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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $82, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARG27)
 
Insight Guide Argentina  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES
An outstanding overview of the country, featuring hundreds of photographs, great maps, and insightful essays on history, culture and nature. 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, this is a classic memoir of boyhood in the pampas of Argentina. Rich with descriptions of landscapes, birds and nature, Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are enhanced by his own lively curiousity and perceptive observations of the region. (SAM11, $34.95)
  Far Away and Long Ago
Argentina, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Jill Gibian
ANTHOLOGY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES • COMING IN MARCH
These choice stories introduce the landscapes and culture of Argentina, from the Andes to the Pampas, through the eyes of its writers. (ARG97, $14.95)
  Argentina, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Argentina Map  •  Auto Mapa
2008 •  MAP
At a scale of 1:2,000,000 with shaded relief, this double-sided map includes an index and insets of cities and regions. Produced in Argentina, it includes small maps of the Falklands, Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia, Sandwich and South Orkey islands, all with Argentine place names. Two Sides. 39x23 inches. (ARG12, $14.95)
  Argentina Map



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Aconcagua Map  •  Cordee    •  A topographic map at a scale of 1:50,000. (AND41, $13.95)
 
 
Buenos Aires Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A laminated street map of Buenos Aires and surroundings at a scale of 1:15,000. (ARG38, $8.95)
 
 
Cataratas del Iguazu  •  de Dios    •  This foldup, laminated card shows seven maps of the falls, Puerto Iguazu, park and region. (ARG100, $5.95)
 
 
Lake District, Araucania: Argentina & Chile  •  Zagier & Urruty Maps    •  This regional map (1:400,00) covers the mid-section of Chile and Argentina from Bariloche across to Puerto Montt and Temuco. (PAT59, $14.95)
 
 
Bradt Guide Argentina  •  Erin McCloskey   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide in the popular series, with extensive practical details for travel, sightseeing and ex-cursions (ARG67, $24.95)
 
 
Culture Smart! Argentina  •  Robert Hamwee   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (ARG63, $13.35)
 
 
Lonely Planet Buenos Aires  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent practical guide to Buenos Aires with a pullout map and detailed practical information on neighborhoods, shopping, eating, sleeping and day trips out of the city. (ARG10, $18.99)
 
 
Trekking and Climbing in the Andes  •  Val Pitkethly  •  Kate Harper   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact guide to treks and climbs in the Andes, including Torres del Paine, Fitzroy, The Inca Trail, Cordillera Huayhuash and Cotopaxi. (AND34, $20.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
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, $15.95)
 
 
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 History of Argentina  •  Daniel K. Lewis   • HISTORY  •  This brief, scholarly history of Argentina from pre-Columbian times to 2001 focuses closely on the events of the last three decades of the 20th century, including and the legacy of Peron. (ARG86, $20.00)
 
 
Evita, The Real Life of Eva Peron  •  Nicholas Fraser   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A sophisticated biography of Evita, tracing her humble origins to her place as a revered cult figure. Frazer also reveals Peronism and Argentine politics of the 1930s and 1940s. (ARG03, $15.95)
 
 
In Patagonia  •  Bruce Chatwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  A masterpiece of travel, history and adventure, this award-winning book captures the spirit of the land, history, wildlife and people of Patagonia. There's no travel writer as engaging, insightful and just plain wonderful as Bruce Chatwin. (PAT01, $15.00)
 
 
Buenos Aires, Cities of the Imagination  •  Alberto Manguel  •  Jason Wilson   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Wilson evokes the magic of the city as seen through its writers, artists and musicians in this exhilarating and erudite guide. (ARG21, $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)
 
 
Night Flight  •  Antoine de Saint Exupery   • LITERATURE  •  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. (PAT09, $12.00)
 
 
The Buenos Aires Quintet  •  Manuel Vázquez Montalban   • LITERATURE  •  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, $14.00)
 
 
The Honorary Consul  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  Greene swirls passion, ruin, politics and absurd hope in this tale, he called it his favorite, of a bungled kidnapping in Corrientes, a dusty Provincial city on the border with Paraguay. Not even a real diplomat, the whiskey-drinking, broken down Charley Fortnum, a yerba farmer, is one of Greene's great creations. (ARG85, $15.00)
 
 
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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