Tormented by past heartbreak and contemporary politics, for Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta the news of the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in the drug-ridden city of Culiacán.
It soon becomes clear that there is no shortage of suspects in a city where it's...
Princess Isabel of Brazil
Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
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....
by Jon Yu
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
It's time to plan your visit to the most visited city in South America...
Are you a tango addict? Are you looking to explore tango further? Or do you simply want to go on an adventure to somewhere new?
No matter how long you have been dancing tango or if you dance at all, you owe it...
by Sir John Mandeville
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
"Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a book account of his supposed travels, which probably first appeared in Anglo-Norman French, and first circulated between 1357 and 1371....
Situating Salsa
Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.
Aya Awakenings
A Shamanic Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to document the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of "spiritual tourists," rogue scientists, black magicians,...
Santiago's Children
What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little...
by Eric Luther, Ted Henken
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
The Critical Lives series takes a biographical look at pivotal, fascinating people and a critical look at the work and accomplishments that, rightly or wrongly, made them unique, influential, and enduring. Discover the events that shaped their lives and how they came to shape our worldChe Guevara...
Diary of a Combatant
The Diary of the Revolution that Made Che Guevara a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
The publication of this title by Ocean Sur in Spanish in July 2011 provoked considerable international attention (including CNN). This never-before-published diary (comprising a dozen small notebooks) Ernesto Che Guevara kept during the guerrilla war in Cuba when he joined the struggle to overthrow the...
Paisanos
The Irish and the Liberation of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune, and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the...
Nobody Rides for Free
A Drifter's Guide to the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Nobody Rides For Free: A Drifter in the Americas chronicles former bike courier John Hughes' rambles through Latin America on a bicycle. In this gripping mosaic-travellogue, readers are introduced to banditos, artists, grifters, would-be wives, dope fiends and attacking monkeys: a cast of characters...