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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $77, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARG23)		  
Insight Guide Argentina  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES
This profusely illustrated guide features essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture, with hundreds of photos and excellent maps. It includes a substantial section on Buenos Aires, along with chapters on Iguazu, the Lake District, Patagonia and other regions. (ARG02, $23.99)		   Insight Guide Argentina
Far Away and Long Ago  •  W.H. Hudson
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2006 •  PAPER  • 338 PAGES
Written in 1917, Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are enhanced by his own lively curiosity and observations of the landscapes, birds and nature of Argentina. (SAM11, $34.95)		   Far Away and Long Ago
Night Flight  •  Antoine de Saint Exupery
LITERATURE •  1986 •  PAPER  • 87 PAGES
Saint Exupery captures the thrill and mystery of early flight in this tale of a pilot alone in a storm over the Andes en route to Buenos Aires. Saint Exupery pioneered the first regular postal routes in South America and the Sahara in the 1920s. (PAT09, $12.00)		   Night Flight
Argentina Map  •  National Geographic
2011 •  MAP
This double-sided National Geographic Adventure Map at a scale of 1:2,000,000 highlights parks and preserves. Two Sides. 39x23 inches. (ARG12, $11.95)		   Argentina Map



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Buenos Aires Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A laminated street map of Buenos Aires and surroundings at a scale of 1:15,000. (ARG38, $8.95)
 		  
Bradt Guide Argentina  •  Erin McCloskey   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide in the popular series, with extensive practical details for travel, sightseeing and ex-cursions (ARG67, $27.99)
 		  
Culture Smart! Argentina  •  Robert Hamwee   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (ARG63, $9.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Buenos Aires  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The best of Buenos Aires is included in this practical guide, along with a pullout map and insider recommendations on shopping, eating, sleeping and day trips. (ARG10, $19.99)
 		  
Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin  •  David Rock   • HISTORY  •  A highly readable, comprehensive history of Argentina since colonization. (ARG07, $31.95)
 		  
Buenos Aires, A Cultural History  •  Jason Wilson  •  Alberto Manguel   • HISTORY  •  This well-referenced book offers a look into the geographical history of the city and goes in hand nicely with a more traditional guidebook. The city's underlying themes are laid out: Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar and the European literary tradition; tango, the longing and despair of the music and its roots; the cult of Evita Peron; European-influenced architecture and cafe life; totalitarian politics; and the nearly religious importance of soccer. (ARG21, $15.00)
 		  
Estancias: The Great Houses and Ranches of Argentina  •  Maria Saenz Quesada  •  Xavier Verstraeten   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Two dozen magnificent country estates are detailed in this sumptuously illustrated volume, featuring 200 color photographs and a cultural and social history by Maria Saenz Quesada. (ARG62, $75.00)
 		  
Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier  •  Richard Slatta   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A thorough, lively study of the gaucho, including the history and culture of Argentina and Brazil's famous cowboys. (ARG06, $27.00)
 		  
Tango, The Art History of Love  •  Robert Farris Thompson   • HISTORY  •  A probing cultural history of the tango, its working class origins in 19th-century Buenos Aires and Afro-Argentine roots. (ARG56, $17.00)
 		  
Tango: the Dance, the Song, the Story  •  Simon Collier   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A spirited, illustrated tribute to the tango, the now-elegant dance born in the brothels among the working class of 19th-century Buenos Aires. (ARG14, $29.95)
 		  
The Invention of Argentina  •  Nicolas Shumway   • HISTORY  •  An illuminating intellectual history of Argentina, this book brings the founding fathers of the republic to life, deftly portraying the revolution against Spain in 1810 and its immediate aftermath. (ARG08, $29.95)
 		  
Evita, The Real Life of Eva Peron  •  Nicholas Fraser   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Separating fact from myth, Frazer traces Evita's life from her humble origins to her place as a revered cult figure, also exploring Peronism and Argentine politics of the 1930s and 1940s. (ARG03, $15.95)
 		  
The Explorers of South America  •  Edward Goodman   • EXPLORATION  •  A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. (SAM10, $26.95)
 		  
Blow-Up and Other Stories  •  Julio Cortazar   • LITERATURE  •  Surreal stories from one of the great masters of Latin American short fiction. More Argentine in sensibility than setting. (ARG20, $15.00)
 		  
Imagining Argentina  •  Lawrence Thornton   • LITERATURE  •  A brilliant first novel that captures the hope and spirit of Argentina during the military rule of the late 1970s. This inventive tale focuses on Carlos Rueda and a group of citizens whose relatives disappeared. (ARG01, $15.00)
 		  
Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings  •  Jorge Borges   • LITERATURE  •  The best known work by this extraordinary writer. Sometimes bizarre, always hilarious and thought-provoking, this dazzling collection of stories is well worth the effort. (ARG09, $14.95)
 		  
Santa Evita  •  Tomas Eloy Martinez  •  Helen Lane   • LITERATURE  •  This riveting tale of the life -- and afterlife -- of Eva Duarte springs from actual events in Argentina in the 1950s, including the peregrinations of a perfectly preserved corpse. (ARG22, $16.00)
 		  
The Buenos Aires Quintet  •  Manuel Vazquez Montalban   • LITERATURE • COMING IN FEBRUARY  •  Montalban comments on not just wine, women and song, but also much of Argentina's political and cultural history in this riveting detective tale set against a backdrop of 1970s Buenos Aires culture and the era's repressive military junta. (ARG48, $14.95)
 		  
The Naturalist In La Plata  •  W.H. Hudson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A loving, leisurely natural history of Hudson's adopted homeland. (ARG24, $8.95)
 		  
Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica  •  Martin D. la Pena  •  Maurice Rumboll   • FIELD GUIDE  •  With color plates, range maps and brief descriptions, this is a compact regional guide. (SAM12, $29.95)
 		  
 
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