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 The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest JourneyBest Price: $8.43 I bought this book on a whim, not knowing much about Teddy Roosevelt and knowing nothing about... |  Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest OutlawBest Price: $6.95 Once I begin a book I usually finish it, even if it's not that good. But I couldn't finish... |  Birds of Peru (Princeton Field Guides)Best Price: $32.09 I would not suggest this book to someone birding in Peru for the first time - it is missing... |  AliveBest Price: $0.49 It's become a bit of trivial fodder: In 1972, a plane carrying a Uraguayan rugby team and their... |  The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $6.50 I purchased this book intending to get an unbiased view of the Spanish exploration of the New... |
 Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual WorkplaceBest Price: $5.83 Great book. Amazing story. Lot's of good lessons to be learned here. I read it all the way... |  Tree of Rivers: The Story of the AmazonBest Price: $22.20 Well I love reading about the jungle...be it the Amazon or the Congo. I love the diseases...the... |  A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient MayaBest Price: $8.98 Note: Your "helpful" votes are appreciated. Schele and Freidel's book takes you... |  Short Account of the Destruction of the IndiesBest Price: $7.05 This first person account of the aftermath of Columbus and the Spanish is an important read from... |  The Conquest of the IncasBest Price: $15.33 A must read for anybody interested in one of the most amazing events in world history. I... |
 Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press)Best Price: $7.63 I bought this because of an upcoming trip to Machu Picchu. The first part about the last days of... |  A History Of Latin America: CompleteBest Price: $77.72 This book is completely terrible because it is VERY VERY poorly written. Keen cannot fluidly... |  Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's StoryBest Price: $10.17 Recommended by a friend, but I did not enjoy the book. The author seems to place the crude... |  Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim ColombiaBest Price: $21.40 The Crying Game of Democracy Review of Ingrid Betancourt's memoir Until Death Do Us Part, My... |  Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the WorldBest Price: $18.42 If you want to take an exotic trip to South America to visit the Galapagos Islands, but can't... |
 Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of IndependenceBest Price: $6.00 Ever wonder what happened to those men to which we, as Americans, are so deeply indebted who... |  The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)Best Price: $24.98 Everyone knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, seeking a new... |  The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of EmpireBest Price: $2.63 "The Thief at the End of the World" by J Jackson is another book in the popular genre... |  The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the AmazonBest Price: $3.96 "The Mapmaker's Wife" by Robert Whitaker lives up to its intriguing subtitle, "A... |  Bruchko and the Motilone MiracleBest Price: $8.91 The original Bruchko book is one of my favorite books of all time. So when I heard he had... |
 Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical PeruBest Price: $10.94 This book offers a rare insight into Andean life, a life in which animals are part of the... |  The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)Best Price: $16.27 This is a great book for the history of Peru. The chronological order is perfect. All the... |  Evita: The Real Life of Eva PeronBest Price: $4.99 When I was assigned to read this book I was afraid it was going to be a boring biography that... |  Child Of The Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De JesusBest Price: $2.77 Not the best book about Brazil in general, probably a well not the best book about Favelas... |  Colonial Latin AmericaBest Price: $36.35 The seller sold the book in the condition which described. It arrived in a timely manner and... |
 The Angry Aztecs and the Incredible Incas (Horrible Histories Collections)Best Price: $8.16 There has been some criticism of the Horrible Histories as misinformed and simplistic, but this... |  News of a Kidnapping (Vintage International)Best Price: $6.55 Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez wrote News of a Kidnapping to tell the story of the ordeal of ten... |  Machu PicchuBest Price: $16.62 This book about Machu Picchu in Peru is not a guide for tourists. It is a work of art drawn from... |  The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)Best Price: $12.00 This is a nice collection of historical work, including speeches, articles and poetry. The work... |  Latinoam?rica: Presente y pasado (3rd Edition)Best Price: $68.50 This second edition of Fox's book is even better than the first. Fox is a master storyteller... |
 Brazil: Amazon And Pantanal (Travellers' Wildlife Guides)Best Price: $18.45 Given the length of this book, it is a superb guide to the wildlife and plants that one might... |  The Penguin History of Latin America (Penguin History)Best Price: $7.24 As others have noted, this is a highly readable introduction to Latin American history. I had... |  Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico por ChileBest Price: $5.97 This is a beautiful book. You will learn a lot about Chile and the author. Isabel Allende is a... |  The Incas: People of the SunBest Price: $5.18 I found this book very helpful in explaining the conquest of Peru by the Spaniards and, most... |  And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of ArgentinaBest Price: $3.89 This is a short book, easy to read and boy, does it deliver! An account of Argentina during it's... |
 The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America (Dialogos Series)Best Price: $24.95 A contemporary of Columbus noted ?those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than... |  The History of Chile (Palgrave Essential Histories)Best Price: $12.11 Within Chile is the driest desert in the world, the highest mountain range in the hemisphere,... |  Changing Venezuela: The History and Policies of the Chavez GovernmentBest Price: $14.90 This book unlike any other book written on the Hugo Chavez governments policies went into a... |  The Incas (Peoples of America)Best Price: $20.87 Eager to learn more about the Incas, I found out the hard way that this book is not for the... |  The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (Revised Edition)Best Price: $20.23 The book is written in elaborate English - not easy to read but very elegant. Although it is... |
 Latin America: Conflict and Creation, a Historical ReaderBest Price: $36.15 This text reproduces documents that provide a better understanding of the Latin American past... |  Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)Best Price: $14.00 It's hard to take this work seriously when it's so full of errors. The author became a... |  Tristes TropiquesBest Price: $6.00 I like to travel and to observe the cities, landscapes, the plants and animals and the human... |  Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and IndochinaBest Price: $11.05 this book offers the reader many details / facts about the relationships between drugs, oil,... |  Brazil: Five Centuries of Change (Latin American Histories)Best Price: $30.84 This book is very INACCURATE with a lots of wrong information. The Empire in Brazil was quite... |
 Running the AmazonBest Price: $6.54 I enjoyed this book & felt I learned a lot about the heart of South America - mainly Peru,... |  Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence (Pivotal Moments in World History)Best Price: $15.44 Having never read on this subject before, I found "Americanos" interesting but it's... |  The BraziliansBest Price: $7.99 Only the highest mark for this outstanding work. If you're interested in Brazil, this is the... |  Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1)Best Price: $8.50 Galeano admits that he has not written an objective history of the Americas, and that some of... |  Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean, 3rd EditionBest Price: $18.16 _Americas_ by Peter Winn is a massive (600 page) overview of Latin America and the Caribbean, a... |
 Birds of Chile (Princeton Field Guides)Best Price: $19.58 Basics: 2003, softcover, 240 pages, 96 color plates, 473 species, range map for each bird In... |  Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in ColombiaBest Price: $16.79 I feel that this a very strong series of stories and history of Colombia and of the FARC. Mr.... |  PaulaBest Price: $2.88 In this book, Isabel Allende downplays her first two traumatic experiences. The central focus... |  The Ancient Kingdoms of PeruBest Price: $8.89 Davies' book on the ancient 'kingdoms' of Peru covers several key pre-Spanish cultures and... |  The Accidental President of Brazil: A MemoirBest Price: $8.73 This is an intriguing and informative political memoir, and I would highly recommend it to... |
 Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History (8th Edition)Best Price: $42.48 This book seems like it was written by an 8th grader. Disorganized, it often presents an... | ||||
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