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Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica

Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica


by Martin D. la Pena | Maurice Rumboll

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

With color plates, range maps and brief descriptions, this is a compact regional guide. (SAM12, $29.95)

Blow-Up and Other Stories

Blow-Up and Other Stories


by Julio Cortazar

  • LITERATURE
  • 1985
  • PAPER
  • 277 PAGES

Surreal stories from one of the great masters of Latin American short fiction. More Argentine in sensibility than setting. (ARG20, $15.00)

Buenos Aires Affair

Buenos Aires Affair


by Manuel Puig

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 220 PAGES

Puig's inventive, over-the-top tale of Gladys Hebe D'Onofrio and Leopoldo Druscovich. (ARG107, $13.95)

The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club

The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club


by Jessica Morrison

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

In this engaging debut novel, Cassie Moore learns the hard way that life doesn't always go according to plan. A six-month visit to Buenos Aires proves liberating when she accepts that staying on track isn't so simple and that sometimes life--and love--defies her best-laid plans. (ARG72, $20.99)

Che's Route, Ernesto Guevara's Trip across South America


by de Dios

  • 2004
  • MAP

This double-sided laminated map and guide, produced in Buenos Aires in English, shows young Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado's trip from Buenos Aires through Bolivia, Peru and the Amazon. (ARG53, $8.95)

Circle of Love Over Death, Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo


by Matilde Mellibovsky

  • HISTORY
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 250 PAGES

Startling testimonies of mothers who lost their children to torture, death or "disappearance" during Argentina's "Dirty War." (ARG29, $14.95)

Culture Smart! Argentina

Culture Smart! Argentina


by Robert Hamwee

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 168 PAGES

A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (ARG63, $9.95)

Eyewitness Top 10 Buenos Aires


by Inc. Dorling Kindersley

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES

A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions. (ARG92, $14.00)

Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism

Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism


by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A classic 19th Century essay on the reigning dictator, his rise to power, and the corresponding currents of barbarism in Argentine history and culture. (ARG18, $16.00)

Far Away and Long Ago

Far Away and Long Ago


by W.H. Hudson

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 338 PAGES

Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are rich with descriptions of the landscapes, birds and nature of Argentina. (SAM11, $34.95)

Frommer's Argentina

Frommer's Argentina


by Haas Mroue | Kristina Schreck | Michael Luongo

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

Featuring authoritative, opinionated reviews on where to go, sleep and eat by enthusiasts. (ARG58, $22.99)

Frommer's Buenos Aires Day by Day


by Neil E Schlecht

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 182 PAGES

A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food to hotels, neighborhoods and shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (ARG111, $12.99)

Hedonist's Guide to Buenos Aires

Hedonist's Guide to Buenos Aires


by Charles Froggatt

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2007
  • HARD COVER
  • 200 PAGES

A guide to the vibrant city, with comprehensive listings of accommodations, restaurants and bars. (ARG76, $18.95)

Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance

Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance


by Lloyd Jones

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 276 PAGES

Dancing between New Zealand and Buenos Aires and ranging over decades, tango is the leitmotif of this earlier novel by Lloyd Jones, published here for the first time, author of Mister Pip. Like Mr. Pip, this compact, seductive novel concerns the power of storytelling. (NZL101, $12.00)

Hopscotch


by Julio Cortazar

  • LITERATURE
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 564 PAGES

When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires. (ARG93, $17.00)

Idle Days in Patagonia

Idle Days in Patagonia


by W.H. Hudson

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 155 PAGES

A handsome reprint of Hudson's classic 1893 account of life, nature and adventure in southern South America, with paintings and drawings by Alfred Hartley and J. Smit. (PAT27, $22.00)

Insight Guide Argentina

Insight Guide Argentina


by Insight Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

This profusely illustrated guide features concise essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture. With hundreds of photos and excellent maps. (ARG02, $23.99)

Intersecting Tango, Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930


by Adriana J. Bergero

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 376 PAGES

"Intersecting Tango" explores the sweeping changes in Buenos Aires, occurring during 1900-1930, which transformed it into a modern, cosmopolitan city. (ARG79, $27.95)

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman


by Manuel Puig

  • LITERATURE
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 281 PAGES

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, $15.00)

A Lexicon of Terror, Argentina and the Legacies of Torture


by Marguerite Feitlowitz

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 302 PAGES

A scholarly, emotional account of Argentina's "Dirty War, " the product of extensive interviews with victims, survivors and citizens. (ARG27, $19.95)

Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830

Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830


by Robert Harvey

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 561 PAGES

Focused on the heroism and derring-do of seven legendary men, Harvey tells the story of Simon Bolivar, General Jose de San Martin and other greats in the fight for independence. (SAM35, $18.95)

Moon Handbook Argentina

Moon Handbook Argentina


by Wayne Bernhardson

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 650 PAGES

A comprehensive guide in the Moon series. (ARG43, $21.95)

Musicians and Watchmakers


by Alicia Steimberg

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES

The worldly and wise, semi-autobiographical tale of coming-of-age in 1940s Buenos Aires. (ARG46, $15.00)

The Naturalist In La Plata

The Naturalist In La Plata


by W.H. Hudson

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 394 PAGES

A loving, leisurely natural history of Hudson's adopted homeland. (ARG24, $8.95)

Night Flight

Night Flight


by Antoine de Saint Exupery

  • LITERATURE
  • 1986
  • PAPER
  • 87 PAGES

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 Old Patagonian Express

The Old Patagonian Express


by Paul Theroux

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 404 PAGES

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)

Purgatory, A Novel


by Tomas Eloy Martinez

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

This love story, ghost story and brilliant political allegory -- the great Argentinean novelist's final book before his death in 2010 -- centers around the mysterious reappearance of a man thought to have been one of many disappeared by the military regime 30 years prior. (ARG116, $17.00)

The Purple Land


by W.H. Hudson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

Originally published in 1885, Hudson's first novel stars not coincidentally, a young Englishman at large in South America. The story of romance and adventure unfolds against the backdrop of political unrest in 19th-century Uruguay. (SAM58, $22.95)

Southern Night Sky

Southern Night Sky


by Pocket Naturalist

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2001
  • PLASTIC CARD

A glow in the dark laminated card showing the most conspicuous stars, constellations and celestial objects of the Southern Hemisphere. (SCI30, $5.95)

Spectacular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space In Buenos Aires 1955-1973


by Laura Podalsky

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 230 PAGES

A social geography and cultural history of Buenos Aires. (ARG44, $24.95)

Tango Buenos Aires Map Guide


by de Dios

  • 2003
  • MAP

This double-sided laminated map, produced in Buenos Aires in English, includes three suggested Tango-themed walking tours, attractions, a brief history of tango and essential discography. (ARG50, $8.95)

Tango, The Art History of Love

Tango, The Art History of Love


by Robert Farris Thompson

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

A probing cultural history of the tango, its working class origins in 19th-century Buenos Aires and Afro-Argentine roots. (ARG56, $17.00)

Traveling with Che Guevara, The Making of a Revolutionary

Traveling with Che Guevara, The Making of a Revolutionary


by Alberto Granado | Lucia Alvarez de Toledo

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

Granado's classic account of his travels with Che Guevara via motorbike through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. (SAM68, $14.95)

Wallpaper City Guide Buenos Aires

Wallpaper City Guide Buenos Aires


by Wallpaper Magazine

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 120 PAGES

A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations. (ARG65, $9.95)

Buenos Aires Map Guide

Buenos Aires Map Guide


by de Dios

  • MAP

This double-sided laminated map, produced in Buenos Aires in English, includes museums, walking tours, restaurants and shopping. (ARG49, $8.95)

Moon Handbook Buenos Aires

Moon Handbook Buenos Aires


by Wayne Bernhardson

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 369 PAGES

A practical guide in the popular series. (ARG77, $18.95)

The Invention of Argentina

The Invention of Argentina


by Nicolas Shumway

  • HISTORY
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

An illuminating intellectual history of Argentina, this book brings the founding fathers of the republic to life, deftly portraying the revolution against Spain in 1810 and its immediate aftermath. (ARG08, $29.95)

 

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