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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/TT22283. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 4 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARG30) |
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The History of Argentina
• Daniel K. Lewis
HISTORY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 214 PAGES
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 enduring legacy of Peron.
(ARG86, $20.00) |
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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) |
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Argentina, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Jill Gibian
LITERATURE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
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) |
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Northern Argentina, Buenos Aires Map
• ITMB
2008 •
MAP
This handy map includes both a detailed street plan of Buenos Aires and, on the reverse, northern Argentina and Chile from Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Santiago north to Antofogasta, Jujuy, Salta and Iguazu at a scale of 1:2,200,000. One Side. 27 X 39 inches.
(ARG96, $12.95) |
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Also Recommended
Bradt Guide Argentina
• Erin McCloskey
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the popular series, with extensive practical details for travel, sightseeing and ex-cursions
(ARG67, $27.99)
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Culture Smart! Argentina
• Robert Hamwee
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(ARG63, $9.95)
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The World Atlas of Wine
• Hugh Johnson
• Jancis Robinson
• FOOD
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Not just an authoritative guide, this stunning world atlas includes hundreds of photographs and illuminating local and regional maps.
(GEN244, $50.00)
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Estancias: The Great Houses and Ranches of Argentina
• Maria Saenz Quesada
• Xavier Verstraeten
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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Tango, The Art History of Love
• Robert Farris Thompson
• HISTORY
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A probing cultural history of the tango, its working class origins in 19th-century Buenos Aires and Afro-Argentine roots.
(ARG56, $17.00)
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Tango: the Dance, the Song, the Story
• Simon Collier
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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Evita, The Real Life of Eva Peron
• Nicholas Fraser
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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Far Away and Long Ago
• W.H. Hudson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are rich with descriptions of the landscapes, birds and nature of Argentina.
(SAM11, $34.95)
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Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings
• Jorge Borges
• LITERATURE
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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, $15.95)
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The Buenos Aires Quintet
• Manuel Vazquez Montalban
• LITERATURE
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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)
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The Honorary Consul
• Graham Greene
• LITERATURE
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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, $16.00)
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Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica
• Martin D. la Pena
• Maurice Rumboll
• FIELD GUIDE
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With color plates, range maps and brief descriptions, this is a compact regional guide.
(SAM12, $29.95)
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