South America
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A Concise History of Brazil
$35.00 Add to cartThe second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America’s largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil’s history from the arrival of the Portuguese… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Fausto, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1107635241
- Language: English
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Making Out in Spanish: (Spanish Phrasebook)
$11.99 Add to cartPlanning a trip to Central America? Studying abroad in Spain? Then you need an authentic guide to Spanish as it’s spoken in everyday situations Whether ordering a meal, bargaining for clothes in a sh… [more below]
- Series: Making Out Books
- Author: Espelleta, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0804851778
- Language: English
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The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartFernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room,… [more below]
- Author: Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 158648429X
- Language: English
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Motherland: A Memoir
$16.99 Read moreFrom Venezuelan reporter Paula Ram? comes a powerful memoir about one woman’s complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin.
In the span of a generation, oil-rich
- Author: Ramón, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1542036917
- Language: English
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High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico’s late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War ha
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0826312012
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$27.95 Read moreChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963-64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and culture of
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Clastres, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0942299787
- Language: English
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Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America
$16.95 Read moreChildress takes the reader on journeys deep into deadly jungles, windswept mountains, and scorching deserts in search of lost civilisations and ancient mysteries. Explore stone cities high in mountain… [more below]
- Series: Lost Cities Series
- Author: Childress, David Hatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: October 03 1995
- ISBN10: 093281302X
- Language: English
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The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartThe Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in Englis… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0822353601
- Language: English
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The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartHemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a d… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Lambert, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0822352680
- Language: English
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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
$50.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conve
- Author: Rivera, Luis N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0664253679
- Language: English
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Growing Up Yanomamo: Missionary Adventures in the Amazon Rainforest
$19.95 Add to cartAnthropologists surmise that the Yanomam are perhaps the last culture to come in contact with the modern world. Author Mike Dawson’s hair-raising and humorous growing up adventures, from his birth in… [more below]
- Author: Dawson, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: September 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1602650098
- Language: English
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History of Peru: A Captivating Guide to Peruvian History, Starting from the ChavÃn Civilization and Other Ancient Andean Civilizations
$23.99 Add to cartPeru is a land of majesty and wonder where myth, legend, and history all come together. And this book gives you a front-row seat!
The land of Peru is one that, for many, seems far away and distant. Eve
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168942
- Language: English
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Ecuador – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights–get to know the people.
The people who inhabit the diverse landscapes of this beautiful land are proud, friendly, hospitable, and hardworking, but to understand the culture- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Culture Smart!
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1787023001
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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The Inca Empire: An Enthralling Overview of the Incas, Their Civilization in Ancient Peru, and the Spanish Conquest
$26.99 Add to cartDid you know that the Incas worshiped the mummies of their emperors?
For the Incas, death didn’t exist; it simply took the dead to a different plane of life. So, the mummies of their emperors were trea
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651446
- Language: English
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Peru – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights–get to know the people.
Peru’s distinctive Spanish and indigenous cultures that first encountered each other five hundred years ago have progressively integrated. However, t… [more below]
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Culture Smart!
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1787022803
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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River Without a Cause: An Expedition Through the Past, Present and Future of Theodore Roosevelt’s River of Doubt
$29.95 Read moreA riveting journey down Theodore Roosevelt’s “river of doubt” with a diverse crew of adventurers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders who shine light on the past, present, and future of a natural wonde… [more below]
- Author: Moses, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365575
- Language: English
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Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan
$19.95 Add to cartThe 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent’s journey to Tierra del Fuego.
Rockwell Kent is one of America’s most famous graphic artists. He was also an avid traveler. Kent was espec
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0819564095
- Language: English
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Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica
$31.95 Add to cartPocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica is the first guide to provide comprehensive coverage of every currently known mammal species found in Costa Rica. From the Central American Silky Anteater to
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Reid, Fiona A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766961
- Language: English
