South America category: 2208 books
Chile - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east, the forbidding salt basins of the Atacama Desert to the north—with a verdant Central Valley and Cape Horn at its southern extremity. The Chilean people, too, are surprising: on one hand reserved,...
Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70
Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay...
by John Dos Passos
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
John Dos Passos, the distinguished American novelist and historian has been personally interested in Brazil for the last fifteen years. He first visited the country in 1948, and returned again in 1956 and 1962. This book, which is based on his experiences in Brazil, presents the people and landscapes...
by Raghbir Jin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
It’s not easy graduating from college with a diploma in a dying industry – especially when you’re graduating into the worst global recession since the dirty ‘30s.As his streak of ill fortune drags onward, Capt. Raghbir Jin, Ph.D. (claims of captain and doctor status unproven and irrelevant)...
Argentina - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The second-largest country in South America, Argentina has been through great changes in recent years. Its journey from dictatorship to democracy has left many scars, but these are largely eclipsed by the pride and resilience of the Argentinian people, who have developed a style, a language, and a...
A British Enterprise in Brazil
The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830–1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Marshall Eakin presents what may be the most detailed study ever written about the operations of a foreign business in Latin America and the first scholarly, book-length study of any foreign business enterprise in Brazil. Between 1830 and 1970 the British-owned St. John d’el Rey Mining Company,...
by David Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Machu Picchu in Peru. This UNESCO World Heritage site is often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas" and is one of the most famous and spectacular sets of ruins in the world - a visit to South America would not be complete without it....
A Very Peruvian Practice
Travels with La Señora
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most perceptive accounts ever written about Peru, this travel book is exotically set in South America, spanning the sandy shores of the Pacific coast, across the heights of the snow-capped Andes to the dark rain forests of the Amazon, relating an interlude passed...
The Drive
Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The Drive follows Teresa Bruce on her 2003 road trip through Mexico and onto the Pan American Highway, in a rickety camper with her old dog and new husband in tow. Bruce first set off on the exact same route in 1973, her parents at the helm and their two young daughters in tow, as a reaction to the...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
The history of Colombia, Long before the arrival of the first Spanish explorers, Indian groups had settled in the area of present-day Colombia. The Mesoamericans (Indians originally inhabiting Central America), who arrived in approximately 1200 B.C., introduced the cultivation of corn. They were followed...
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig
Travels Through Paraguay
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay–South America's darkly fabled, little-known “island surrounded by land.”
Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your...
Gods of the Cataclysm
A revolutionary investigation of man and his gods before and after the Great Cataclysm
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Iconic author, poet and anthropologist Hugh Fox was connecting the dots on contacts between the ancient cultures, across the globe, in prehistoric and post-Flood eras long before recent evidence surfaced to support his theories. In GODS OF THE CATACLYSM, Fox weaves a fascinating story, in classic...
by Erica Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands are a small archipelago of islands belonging to Ecuador in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The islands are quite remote and isolated, lying some 1000 km (620 miles) west of the South American continent. The Galapagos...
by Claudia Piñeiro
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
A tightly plotted mystery novel set in contemporary Argentina and recently made into a film (“Betibu”, directed by Miguel Cohan) acclaimed at the 2014 London Film Festival.
The author has won the Clarin Prize and is South America’s bestselling crime novelist (selling over 250,000...