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These 3 items are available for $39, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSAM165)

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, Travels Through Paraguay  •  John Gimlette TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 362 PAGES No shrinking violet, English lawyer and frequent South American traveler John Gimlette is an entertaining, insightful guide to Paraguay and its checkered history. He captures the eccentricities, horrors and allure of the place in memorable detail. (SAM70, $14.95)
The News From Paraguay, A Novel  •  Lily Tuck LITERATURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES The fully realized tale of a power-hungry young Irish woman Elisa Lynch and her adventures in 19th-century Paraguay. Based on real people and events, Tuck peoples her novel with gauchos and other colorful characters. The love story (and a love story it is) unfolds against the backdrop of a psychopathic Francisco Solano Lopez and his disastrous war between Paraguay and her neighbors. Ms. Lynch is the the subject of another recent novel (The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch) and two biogaphies: The Empress of South America and The Shadows of Elisa Lynch, How a Nineteenth Century Irish Courtesan Became the Most Powerful Woman in Paraguay. (SAM69, $13.95)
Paraguay Map MAP A colorful travel map of Paraguay at a scale of 1:800,000. (SAM97, $10.95)

Footprint South American Handbook  •  Ben Box   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The classic, comprehensive guide to South America. With a section of full color maps and hundreds of regional and city maps. (SAM25, $34.95)
Insight Guide South America  •  Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This profusely illustrated, comprehensive guide features hundreds of color photographs, excellent maps and insightful essays by experts on the history, art, architecture, and attractions of South America. (SAM24, $24.95)
Mammals of the Neotropics: The Southern Cone, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay  •  John F. Eisenberg  •  Kent H. Redford   • REFERENCE  •  Organized taxonomically, this thorough volume of species accounts includes external measurements, physical descriptions, geographical distribution, and information on their habitats. (SAM14, $60.00)
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians  •  Pierre Clastres  •  Paul Auster   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An ethnographic report of life in a now vanished Paraguayan tribe. (SAM71, $19.95)
Modern Latin America  •  Thomas E. Skidmore  •  Peter Smith   • HISTORY  •  A succinct history of 20th-century Latin America that examines the politics, economy and people of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the Caribbean. (SAM23, $52.95)
The Penguin History of Latin America  •  Edwin Williamson   • HISTORY  •  A political and cultural history, covering 500 years from Spanish conquest through the 1980s. (SAM53, $18.00)
Falling Off the Map, Some Lonely Places of the World  •  Pico Iyer   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A collection of trenchant, witty essays on far-flung places by the marvelous Pico Iyer. It includes his travels to North Korea, Argentina, Cuba, Iceland, Bhutan, Vietnam, Paraguay and Australia. (WLD27, $12.95)
Paradise with Serpents  •  Richard Carver   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • COMING IN JULY  •  A rollicking tale by a fine writer and journalist, Carver, with his fine tuned sense of the absurd, exposes the hypocrisy, chaos and eccentricity of modern Paraguay and its checkered history. (SAM125, $29.95)
The Explorers of South America  •  Edward Goodman   • EXPLORATION  •  A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. (SAM10, $24.95)
I, the Supreme  •  Augusto Roa Bastos  •  Helen Lane   • LITERATURE  •  An accomplished novel set in Paraguay during the dictatorship of Gaspar Francia. (SAM72, $13.95)
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch  •  Anne Enright   • LITERATURE  •  A richly detailed novel inspired by the love between Elisa Lynch and dictator Francisco Solano Lopez in 19th-century Paraguay. (SAM73, $13.00)
The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories  •  Julio Ortega  •  Carlos Fuentes   • LITERATURE  •  A well-chosen selection of contemporary short stories by Latin American writers. (SAM32, $14.95)
The Pantanal: Understanding and Preserving the World's Largest Wetland  •  Frederick A. Swarts   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The proceedings of an international conference on conservation in the Pantanal. The 29 scholarly papers include presentations on the region's geology, economic development and outlook for the future. With tables, maps, charts, mostly black-and-white photo-graphs. (BZL23, $19.95)
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)