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	Insight City Guide Rio de Janeiro  •   Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES This eyecatching guidebook features beautiful full-color photographs, illuminating area maps, a separate pullout map, a street atlas and expanded practical information. (BZL60, $16.95)
	Lonely Planet Buenos Aires  •   Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 248 PAGES In its hallmark style, this practical guide to Buenos Aires by Lonely Planet features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and a great deal of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. Most of the book focuses on what to see, do, buy and eat in the city. With color photographs and excellent travel information. (ARG10, $18.99)
	Samba  •  Alma Guillermoprieto TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1991 •  PAPER  • 244 PAGES A memorable account of life and music on the coast of Brazil by the talented and wide-ranging Guillermoprieto, a staff writer at the New Yorker and award-winning journalist. 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)
	Buenos Aires, Cities of the Imagination  •  Alberto Manguel  •  Jason Wilson ANTHOLOGY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 249 PAGES An exhilarating, erudite guide to Buenos Aires as it has been portrayed by writers, poets and thinkers. Divided geographically, it is a cultural history of the city, its people and character. Wilson quotes writers, internationally famous and locally known, who conjure the geography and mood of the city from its buses and historic rattletrap subway to the cafes, tango, food and smells, and architecture. There's hardly a street corner, building or park that doesn't have literary associations brought forth in this guide. (ARG21, $15.00)
	Travels in a Thin Country, A Journey through Chile  •  Sara Wheeler TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES An inspired writer, British author Sarah Wheeler deploys her wit, intelligence and powerful investigative skills on the Republic of Chile, where she traveled in 1991. Excellent reading. (CHI06, $15.00)
	South America Map  •   ITMB 2010 •  MAP A colorful topographic map of the continent at a scale of 1:4,000,000. Two Sides. 39 X 53 inches. (SAM13, $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)
	Rio de Janeiro Map  •   ITMB    •  A laminated road map of Rio de Janeiro at a scale of 1:13,000. (BZL25, $8.95)
	Santiago Map  •   ITMB    •  A travel map of Santiago, shown at a scale of 1:12,500. (CHI34, $8.95)
	Insight Guide Argentina  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handsome guide is a profusely illustrated overview of the country, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture. With hundreds of photos and excellent maps. (ARG02, $23.99)
	Insight Guide Brazil  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A profusely illustrated overview of the country, this guide features concise essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture. With hundreds of photos and maps. (BZL01, $22.99)
	Insight Guide Chile  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This glossy guide provides a full-color introduction by a team of experts to the land, people, history and attractions of Chile. Brief background essays highlight important topics; with many local and regional maps. (CHI03, $23.99)
	Say It in Portuguese, Brazilian Usage  •  Alexander Prista  •  Francisco Da Costa   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy, palm-size phrasebook for travelers with 1,100 useful words and expressions. It provides the English phrase, Portuguese equivalent and transliteration. (BZL37, $4.95)
	The Authentic Bars, Cafes and Restaurants of Buenos Aires  •  Gabriela Kogan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Kogan's great tips on where to eat, drink and dance the tango all night, including a map and a glossary of Argentine food. (ARG84, $14.95)
	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)
	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)
	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 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)
	Rough Guide Music Astor Piazzolla  •  Astor Piazzolla  •   Rough Guide World Music   • MUSIC  •  Practically a soundtrack to Buenos Aires, this superb anthology by the modernist maestro of tango includes the soulful Vuelvo al Sur. (ARG60, $14.95)
	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, $16.00)
	Brazilian Adventure  •  Peter Fleming   • EXPLORATION  •  A classic and very entertaining account of a 3,000-mile quest through the Amazon in search of a missing English colonel, first published in 1933. (AMZ55, $16.95)
	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)
	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)
	Travelers' Tales Brazil  •  Annette Haddad   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A collection of stories, articles and excerpts on Brazil -- an excellent introduction to the people, culture and traditions of the country as seen through the eyes of modern writers. (BZL06, $18.95)
	Argentina, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Jill Gibian   • ANTHOLOGY • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  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)
	Chile, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Katherine Silver   • ANTHOLOGY  •  These choice stories introduce both the country and a host of contemporary writers. (CHI38, $14.95)
	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)
	Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien  •  Brian Winter   • LITERATURE  •  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)
	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  •     • 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 House of the Spirits  •  Isabel Allende  •  Magda Bogin   • LITERATURE  •  A compulsively readable novel chronicling real and imagined events surrounding the extended Trueba clan from the turn of the 20th century to 1973, much in the spirit of One Hundred Years of Solitude. (CHI02, $7.99)
	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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