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81) Colombia
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Frommer's guides aren't written by committee, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. Frommer's authors Nicholas Gill and Caroline Lascom have been covering Colombia for over a decade and this book hits all the highlights, from the Amazon to the Andes. Gill and Lascom provide insights and detailed information so you can better explore the exquisite colonial core of Cartagena; enjoy the nightlife...
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A ride from the Alto Plano of Bolivia and Peru to the frozen tip of Patagonia; on the world's most dangerous road, where the stakes are high, on to Argentina's fabled Ruta 40, where the steaks are large and cheap. Across salt pans, into mud holes, up the Andes and down again; past the ruins of the ruins of Macchu Pichu, and on the edge of the epicentre of the Chilean earthquake. Through a land of contrasts - mountains and lowlands, deserts and glaciers,...
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Begin your tango journey to Buenos Aires! Experience the tango dance halls (milongas), the dinner shows, tango bars, and restaurants that feature tango. Learn where the icons of tango are immortalized. Know where to dance and what is expected of the visitor who traverses the culture of tango. The author, a single woman traveling alone, visited Buenos Aries many times over many years. Recently, she lived there for a year, keeping a journal of her...
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Samba the night away in Lapa, people-watch and sip sunset cocktails on Ipanema Beach or get up close to Christ the Redeemer and marvel at the panoramic view of Rio; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Rio de Janeiro and...
85) Bogotana
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La narradora chilena Alejandra Costamagna viaja a Bogotá convocada por un encuentro de escritura in situ. En diez días registra las frecuencias del habla, los lenguajes impredecibles del cielo, las narrativas del horror, la violencia que colinda con el goce y la rumba. El escritor venezolano Slavko Zupcic recorre Bogotá muchos años antes, por medio del castellano dulce de sus amigos colombianos migrantes, sin nunca visitarla. La imaginó como...
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The author is researching a history of Bolivia and is determined to visit every corner of that vast country - famous for its extremes. Along the way he visits arid deserts and steaming jungles, tours silver, copper, tin and led mines high in the Andes. He travels the most dangerous roads in the Americas. Rides buses, trains, trucks, boats and even an ox cart. He is one of the last people to take the steamer across Lake Titicaca and to ride the infamous...
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Patricia Woodard had always wanted to live and work in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then in the summer of 1975 while she was teaching summer school in her hometown of Whiteville, North Carolina, she received a telegram offering her a teaching position in Bogot, Colombia. Excited and stunned to finally be realizing her dream, she accepted the offer and set off for a year high on a plateau in the Andes Mountains. Several years...
88) Bolivia
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Bolivia is home to enormous biodiversity: surreal volcanic landscapes, lush valleys, vast salt flats and Amazon jungle. Footprint's 6th edition Bolivia Handbook will guide you from the blinding-white expanse of Salar de Uyuni and racing round hairpin bends on the most dangerous road in the world to the stunning turquoise of Lake Titicaca. • Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the country, including trekking, wildlife spotting & the...
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Linked by the sinuous spine of the Andes, Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador are born of a synthesis of ancient America and medieval Europe. Footprint's Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador Handbook will guide you from the unforgettably unique Galápagos Islands, through the awe-inspiring citadel of Machu Picchu, to the shimmering turquoise waters of Lake Titicaca. • Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the region, including the colonial treasures of Quito;...
90) The Coca Box
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Funny and fanciful, this is a book about a Coca Box, and an unlikely travel foursome exploring the art and archaeology of Peru. Except that one member of the team likes to collect Pre-Columbian pottery. If trafficking in archaeological materials is unlawful, it seems to matter little, and in the end, it appears her efforts were futile. Everything she bought was fake. Or was it? We may never know. Meantime we bounce over desert tracks along Perus North...
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En su pasaje de su prólogo al Viaje al río de la Plata, Bartolomé Mitre afirma:
El juicio respecto del libro de Schmídel, Viaje al río de la Plata, está definitivamente formado y es unánime. Hulsius dice que leyó el manuscrito original «con placer y admiración». Camus, entre otros méritos, le reconoce el ser uno de los primeros que se hayan escrito sobre esta parte de la América meridional.
Azara, tan severo con los cronistas del Río...
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Apuntaciones sueltas de Inglaterra. Leandro Fernández de Moratín
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Encontrones por las calles. Los ingleses que van deprisa, sabiendo que la línea recta es la más corta, atropellan cuanto encuentran; los que van cargados con fardos o maderos, siguen su camino, no avisan a nadie y dejan caer a cuantos hallan por delante.
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Los que barren las calles piden dinero a los que pasan; las mujeres que venden bollitos o estampas,...
93) Conversational Spanish Quick and Easy: The Most Innovative Technique to Learn the Spanish Language
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Have you always wanted to learn how to speak Spanish but simply didn't have the time?
Well if so, then, look no further. You can hold in your hands one of the most advanced and revolutionary method that was ever designed for quickly becoming conversational in a language. In creating this time-saving program, master linguist Yatir Nitzany spent years examining the twenty-seven most common languages in the world and distilling from them the three hundred...
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This book is about a paranormal experience that I had lived while completing an Ayahuasca ritual on September 18th, 2015 in Peru, where I had an encounter with an entity from another dimension who claimed to be God and who called himself IZOEK. The writing revolves around the revelation of life and message to the world from this entity that has impacted my life exponentially to initiate a search of this truth that we all think to know. Additionally,...
95) Thy will be done: the conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the age of oil
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What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller...
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National Geographic Society
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1998
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IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A first-person account of the 1995 discovery of the over 500-year-old Peruvian ice mummy on Mount Ampato and a description of the subsequent retrieval and scientific study.
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Explora la Fascinante Historia de los Incas
Una de las culturas antiguas más notables de Sudamérica es, sin lugar a dudas, la civilización inca. Reinaron sobre el imperio más grande de Sudamérica; no solo eso, su imperio era también el más grande del mundo en ese momento.
Hay muchos misterios que rodean a los incas. ¿Dónde se originaron? ¿Cómo llegaron a reinar sobre un imperio tan vasto que incluía montañas, selvas tropicales y zonas...
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The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth's last wild places.
For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture.
In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of...