South America category: 2208 books
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance
A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1991
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike...
Deep Down Dark
The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. The entire world watched what transpired above-ground during the grueling and protracted rescue, but the saga of the...
by Kim MacQuarrie
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.
In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador...
At the Devil's Table
The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemma—a man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and treacherous...
Alive
The Story of the Andes Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes.
Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including...
Pedro Álvares Cabral, sur les pas de Vasco de Gama
Le Brésil au hasard des alizés
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Pedro Álvares Cabral et la découverte du Brésil en moins d’une heure !Portugal, le 9 mars 1500. Pedro Álvares Cabral, un navigateur peu expérimenté, quitte le port de Lisbonne, chargé par le roi Manuel Ier de suivre les pas de Vasco de Gama et...
1942
O Brasil e sua guerra quase desconhecida
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Passados mais de setenta anos, a Segunda Guerra Mundial ainda é um assunto que fascina milhares de pessoas ao redor do mundo. O Brasil não é diferente. Por isso mesmo pode ser surpreendente que a participação do país no conflito seja ignorada pela maior parte da população. É para preencher...
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Tras los pasos de Vasco de Gama
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Pedro Álvares Cabral, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Comprender la relación de Pedro Álvares Cabral con la corte de Portugal, que lo lleva a reemplazar...
The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
The #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party...
A Revolta da Vacina
Mentes insanas em corpos rebeldes
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Imagine as ruas centrais e alguns bairros da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, então distrito federal, tomados por barricadas e trincheiras, a iluminação pública destruída, uma fúria dirigida a delegacias, repartições públicas e inclusive ao comércio, em busca de armas, querosene e dinamite. Imagine...
1789
A história de Tiradentes, contrabandistas, assassinos e poetas que sonharam a Independência do Brasil
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Você realmente conhece a história de Tiradentes e de seus companheiros inconfidentes? Minas Gerais no final do século XVIII era um lugar efervescente, selvagem e perigoso. Porém, muito mais perigosas que as rotas de contrabando de ouro e diamantes eram as ideias que pairavam na cabeça de jovens...
by Elio Gaspari
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2014
A obra de Elio Gaspari ganha versão digital com apresentação de documentosCOLEÇÃO DITADURAElio GaspariDurante os últimos trinta anos, o jornalista Elio Gaspari reuniu documentos até então inéditos e fez uma exaustiva pesquisa sobre o governo militar no Brasil. O resultado desse meticuloso...
by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the first to circumnavigate the globe, sailed on behalf of the Spanish monarch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and discovered the straights that now bear his name and the Philippines.
“Magellan is written in a tone of astonished...
The Scorpion's Sweet Venom
The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
"If I'm going to be a prostitute, I refuse to be an ordinary one."
Known to her clients as "Bruna the Surfer Girl," Surfistinha is the beautiful 17-year-old Brazilian run-away from a middle class family who detailed online her three years working as a prostitute in a posh Brazilian...