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501 Spanish Verbs
• Christopher Kendris
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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The perennial favorite among students of Spanish.
(GEN134, $16.99)
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Animal, The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
• Don E. Wilson
• David Burnie
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A giant reference to wildlife throughout the world, compiled by the Smithsonian and a group of zoologists. From insects, marine life and amphibians to birds and mammals, it runs the gamut.
(BST80, $25.00)
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Ariel
• Carlos Fuentes
• José Enrique Rodó
• HISTORY
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The classic turn of the century essay on culture, aesthetics and democracy in Latin America and the world..
(ARG16, $18.95)
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Bel Canto
• Ann Patchett
• LITERATURE
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An utterly absorbing novel where a star-stuued group of dignitaries weather a month-long seige by revolutionarries in a country much like Peru.
(SAM46, $13.95)
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Blue at the Mizzen
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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In this, the last exciting episode of the series, Captain Aubrey's crew sails to South America to help Chile gain independence from Spain.
(CHI33, $14.95)
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Born in Blood and Fire, A Concise History of Latin America
• John Charles Chasteen
• HISTORY
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A vivid, impressionistic textbook, covering 400 years of Latin America in just over 300 pages.
(SAM38, $39.25)
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Brazil Bolivia Paraguay Uruguay Map
• Reise & Verkehrsverlag
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A colorful, folded map of Atlantic South America stretching from the northern border of Brazil to Buenos Aires, at a scale of 1:4,000,000.
(SAM39, $15.95)
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The Buried Mirror
• Carlos Fuentes
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A fascinating, illustrated survey of Latin American culture and history by the great Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. With hundreds of color illustrations.
(SPN71, $29.95)
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Century of the Wind (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 3)
• Cedric Belfrage
• Eduardo Galeano
• HISTORY
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Brief, lyrical vignettes and anecdotes from the century now ending. A crash course in the modern history of the New World.
(CAM66, $15.95)
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Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
• Tina Rosenberg
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A lively, penetrating study of what makes a society turn violent and the peculiar logic of cruelty.
(SAM21, $17.00)
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Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
• Peter Matthiessen
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del Fuego.
(SAM02, $16.00)
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Conquest of the Incas
• John Hemming
• HISTORY
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A masterful, prize-winning history of the Inca struggle against the Spanish invasion. This classic account, by one of the best writers on South America, brings together wide-ranging scholarly material in the interests of telling a good story.
(AND04, $25.00)
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Divided Soul, A Journey Through the Secular and Religious in Hispanic Life
• David Alan Harvey
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A culmination of a photographer's two decade quest to capture the global Hispanic spirit on film.
(SPN191, $49.95)
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Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 2)
• Cedric Belfrage
• Eduardo Galeano
• HISTORY
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Brief, lyrical vignettes and anecdotes from the 1700s through the independence wars of the 19th Century. A crash course in the history of the New World.
(SAM19, $15.95)
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The Far Side of the World
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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O'Brian takes readers on an adventure around Cape Horn in this enthralling Aubrey and Maturin tale, featuring evocative descriptions of the wildlife of Patagonia and Galapagos and a vivid portrait of Nelson's British Navy.
(SAM01, $13.95)
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Fodor's South America
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent all-around guide to the attractions, cultures and natural history of South America
(SAM22, $27.95)
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Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians
• Richard Darwin Keynes
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An account of the Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin's adventures and scientific discoveries.
(SAM51, $52.00)
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The Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an International Life and Career
• Elizabeth Kruempelmann
• REFERENCE
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(GEN248, $16.95)
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A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
• Steven Hilty
• William Brown
• FIELD GUIDE
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A classic South American bird guide with good coverage of the upper Amazon basin. It illustrates 1,700 species -- nearly half of all the species of South America.
(FG14, $67.50)
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A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela
• Steven Hilty
• Guy Tudor
• J.A. Gwynne
• FIELD GUIDE
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The classic South American bird guide, revised and expanded by Steve Hilty. A bit hefty for a field guide at just over 4 pounds, but still an essential reference to over 1,400 bird species. Travelers in the Brazilian Amazon will find it especially useful.
(FG13, $59.50)
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Guyana Map
• ITMB
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A colorful, detailed travel map of Guayana.
(SAM05, $10.95)
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Insight Guide Venezuela
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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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 dozens of excellent maps.
(VNZ01, $23.95)
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Manuel Puig
• LITERATURE
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The psychological story of a friendship between two Argentinean prisoners jailed for their subversive activity: Molina, a transgendered homosexual and Valentin, a socialist revolutionary.
(ARG28, $13.95)
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Latin American Art
• John F. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A popular survey of the arts in Latin America.
(SAM33, $29.95)
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Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century
• Edward J. Sullivan
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A comprehensive survey of modern Latin American art, organized by country.
(ART31, $69.95)
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Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830
• Robert Harvey
• HISTORY
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An epic history of colonial Latin America, focused on the heroism and derring-do of seven legendary men, including Simon Bolivar and General Jose de San Martin, in the fight for independence from Spain.
(SAM35, $18.95)
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Lonely Planet Argentina
• Lonely Planet
• Danny Palmerlee
• GUIDEBOOK
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In its hallmark style, this practical guide to Argentina by Lonely Planet features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accomodations and sightseeing.
(ARG11, $25.99)
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Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, detailed practical guide to traveling in South America.
(SAM44, $33.99)
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Lonely Planet Venezuela
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, practical travel guide in the popular series.
(VNZ03, $24.99)
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Love in the Time of Cholera
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Edith Grossman
• LITERATURE
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A glorious tale of great love consummated after 50 years, nine months and four days, memorably set in a dusty 19th-century town on the Caribbean coast of Columbia.
(SAM26, $14.00)
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Magical Sites, Women Travelers in 19th Century Latin America
• Marjorie Agosin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A lively treasury of accounts written by women --from French nuns to upper-crust Europeans --who traveled across Latin America in the 19th century .
(SAM29, $17.00)
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
• Ann Wright
• Ernesto Che Guevara
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The adventures of the pre-revolutionary 23-year-old Ernesto "Che" Guevara, as he wanders through South America in 1952 with his companion Alberto Granado.
(SAM20, $14.95)
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A Neotropical Companion
• J.C. Kricher
• Mark Plotkin
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A tropical primer aimed at the motivated general reader. From plants and animals to birds and bugs, it's all here in this wonderfully written primer on the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America.
(GPS11, $29.95)
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Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide
• L.H. Emmons
• FIELD GUIDE
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An illustrated guide to the mammals of the New World tropics, compact enough to slip into your daypack, with 29 color plates illustrating more than 200 species.
(GPS12, $32.50)
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Night Flight
• Antoine de Saint Exupery
• LITERATURE
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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)
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No Apparent Danger
• Victoria Bruce
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An investigation of two eruptions in Colombia that turned deadly because of human folly and hubris.
(SAM50, $13.95)
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Northern South America Map
• Reise & Verkehrsverlag
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A map of the northern half of South America, at a scale of 1:4,000,000.
(SAM31, $15.95)
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The Old Patagonian Express
• Paul Theroux
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Combining history, anecdote and acutely observed detail on people and place, Theroux begins his journey on a Boston subway car and works his way south via rail, plane and truck to the Patagonian railroad in this enthralling narrative.
(PAT08, $15.95)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• LITERATURE
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The breathtaking, life-altering, much-celebrated tale of life and love on most everyone's list of the greatest books of all time, ours included.
(SAM27, $14.00)
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
• Eduardo Galeano
• Cedric Belfrage
• HISTORY
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The most wrenchingly beautiful history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America ever written.
(AND26, $18.00)
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Personal Narrative
• Alexander von Humboldt
• EXPLORATION
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This is the book that Darwin took on his voyage around the world -- a classic account of naturalist and explorer Humboldt's 18th-century discoveries in South America.
(SAM08, $17.00)
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Road Fever, A High Speed Travelogue
• Tim Cahill
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An exhiliarating ride along with Cahill from the southernmost tip of South America to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in only 23 days.
(SAM17, $14.95)
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The Settlement of the Americas, A New Prehistory
• Thomas D. Dillehy
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A well received, engaging survey of new theories on the peopling of the Americas; controversial yet convincing, Dillehy focuses his arguments around his findings at Monte Verde in Chile.
(SAM43, $22.00)
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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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Smithsonian Handbooks, Mammals
• Juliet Clutton-Brock
• Don E. Wilson
• FIELD GUIDE
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This sturdy field guide colorfully describes 500 of the world's mammals.
(BST76, $20.00)
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South America Map
• ITMB
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A colorful topographic map of the entire continent at a scale of 1:4,000,000.
(SAM13, $13.95)
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South America Northwest Map
• ITMB
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A map of the northwest part of the continent, including Panama.
(SAM49, $8.95)
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South America, The Andes Map
• Nelles
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A double-sided map covering the full range of the Andes and Pacific coast of South America.
(SAM47, $10.95)
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Southern South America Map
• ITMB
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A handsome physical map showing the southern half of South America. At a scale of 1:2,800,000.
(SAM04, $9.95)
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Suriname Map
• ITMB
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A colorful, detailed travel map of Surinam.
(SAM06, $10.95)
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Tropical Nature
• Adrian Forsyth
• Ken Miyata
• NATURAL HISTORY
• FAVORITE
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A lively, lucid portrait of the rain forest as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its 17 marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants and animals of the Central and South American rainforest.
(GPS13, $14.00)
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Tschiffely's Ride
• Aime Tschiffely
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The classic, richly told tale of people, places and adventures from Buenos Aires to Washington D.C. on horseback.
(SAM45, $24.95)
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Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, A Bilingual Anthology
• Stephen Tapscott
• LITERATURE
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A scholarly anthology of 400 poems, presented in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) and English. Selections include poems from Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges.
(SAM28, $27.95)
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The University of Chicago Dictionary, Spanish-English/English-Spanish
• Carlos Castillo
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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The well-regarded concise dictionary of words and phrases for today's language. Fifth Edition.
(SPN118, $11.00)
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Voyage of the Beagle
• Charles Darwin
• EXPLORATION
• BEST SELLER
• FAVORITE
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The wide-eyed tale of a young man on a five-year voyage that changed his life -- and our way of thinking about the world. First published in 1839, Darwin's South American chapters are still an outstanding introduction to the wildlife and allure of the continent.
(GPS02, $12.95)
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Where to Watch Birds in South America
• Nigel Wheatley
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A compact practical guide to birdwatching sites throughout South America, including checklists.
(SAM40, $24.95)
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