BUENOS AIRES More Books Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica  •  Martin D. la Pena  •  Maurice Rumboll FIELD GUIDE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES A handsome, compact guide to all 1,140 bird species of Southern South America and Antarctica, including Patagonia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and much of Brazil. With brief description, range map, identification features and habitat for each species. (SAM12, $29.95)   Blow-Up and Other Stories  •  Julio Cortazar LITERATURE •  1985 •  PAPER  • 277 PAGES In one of these short stories a man encounters his younger self on a Paris bus, follows him home and befriends him--not a child who reminds him of himself, mind you, but one who is reenacting his own childhood with complete precision. In another story a man reading a mystery gradually realizes that he himself is the victim in the story. There are also existential encounters with expressionless, reptilian creatures at the zoo. Cortazar is one of the great masters of Latin American short fiction, in every sense a peer of Borges and García Marquez. (ARG20, $15.00)   Buenos Aires Affair  •  Manuel Puig LITERATURE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 220 PAGES This third bravura performace by Puig (Heartbreak Tango) is subtitled A Detective Story but, like all of Puig's books, is really a love story. It follows the exploits of Gladys Hebe D'Onofrio and Leopoldo Druscovich. (ARG107, $13.95)   The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club  •  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  •  de Dios 2004 •  MAP This double-sided laminated map and guide, produced in Buenos Aires in English, shows the route of young Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado's trip from Buenos Aires through Bolivia, Peru and the Amazon. It's an companion to Motorcycle Diaries. Two Sides. 26x18 inches. (ARG53, $8.95)   Circle of Love Over Death, Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo  •  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." Mellibovsky had lost her own child (an activist) to the conflict, and unites the many grieving, but often hopeful voices in their goal to achieve social justice. During this black period, the ruiling military junta tortured and killed thousands of its own citizens they believed subversive to national security (ARG29, $14.95)   Culture Smart! Argentina  •  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  •  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  •  Domingo Faustino Sarmiento HISTORY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES This 19th Century essay uses the story of the reigning dictator Facundo and the bloody civil wars to set up an opposition between European "Civilization" and native "Barbarism." It's a chronicle of the various conflicts associated with Facundo and his generals' rise to power and a fascinating glimpse of a pervasive mindset. (ARG18, $17.00)   Far Away and Long Ago  •  W.H. Hudson BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2006 •  PAPER  • 338 PAGES Written in 1917, Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are enhanced by his own lively curiosity and observations of the landscapes, birds and nature of Argentina. (SAM11, $34.95)   Frommer's Argentina  •  Haas Mroue  •  Kristina Schreck  •  Michael Luongo GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES With chapters on the best of, planning your trip and a region-by-region survey of attractions, this practical guide features authoritative, opinionated reviews. (ARG58, $22.99)   Frommer's Buenos Aires Day by Day  •  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  •  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  •  Lloyd Jones LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 276 PAGES From rural New Zealand at the end of World War I to the present day, two separate love stories resonate across three generations, as two very different couples are brought together by their obsession with the seductive power of the tango. By the author of the critically acclaimed Mr. Pip, this earlier novel was first published in New Zealand in 2002. (NZL101, $12.00)   Hopscotch  •  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  •  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. It's a beguiling tale, written long after the fact, combining history and nature, reflection, and incident. With paintings and drawings by Alfred Hartley and J. Smit. (PAT27, $22.00)   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)   Intersecting Tango, Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930  •  Adriana J. Bergero CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2008 •  PAPER  • 376 PAGES In the early part of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires erupted from its colonial past as a city in its own right, expressing a unique and vibrant cultural identity. "Intersecting Tango" engages the city at this key moment, exploring the sweeping changes of 1900-1930 to capture this culture in motion through which Buenos Aires transformed itself into a modern, cosmopolitan city. (ARG79, $27.95)   Kiss of the Spider Woman  •  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. The intense exchange of dialogue and Molina's dramatizations of movie scenes in the prison cell build up to a passionate relationship and ironic ending. (ARG28, $15.00)   A Lexicon of Terror, Argentina and the Legacies of Torture  •  Marguerite Feitlowitz CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1999 •  PAPER  • 302 PAGES Harvard professor Feitlowitz interviewed Argentines from all sectors of society for this intensive study of the "Dirty War," which claimed 30,000 victims from 1976-1983. The cumulative impact of the testimony the people who were arrested, imprisoned or "gone missing" by the military is profound. A wordsmith by trade, the author looks at how activists, bystanders, victims and family members modified language to discuss the unimaginable horrors of this time. (ARG27, $19.95)   Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830  •  Robert Harvey HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 561 PAGES An epic history of colonial Latin America, focused on the heroism and derring-do of seven legendary men in the fight for independence from Spain, including the larger-than-life figures of Venezuela's Simon Bolivar, Argentine hero General Jose de San Martin, and Chile's Bernardo O'Higgins. Harvey, a contributor to the Economist, draws on an impressive range of original sources in constructing this engaging tale. (SAM35, $18.95)   Moon Handbook Argentina  •  Wayne Bernhardson GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 650 PAGES A comprehensive guide in the popular series. (ARG43, $21.95)   Musicians and Watchmakers  •  Alicia Steimberg LITERATURE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES The worldly and wise, semi-autobiographical tale of coming-of-age in 1940s Buenos Aires. The protagonist, like the author, is Alicia Steimberg. Among the pleasures of the novella are Steimberg's deft portraits of a decidedly eccentric extended family, including a grandmother born in Kiev, unstable mother, a stable of aunts and atheist grandfather. The tale unfolds against the backdrop of life in Peronist Argentina. Originally published in 1972. The talented Steimberg is also the author of Call Me Magdalena, set at an estancia. (ARG46, $15.00)   The Naturalist In La Plata  •  W.H. Hudson NATURAL HISTORY •  1990 •  PAPER  • 394 PAGES Subtitled "The Classic Study of the Argentinean Pampas," this book is a loving, leisurely natural history of Hudson's adopted homeland. (ARG24, $8.95)   Night Flight  •  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. Saint Exupery pioneered the first regular postal routes in South America and the Sahara in the 1920s. (PAT09, $12.00)   The Old Patagonian Express  •  Paul Theroux TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 404 PAGES A delightful narrative of Paul Theroux's journey from Boston to Patagonia by rail, plane and truck. He starts out aboard the subway in Boston -- and ends up many months later at the end of the world, a bit worse for the wear. Along the way he encounters the elderly, nearly blind author Jorge Luis Borges and a cast of other fascinating characters. (PAT08, $15.95)   Purgatory, A Novel  •  Tomas Eloy Martinez LITERATURE •  2011 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES The late, great Tomas Eloy Martinez was forced to flee Argentina in 1975. This love story, ghost story and political allegory -- the 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: "Simon Cardosa had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday." Cardosa reappears in contemporary New Jersey, but this is a novel about Argentina grappling with its past. (ARG116, $17.00)   The Purple Land  •  W.H. Hudson LITERATURE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Hudson's first novel starring, 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. Originally published in 1885, this facsimile of the 1904 Three Sirens Press edition includes Keith Henderson's original 30 woodcuts of Uruguayan scenes. Ilan Stavans provides the introduction. Among the many pleasure of this delightfully comic novel is its depiction of the region and its people. Born in Buenos Ares, Hudson wrote a string of novels and memoirs set in South America, most famously, Far Away and Long Ago and Green Mansions. (SAM58, $22.95)   Southern Night Sky  •  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  •  Laura Podalsky ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 230 PAGES A social geography and cultural history of Buenos Aires and its transformation in the two decades after the collapse of the government of Juan Peron. She looks not only at architecture but also the city as represented in film, literature, and popular culture. (ARG44, $26.95)   Tango Buenos Aires Map Guide  •  de Dios 2003 •  MAP This double-sided laminated map, produced in Buenos Aires in English, includes three suggested Tango-themed walking tours, attractions, 20 venues, a brief history of tango from Gardel to Piazolla, and an essential discography. Two Sides. 18x27 inches. (ARG50, $8.95)   Tango, The Art History of Love  •  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. Thompson, an art historian at Yale, looks also at the depiction of the tango in literature, music, and dance. He covers singer Carlos Gardel, composer Astor Piazzolla and other personalities in the history of the tango. Illustrated. (ARG56, $17.00)   Traveling with Che Guevara, The Making of a Revolutionary  •  Alberto Granado  •  Lucia Alvarez de Toledo TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES This is Alberto Granado's companion book to Che Guevara's well-known Motorcycle Diaries (and one of the sources for the movie). It's Granado's own account of travels with Che via motorbike through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. (SAM68, $14.95)   Wallpaper City Guide Buenos Aires  •  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  •  de Dios MAP This double-sided laminated map, produced in Buenos Aires in English, includes attractions, museums, walking tours, restaurants and shopping. With six suggested walking tours, a subway map and suggestions for essential things to do in a weekend. Two Sides. 18x27 inches. (ARG49, $8.95)   Moon Handbook Buenos Aires  •  Wayne Bernhardson GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 369 PAGES A practical guide in the popular series. (ARG77, $18.95)   The Invention of Argentina  •  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. The author, who teaches Spanish at Yale, argues that the basic conflict between those who sought a European future for the nation and the rough-and-ready "caudillos" explains a great deal about the state of the nation today. (ARG08, $29.95)
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