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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $56, including
U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXSAM194)		  
Lonely Planet Buenos Aires  •  Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
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)		   Lonely Planet Buenos Aires
Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien  •  Brian Winter
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 336 PAGES
A journalist posted to the capital during the economic crisis, Winter captures the rhythms and character of Buenos Aires with fearless, profane wit in this wise and rollicking portrait. (ARG80, $24.95)		   Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien
Buenos Aires Map  •  Borch Maps
2006 •  MAP
A laminated street map of Buenos Aires and surroundings at a scale of 1:15,000. Two Sides. 20 X 39 inches. (ARG38, $8.95)		   Buenos Aires Map
Rio de Janeiro Map  •  National Geographic
2011 •  MAP
This colorful National Geographic Destination Map (1:15,000) includes insets of Tijuca, Sao Crystal and Copacabana. One Side. 39x27 inches. (BZL25, $8.99)		   Rio de Janeiro Map



Also Recommended

Portuguese, Start Speaking Today (Brazilian)  •  Language/30   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A 90-minute primer on Brazilian Portuguese following the foreign service method. (BZL36, $24.95)
 		  
Bossa Nova, The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World  •  Ruy Castro   • HISTORY  •  Journalist Ruy Castro interviewed everyone who had anything to do with Boss Nova for this animated history, capturing not only the personalities of pioneers like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto but also the spirit of Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s. (BZL47, $17.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Rio de Janeiro  •  Ruy Castro   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Castro brings journalistic insight to this marvelous, diverse portrait of Rio, its history, diverse culture and contemporary challenges. (BZL42, $16.95)
 		  
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 Brazilians  •  Joseph Page   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A clear, comprehensive and compelling introduction to Brazil, covering politics, history, economics, ecology, conservation and culture. (AMZ16, $22.95)
 		  
The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil  •  Chris McGowan  •  Ricardo Pessanha   • MUSIC  •  A wide-ranging history of popular music in Brazil, revised with an undated discography of 1000 titles. The authors write for Billboard magazine. (BZL52, $31.95)
 		  
A Death in Brazil  •  Peter Robb   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily) flourishes his mastery of the complexities of Brazilian travel, politics, culture and history. This book is impressive for its prose, insight and the author's sheer bravura. (BZL43, $18.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Far Away and Long Ago  •  W.H. Hudson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are rich with descriptions of the landscapes, birds and nature of Argentina. (SAM11, $34.95)
 		  
Samba  •  Alma Guillermoprieto   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A memorable account of life and music on the coast of Brazil by the talented and wide-ranging Guillermoprieto. A dancer herself, she lived for a year in Manguiera, a favela near Rio known for its samba school. Nominated for a National Book Award. (BZL38, $16.00)
 		  
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands  •  Jorge Amado   • LITERATURE  •  The best known novel by Brazil's much loved author. Amado spins a satiric tale of a young cooking teacher in Salvador, Bahia, who is haunted by her first husband, a philandering ne'er do well who dropped dead at carnival. (BZL35, $15.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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 Silence of the Rain  •  Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza   • MYSTERY  •  A businessman is killed and Inspector Espinosa, an intellectual with a wandering heart, is on the case in this bestselling Brazilian mystery, memorably set in Rio de Janeiro. (BZL61, $17.00)
 		  
The War of the End of the World  •  Mario Vargas Llosa  •  Helen Lane   • LITERATURE  •  An unforgettable historical novel about the rebellion of the lower-class citizens of Canudos, Brazil, in the late 19th century. (BZL18, $17.00)
 		  
 
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