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These 5 items are available for $83, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSAM137)

Insight Guide Chile  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 380 PAGES This glossy guide is a full-color introduction to the land, people and history of Chile, written by a team of experts. Brief background essays highlight important topics, and there is some practical travel information interspersed throughout. (CHI03, $23.95)
Insight Guide Argentina  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 385 PAGES An outstanding overview of the country, featuring hundreds of photographs, great maps, and insightful essays on history, culture and nature. It includes a substantial section on Buenos Aires, along with chapters on Iguazu, the Lake District, Patagonia and other regions. (ARG02, $23.95)
Travels in a Thin Country, a Journey through Chile  •  Sara Wheeler TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES An inspired writer, British author Sarah Wheeler deploys her wit, intelligence and powerful investigative skills on the Republic of Chile, where she traveled in 1991. Excellent reading. (CHI06, $13.95)
Night Flight  •  Antoine de Saint Exupery LITERATURE •  1986 •  PAPER  • 87 PAGES A pilot alone in a storm over the Andes en route from Punta Arenas to Buenos Aires. In this wonderfully evocative novella, based on true-life experience, de Saint Exupery captures the thrill of early flight and the courage of the pilots. De Saint Exupery pioneered the first regular postal routes in South America and the Sahara in the 1920s. (PAT09, $12.00)
Lake District, Araucania: Argentina & Chile  •  Zagier & Urruty Maps 2002 •  MAP A full color traveler's map of mid-section of Chile and Argentina with a focus on the popular region from Bariloche across to Puerto Montt. At a scale of 1:400,000 with roads, relief and attractions. The map covers the towns and parks of northern Patagonia, including Los Arrayanes, Villarrica, Puyehue, Alerce, San Martín de los Andes, Osorno, and Temuco. (PAT59, $14.95)

Chile in Focus  •  Nick Caistor   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Authoritative and up-to-date, this slim guide focuses on the history of Chile, its cultural heritage and the political, environmental and economic challenges of the post-Pinochet era. With maps, photographs and some travel information. (CHI35, $12.95)
Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830  •  Robert Harvey   • HISTORY  •  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)
Soldiers in a Narrow Land, The Pinochet Regime in Chile  •  Mary Helen Spooner   • HISTORY  •  A history of Chile under Pinochet (1973-1988) based on wide-ranging interviews with ordinary people, military men and opposition leaders. It's a balanced account, documenting the censorship and violence but also the appeal of the dictatorship (CHI25, $25.95)
Evita, The Real Life of Eva Peron  •  Nicholas Fraser   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A sophisticated biography of Evita, following her from humble origins to her place as a revered cult figure. It is also a revealing look at Peronism and Argentinian politics of the 1930s and 1940s. (ARG03, $14.95)
Far Away and Long Ago, A Childhood in Argentina  •  W.H. Hudson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • COMING IN SEPTEMBER  •  Originally written in 1917, this is a classic memoir of boyhood in the pampas of Argentina. Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are rich with descriptions of landscapes, birds and nature. (SAM11, $34.95)
In Patagonia  •  Bruce Chatwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  A masterpiece of travel, history and adventure. This award-winning book captures the spirit of the land, history, wildlife and people of Patagonia. There's no travel writer as engaging, insightful and just plain wonderful as Bruce Chatwin. (PAT01, $15.00)
My Invented Country, A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile  •  Isabel Allende   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Novelist Allende ruminates on her upbringing in Chile, interweaving memories of South America with her feelings for the United States, where she has lived since the assassination of her uncle, Chilean president Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973. (CHI52, $13.95)
Blue at the Mizzen  •  Patrick O'Brian   • LITERATURE  •  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)
Five Decades, Poems 1925-1970  •  Pablo Neruda   • LITERATURE  •  A bilingual edition of 138 poems by the great Pablo Neruda, drawn from his entire career. Neruda is the quintessential South American poet: lyrical, engaging, and bristling with life. (CHI10, $15.00)
Imagining Argentina  •  Lawrence Thornton   • LITERATURE  •  A brilliant first novel that captures the hope and spirit of Argentina during the military rule of the late 1970s. This inventive tale focuses on Carlos Rueda and a group of citizens whose relatives disappeared. (ARG01, $15.00)
The House of the Spirits  •  Isabel Allende  •  Magda Bogin   • LITERATURE  •  A compulsively readable novel chronicling real and imagined events surrounding the extended Trueba clan from the turn of the 20th century to 1973, much in the spirit of One Hundred Years of Solitude. (CHI02, $7.99)
Natural Patagonia, Argentina and Chile  •  Marcelo D. Beccaceci   • NATURAL HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  An informative, photographic journey through the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife of Patagonia, featuring 120 color photographs, presented in Spanish and English. (PAT22, $24.95)
Birds of Chile  •  Alvaro Jaramillo   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, comprehensive guide to 473 species in the Princeton Field Guide series, featuring range maps and designed for easy field reference. (CHI50, $29.95)
Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica  •  Martin D. la Pena  •  Maurice Rumboll   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact regional guide with color plates, range maps and brief descriptions. (SAM12, $29.95)