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In Patagonia: 4
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Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA. His first book, IN PATAGONIA, is a most unorthodox travel book (a designation Chatwin disliked), a picaresque chronicle of his own wanderings through the wildest parts of South America. Chatwin writes ...
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Capoeira: The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace
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Gerard Taylor
The second volume of a comprehensive history of the art and sport of capoeira, this book picks up the story where volume I finished: in the first decades of the 20th century. It describes the capoeira "Bamba," mestre Bimba, who became renowned as a fighting champion in Bahia and opened the first legal academy during the dictatorship of Getulio ...
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Narrative of the Incas
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Juan De Betanzos, Roland Hamilton (Editor), Dana Buchanan (Editor)
One of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s when the remaining sixty-four chapters were discovered in the collection of the Fundación Bartolomé March in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ...
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Costa Rica
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Les D Beletsky, Priscilla Barrett (Illustrator), David Beadle (Illustrator)
Most visitors to Costa Rica want to experience its lush tropical forests and catch glimpses of exotic wildlife: toucans and parrots, hummingbirds and hawks, monkeys and big cats, frogs and toads, crocodiles and snakes. Here is all the information they need to find, identify, and learn about Costa Rica's magnificent wildlife.
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Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19 Year Old Ameican, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe.
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Bruce Olson
What happens when a 19-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. This revised version of Olson's story is a reminder that simple faith in Christ can make anything possible.
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White Rock
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Hugh Thomson
With the backdrop of the Andes mountains, Thomson's intoxicating history of the Inca people and their heartland is a thrilling mix of information and adventure. 45 photos.
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Birds of Peru
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Thomas S Schulenberg
Nearly eighteen hundred different bird species - one fifth of the world's birds - have been recorded in Peru. "Birds of Peru" is the most complete and well-researched field guide to this rich and fascinating diversity. It illustrates every one of the 1,792 species and shows the distinct plumages of each. It includes 304 superb, high-quality color ...
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Christopher Columbus
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Dr. Stephen Krensky
A retelling of the story of Columbus's voyage, written and illustrated for early readers.
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Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism
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Domingo F Sarmiento, L.L.D., Ilan Stavans (Illustrator), Mary Peabody Mann (Translator)
Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals, this work is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho "barbarian" Juan Facundo Quiroga. It is also a complex and passionate investigation of the dialectic of civilization and barbarism. Sarmiento explores the impact of Argentinian geography on the life of the gaucho ...
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Killer bees the Africanized honey bee in the Americas
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Winston
Since their introduction into southern Brazil in the 1950s, Africanized - or "killer" - bees have acquired a reputation among the general public that is straight out of a science fiction movie. As colonies of these feisty bees have gradually moved north, expanding their range into Mexico and, most recently, Texas, lurid reports of their sometimes ...
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Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture
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Diana Sorensen Goodrich, Diana Sorensen
Domingo F. Sarmiento's classic 1845 essay Facundo, Civilización y Barbarie opened an inquiry into the nature of Argentinian culture that continues to the present day. In this elegantly written study, Diana Sorensen explores the varied, and often conflicting, readings that Facundo has received since its publication and shows how these readings have ...
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Argentina
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"Insight Guide: Argentina" provides everything a traveler will ever need in a guidebook. It's a terrific background read before you go, an invaluable on-the-spot companion, and a great souvenir of the visit. Expert local writers bring to life the country's history, culture, arts, and people. Street plans for the main cities and clearly marked ...
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Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823
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Emilia Viotti Da Costa
A remarkable study of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere. In 1823 Demerara (now Guyana), 60,000 black slaves rose up against their British masters and then were brutally put down. With gripping narrative, this book explores the conflicts within the society that gave the rebellion life, and the larger ...
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Three Letters from the Andes
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
The six friends who set off to climb in the Andes in the autumn of 1971 were as varied and remarkable as the characters in a novel. The expedition was led by Robin Fedden, the writer and poet, and his wife there was a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence who had fought in the French Resistance and a ...
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The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America
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William H Beezley (Editor), Judith Ewell (Editor)
SR Books' two popular Human Tradition in Latin America titles, covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, have been combined into one exciting new volume. The most compelling chapters from these books are now presented in The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America. From the turbulent struggles for independence in the 1800s to the ...
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Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
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Gary B Nash
A history text of America's colonial period emphasizing the interaction of three cultures--colonialists, Indians, and blacks.
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The Incas
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Daniel Peters, Daniel Peter
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Handbook of South American Archaeology
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Helaine Silverman
"The Handbook of South American Archaeology" has been created as a major reference work for archaeologists working in South America, professors and their upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in South American archaeology courses including areal courses (Central Andes, North Andes, tropical lowlands), archaeologists working elsewhere ...
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Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich
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Ladislas Farago
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Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents
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Bruno Nettl
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Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina
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Brian Winter
After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of Buenos Aires, the country around them collapses, gripped by inflation, street ...
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Digging Up Butch and Sundance
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Anne Meadows
"It's hard to imagine even the most chair-bound stay-at-home not enjoying this great adventure. Tracking down these odd bandidos with Meadows is lots of fun." - Tony Hillerman. "What a book! Hard-traveling historians on a quest. Romance! Altitude sickness! The driest desert in the world! Potentially deadly disputes over centuries-old bones! The ...
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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile
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Sara Wheeler
Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself easily to maps. Nor, as Sara Wheeler found out, does it easily lend itself to a lone woman with two carpetbags who wishes to travel from the top to the bottom, from the driest ...
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Keen's Latin American Civilization: History & Society, 1492 to the Present
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Benjamin Keen
The central theme of the text is Latin America's economic dependency on European powers and the United States, and its struggle for liberation from dependency and its consequences: social decline, mass poverty, and corrupt, arbitrary governments.. 0813334020 Essays in the Intellectual History of Colonial Latin America 0813336236 Latin American ...
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks
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Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself crawling through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees in the rainforest, and scaling craggy Patagonian cliffs as he collected specimens and closely ...
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