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1	Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail more books like this by Rusty Young, Thomas McFadden add to wishlist Inspired by the description of Bolivia's San Pedro Prison in the "Lonely Planet" guidebook, Young decided to spend four months listening to inmate McFadden and learning about one of the strangest places on earth. see all copies from $4.66! new only from $10.13! \| SVS
2	Exploration Fawcett more books like this by Percy Harrison Fawcett add to wishlist This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett's ten years of travels in forests and death-filled rivers in search of a secret city was compiled from manuscripts, letters and logbooks by his son. ' The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of today. In 1925 Fawcett was convinced that he ... see all copies from $13.07! first editions
3	Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America more books like this by Michael Taussig add to wishlist see all copies from $13.78! new only from $23.57! \| SVS
4	The sea & the jungle. more books like this by H. M. Tomlinson add to wishlist Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, The Sea and the Jungle is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a light-hearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira, by an English ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Island of the Sun: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel more books like this by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., Erik Jendresen add to wishlist Following his spiritual journeys to the South and West described in Dance of the Four Winds, Villoldo prepares for the journey to the North, where lies the wisdom of the ancient Inca shamans. At the "Island of the Sun," a sacred site in Bolivia, Villoldo uncovers a profound secret about the journey to the East--the journey home. see all copies from $6.50! new only from $9.79! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Latin American Histories more books like this by Herbert S Klein add to wishlist The Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society.The history of the peoples of Bolivia is one of the more complex and fascinating of historical evolutions. A society created by imperial conquests and native adaptations, it remains today a nation dominated by its peasantry, yet fully participating in the world economy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.93! \| SVS
7	Che: A Memoir more books like this by David Deutschmann (Editor) add to wishlist In a new, expanded edition of a best-selling Ocean classic, Castro describes a historic political partnership that changed the face of Cuba and Latin America. He vividly portrays Che-the man, the revolutionary, and the thinker-recounting in detail his last days with Che in Cuba, giving a remarkably frank assessment of the Bolivian mission. Fidel ... see all copies from $3.74! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
8	Three adventures: Galápagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes more books like this by Jacques Yves Cousteau, Philippe Diolé add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
9	Killing Che more books like this by Chuck Pfarrer add to wishlist A former Navy SEAL pens this gripping, spellbinding thriller, set in 1967. CIA officer Paul Hoyle is a RcontractorS sent to Bolivia with a team of Green Berets to stamp out a looming communist insurgency, as well as one Ernesto Che Guevara. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.97! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Cochabamba!: Water Rebellion in Bolivia more books like this by Oscar Olivera, Tom Lewis add to wishlist A new phase in the international movement to turn back the rising tide of corporate globalization was marked by US protests in Seattle and the triumphs of grassroots activists in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Volumes have been written about the struggle to shut down the World Trade Organization meetings, but little has been documented about the arguably ... see all copies from $4.21! new only from $9.75! \| SVS
11	Let Me Speak!: Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines more books like this by Victoria Ortiz (Translator), Moema Viezzer, Domitila B De Chungara add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.60! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Twilight of Heroes more books like this by Ralph Peters add to wishlist A military thriller set in a remote jungle hamlet in Bolivia which charts the plight of Colonel John Church and his battle against corruption, poverty and hopelessness in a world polluted by the drug economy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Struggles of Voice: The Politics of Indigenous Representation in the Andes more books like this by Jose Antonio Lucero add to wishlist Over the last two decades, indigenous populations in Latin America have achieved a remarkable level of visibility and political effectiveness, particularly in Ecuador and Bolivia. In "Struggles of Voice", Jose Antonio Lucero examines these two outstanding examples in order to understand their different patterns of indigenous mobilization and to ... see all copies from $25.95! new only from $25.95!
14 view cover	Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival more books like this by Yossi Ghinsberg add to wishlist What begins as a dream adventure for four amicable, if hastily met, muchileros (backpackers) quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the jungle. They are an odd mix to be sure: Marcus, the Swiss mystic; Karl, the shady Austrian geologist; Kevin, the well-intentioned American photographer; and Yossi, the Israeli ... see all copies from $8.57! new only from $12.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia more books like this by Marcia Stephenson add to wishlist In Andean Bolivia, racial and cultural differences are most visibly marked on women, who often still wear native dress and speak an indigenous language rather than Spanish. In this study of modernity in Bolivia, Marcia Stephenson explores how the state's desire for a racially and culturally homogenous society has been deployed through images of ... see all copies from $3.84! new only from $25.40! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851-1852 more books like this by William Lewis Herndon, Gary Kinder (Editor) add to wishlist A firsthand account of America's first expedition into the Amazon valley is taken from the original report of Captain William Lewis Herndon as he documents his experiences, adventures, and encounters with the great Amazon wilderness in the mid-nineteenth century. Original. see all copies from $3.06! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival more books like this by Yossi Ghinsberg add to wishlist A classic adventure book in the spirit of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "Heart of Darkness," "A thrilling book." --"The Washington Post" Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $9.37! \| SVS
18 view cover	A Concise History of Bolivia more books like this by Herbert S Klein add to wishlist In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural, and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $4.49! \| SVS
19 view cover	Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People more books like this by Thomas A Abercrombie add to wishlist This work examines the relationship between European and indigenous Andean ways of understanding the past. Following field work in Bolivia, the author argues that complex Andean rituals have hybridized European and indigenous traditions and are evidence of a keen social memory in the community. see all copies from $3.19! new only from $21.25! \| SVS
20 view cover	We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines more books like this by June C Nash add to wishlist This account of life in the Bolivian tin mines has been revised to include a new preface by the author that brings the text up to date. It addresses new issues in anthropology and recounts the author's findings during her most recent visit to Bolivia. see all copies from $4.11! new only from $24.65! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Mountain of the Condor: Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu more books like this by Joseph W. Bastien add to wishlist see all copies from $5.50! new only from $59.97! \| first editions
22 view cover	When Invisible Children Sing more books like this by Chi-Cheng Huang, Irwin Tang, Robert Coles, M.D. (Foreword by) add to wishlist Expecting to treat some mildly ill children from the streets of Bolivia on a quick service trip, an idealistic young medical student gets more than he bargained for when he takes a year off from Harvard Medical School to work at an orphanage in La Paz. see all copies from $3.89! new only from $4.05! \| SVS
23 view cover	Green Hell - Adventures in the Mysterious Jungles of Eastern Bolivia more books like this by Julian Duguid add to wishlist Text extracted from opening pages of book: GREEN HELL Adventures in the Mysterious Jungles of Eastern Bolivia By JULIAN DUGUID With a Foreword by HIS EXCELLENCY MARQUES DE MERRY DEL VAL, G. C. V. O. Ambassador of Hts Majesty The KM& of Spam $ o tht Court of St. Jamts Illustrated from Photographs Taken by Members of the Expedition THE CENTURY CO. ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $33.56! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance more books like this by Michelle Bigenho add to wishlist Sounding Indigenous explores the relations between music, people, and places through analysis of Bolivian music performances: by a non-governmental organization involved in musical activities, by a music performing ensemble, and by the people living in two rural areas of Potosi. Based on research conducted between 1993 and 1995, the book frames ... see all copies from $25.95! new only from $34.80! \| SVS
25 view cover	Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca more books like this by Benjamin S Orlove add to wishlist This text weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters, boat builders and families of this isolated region, and describes ... see all copies from $6.32! new only from $49.97!

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