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Bradt Guide Chile
• Tim Burford
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide from the popular Bradt series.
(CHI59, $24.95)
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The Captain's Verses, The Love Poems
• Pablo Neruda
• Donald D. Walsh
• LITERATURE
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A bilingual edition of Neruda's subtle and sweet love poems, published in 2004 to coincide with his centennial.
(CHI60, $12.95)
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Conquistadors
• Michael Wood
• HISTORY
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A lively, illustrated account of the Spanish conquest of the New World by the intrepid writer-filmmaker Michael Wood,
(SAM48, $22.95)
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific
• H. Douglas Pratt
• FIELD GUIDE
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An outstanding field guide with chapters on the islands and habitats, superb color plates and a checklist of birds by island group.
(HWI32, $45.00)
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Frommer's Chile & Easter Island
• Stephan Kueffner
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions.
(CHI76, $22.99)
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Insight Guide Chile
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This glossy guide is a full-color introduction by a team of experts to the land, people, history and attractions of Chile. Brief background essays highlight important topics and the many local and regional maps are outstanding.
(CHI03, $23.95)
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The Last Time Around Cape Horn, The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
• William F. Stark
• Peter Stark
• HISTORY
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The unstinting memoir of the then 22-year-old rookie aboard the famous windjammer Pamir.
(PAT69, $13.00)
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Pacific Journeys
• Peter Hendrie
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A striking portfolio of 330 color photographs of the people, nature and landscape of the region, Hendrie's gorgeous book includes images from his many journeys to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, to Tahiti and the Marquesas, Tonga, Fiji, Easter Island and Hawaii over the last 20 years.
(PAC183, $45.00)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Spanish
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Spanish, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(SPN257, $19.95)
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Residence on Earth
• Pablo Neruda
• Donald D. Walsh
• Jim Harrison
• LITERATURE
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A classic anthology in a bilingual edition, re-published in 2004 to coincide with the centennial of the great poet's birth.
(CHI61, $14.95)
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
• Matthew Restall
• HISTORY
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In this provocative book, Restall tackles Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro and the misconceptions surrounding them. The conquisadores most certainly did not conquer the Americas with a handful of men, nor were they received as gods.
(SAM52, $16.95)
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The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World
• Chris Scarre
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A comprehensive, illustrated overview of the great monuments of the ancient world and how they were built.
(GEN92, $40.00)
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A Short History of Progress
• Ronald Wright
• HISTORY
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These succint essays, originally presented as a radio broadcast, analyze the rise and fall of great societies, including Maya, Roman, Sumerian, Ancient Chinese and Easter Island.
(WLD62, $14.95)
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Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
• Ronald Wright
• HISTORY
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A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account.
(NAM20, $17.00)
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Three Weeks With My Brother
• Micah Sparks
• Nicholas Sparks
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This remarkable account of family, friendship and travel takes as its point of departure a three-week around the world odyssey by private jet.
(TVL34, $13.99)
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Traveling with Che Guevara, The Making of a Revolutionary
• Alberto Granado
• Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Granado's classic account of his travels with Che Guevara via motorbike through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela.
(SAM68, $14.95)
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Yanomami, The Fierce Controversy and What We Might Learn from It
• Robert Borofsky
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A study of the controversy surrounding anthropological studies of the Yanomami.
(SAM67, $22.95)
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