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The Footloose American
Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America
In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National...
A Visit to Don Otavio
A Mexican Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In the mid-1940s, Sybille Bedford set off from Grand Central Station for Mexico, accompanied by her friend E., a hamper of food and drink (Virginia ham, cherries, watercress, a flute of bread, Portuguese rosé), books, a writing board, and paper. Her resulting travelogue captures the violent beauty...
The End of the Rainy Season
Discovering My Family's Hidden Past in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She took her father’s claims at face value, basking in her exotic roots, until she started to notice things. The unverified legend became a riddle she...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913–2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Elizabeth...
by Mylene Fernández Pintado
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"Mylene Fernandez offers us a magnificent gift. Her story of lost love and the difficult pursuit of literature is at the same time an X-ray of life in Havana, set in a present where glimpses of the future have not yet arrived."-Leonardo Padura, author of The Man Who Loved Dogs and the Mario...
by Susan J Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Real virgins say, "Yes!" (In Mexico, they say "Sí!") With that answer, Susan Cobb commits to remodeling a house on the coast of Mexico-and refurbishing her life along with it. Virgin Territory will transport you to the rural lushness of Mexico's Pacific Coast, a region bursting...
by David McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
With An Innocent in Ireland (1995), David McFadden began his eccentric journeys to the heart of some of the world’s most unique island nations. Now McFadden rambles through the highs and lows of Cuba, home to cigars, Guantanamera, and of course Castro. The beautiful Caribbean landscape, along with...
by Michelle Mulder
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Dian has been coming to the Dominican Republic with her doctor parents for years. Now that she's 14, she had wanted to stay home in Canada, but instead she is helping her parents set up their clinic and looking forward to hanging out with her Dominican friend Aracely. When fourteen-year-old Aracely...
by Theresa Zollicoffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Traveling to a spanish speaking country or would you just like to learn the basics of spanish. This is a little pocket book for your basic spanish translation needs from greetings, hotel accommodations to the weather and seasons. This trusty handbook also have worksheets and lessons so that you won't...
Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens
A Couchsurfer's Memoir of Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of firebrand,” populist,” anti-American” president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Alone in the crime capital of the world Maslin immediately finds himself in...
Hard Aground, Again
The Incomplete Idiot's Guide to Doing Stupid Stuff With Boats
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
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The Jaguar Smile
A Nicaraguan Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
“I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice.” So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The...
My Name is Victoria
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families...
Revolutionizing Motherhood
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years. During the Argentine junta's Dirty War against subversives, as tens of thousands were abducted, tortured, and disappeared, a group of women forged the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and changed Argentine...