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Insight Guides: Peru
Insight Guides: Peru
Insight Guides

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The Last Days of the Incas
The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie

from $15.59

South America (Pull Ahead Books)
South America (Pull Ahead Books)
Madeline Donaldson

from $5.09

Ancient South Americans
Ancient South Americans

from $7.09

Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America (Lost Cities Series)
Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America (Lost Cities Series)
David Hatcher Childress

from $9.39

South America (Atlas of the Seven Continents.)
South America (Atlas of the Seven Continents.)
Wendy Vierow

from $18.29

Yesterday's Soldiers: European Military Professionalism in South America, 1890-1940
Yesterday's Soldiers: European Military Professionalism in South America, 1890-1940
Frederick M. Nunn

from $60.00

Byzantium: The Apogee
Byzantium: The Apogee
John Julius Norwich

from $10.79

Pombo: A Man of Che's Guerrilla: With Che Guevara in Bolivia, 1966-68
Pombo: A Man of Che's Guerrilla: With Che Guevara in Bolivia, 1966-68
Harry Villegas

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Cape Horn to Starboard
Cape Horn to Starboard
John Kretschmer

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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard

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Through Gates of Splendor
Through Gates of Splendor
Elisabeth Elliot

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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann

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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson

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Diarios de motocicleta
Diarios de motocicleta
Ernesto Che Guevara

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Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot

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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Piers Paul Read

from $3.99

In Patagonia
In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin

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Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
John Charles Chasteen

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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Mark Bowden

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South America

The White Rock
The White Rock
Hugh Thomson

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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives
The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives
Cristoforo Colombo

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Diario del Che en Bolivia
Diario del Che en Bolivia
Ernesto Che Guevara

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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Hugh Thomas

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Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)
Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)
Roberto González Echevarría

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Epidemic and Peace, 1918
Epidemic and Peace, 1918
Alfred W. Crosby

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A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)
A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)
Marjorie Agosín

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Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition (Jaguar Books on Latin America)
Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition (Jaguar Books on Latin America)

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Colonial Angels : Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750
Colonial Angels : Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750
Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

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Dias y Noches de Amor y de Guerra
Dias y Noches de Amor y de Guerra
Eduardo Galeano

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With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (A Centennial Book)
With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (A Centennial Book)
Warren Dean

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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
Herbert S. Klein

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My Old Man and the Sea
My Old Man and the Sea
David Hays

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Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
Nick Hazlewood

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The World Is a Ghetto
The World Is a Ghetto
Howard Winant

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Amazon Stranger: A Rainforest Chief Battles Big Oil
Amazon Stranger: A Rainforest Chief Battles Big Oil
Mike Tidwell

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Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America (California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy , No 25)
Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America (California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy , No 25)
Barbara Geddes

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Arthurian Myth & Legend: An A-Z of People and Places
Arthurian Myth & Legend: An A-Z of People and Places
Mike Dixon-Kennedy

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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Alan Weisman

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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
Robert Whitaker

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Americas

Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
John Julius Norwich

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The Conquest of the Incas
The Conquest of the Incas
John Hemming

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Colonial Latin America
Colonial Latin America
Mark A. Burkholder

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Jewish History Atlas
Jewish History Atlas
Martin Gilbert

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Kleine Geschichte der katholischen Kirche
Kleine Geschichte der katholischen Kirche
Hans Küng

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The Penguin History of Latin America (Penguin History)
The Penguin History of Latin America (Penguin History)
Edwin Williamson

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Conquistadors
Conquistadors
Michael Wood

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Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas)
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas)
Jacobo Timerman

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The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition
The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition
Pablo Neruda

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A Short History of Latin America
A Short History of Latin America
Benjamin Keen

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The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics
The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Robin Kirk

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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon
Buddy Levy

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Daily Life of the Aztecs
Daily Life of the Aztecs
Jacques Soustelle

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Byzantium: The Early Centuries
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
John Julius Norwich

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The Little School: Tales of Disappearance & Survival in Argentina
The Little School: Tales of Disappearance & Survival in Argentina
Alicia Partnoy

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Che: A Memoir
Che: A Memoir
Fidel Castro

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Facundo o civilización y barbarie en las pampas argentinas
Facundo o civilización y barbarie en las pampas argentinas
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

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Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization
Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization
Andrew Collins

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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
Peter Kornbluh

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Silence On The Mountain: Stories Of Terror, Betrayal, And Forgetting In Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Silence On The Mountain: Stories Of Terror, Betrayal, And Forgetting In Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Daniel Wilkinson

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Latin America

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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Brazil: Five Centuries of Change (Latin American Histories)
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change (Latin American Histories)
Thomas E. Skidmore

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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
Alma Guillermoprieto

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Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism
Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism
Peter Winn

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The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
Catherine J. Allen

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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Carmen Aguirre

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Problems in Modern Latin American History (Latin American Silhouettes)
Problems in Modern Latin American History (Latin American Silhouettes)
James A. Wood

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A History of Brazil
A History of Brazil
E. Bradford Burns

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Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean
Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean
Peter Winn

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Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History
Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History
E. Bradford Burns

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Into The Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami
Into The Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami
Kenneth Good

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Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History
Kenneth Mills

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Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
João Biehl

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The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru
The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru
Michael E. Moseley

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Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga To 1640
Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga To 1640
Steve J. Stern

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A Concise History of Brazil
A Concise History of Brazil
Boris Fausto

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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
Michael Taussig

from $9.19

The History of Argentina (Palgrave Essential Histories)
The History of Argentina (Palgrave Essential Histories)
Daniel K. Lewis

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The Contemporary History of Latin America
The Contemporary History of Latin America
Tulio Halperin Donghi

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Latin America History Books

Os Sertões: Campanha de Canudos
Os Sertões: Campanha de Canudos
Euclides da Cunha

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The History of Chile (Palgrave Essential Histories)
The History of Chile (Palgrave Essential Histories)
John L. Rector

from $8.69

A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (Oxford World's Classics)
A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (Oxford World's Classics)
Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines
Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines
Moema Viezzer

from $4.79

Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Latin American Silhouettes)
Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Latin American Silhouettes)
Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard

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Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society
Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society
Sandra Lauderdale Graham

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Explorers of the Amazon
Explorers of the Amazon
Anthony Smith

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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
Patrick Tierney

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El vuelo
El vuelo
Horacio Verbitsky

from $6.59

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
Piero Gleijeses

from $9.89

Daily Life in the Inca Empire (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
Daily Life in the Inca Empire (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
Michael A. Malpass

from $4.99

Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil
Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil
Stuart B. Schwartz

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Politics of Latin America: The Power Game
Politics of Latin America: The Power Game
Gary Prevost

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More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia
More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia
Robin Kirk

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Chronique des Indiens Guayaki: ce que savent les Aché, chasseurs nomades du Paraguay
Chronique des Indiens Guayaki: ce que savent les Aché, chasseurs nomades du Paraguay
Pierre Clastres

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Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
George Reid Andrews

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Les lances du crépuscule. Relations jivaros, Haute Amazonie
Les lances du crépuscule. Relations jivaros, Haute Amazonie
Philippe Descola

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Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
João José Reis

from $12.69

Latin America and Its People, Volume I: To 1830 (2nd Edition)
Latin America and Its People, Volume I: To 1830 (2nd Edition)
Cheryl E. Martin

from $8.49

The Spanish American Revolution 1808-1826 (Revolutions in the Modern World)
The Spanish American Revolution 1808-1826 (Revolutions in the Modern World)
John Lynch

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South American History Books

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Mark Adams

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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
Linda Schele

from $5.59

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin

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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World'sMost Notorious Nazi
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World'sMost Notorious Nazi
Neal Bascomb

from $4.59

Mi país inventado
Mi país inventado
Isabel Allende

from $4.19

Noticia de un secuestro
Noticia de un secuestro
Gabriel García Márquez

from $4.89

Memoria del fuego 1: Los nacimientos
Memoria del fuego 1: Los nacimientos
Eduardo Galeano

from $5.99

Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benson John Lossing

from $5.79

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike Davis

from $12.79

Tristes Tropiques
Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss

from $6.39

Lost City of the Incas
Lost City of the Incas
Hiram Bingham

from $5.19

The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
Roberto Escobar Gaviria

from $5.09

A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
Julia Scheeres

from $5.19

The Battle for the Falklands
The Battle for the Falklands
Max Hastings

from $5.09

Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story
Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story
Mark Andrew Ritchie

from $5.39

El siglo del viento
El siglo del viento
Eduardo Galeano

from $4.99

Japanese Mythology
Japanese Mythology
Juliet Piggott

from $6.79

Modern Latin America
Modern Latin America
Thomas E. Skidmore

from $4.29

Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle
Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle
Bruce Olson

from $9.49

Galapagos: A Natural History
Galapagos: A Natural History
Michael H. Jackson

from $5.09

South American Travel Books

בחזרה מטואיצ'י: סיפור שהיה
בחזרה מטואיצ'י: סיפור שהיה
Yossi Ghinsberg

from $7.99

Running the Amazon
Running the Amazon
Joe Kane

from $4.79

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Paul Theroux

from $4.39

Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
Rusty Young

from $6.89

Peru
Peru
Maryanne Blacker

from $4.99

Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
Sy Montgomery

from $5.19

Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses: A Memoir
Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses: A Memoir
Paula McLain

from $4.19

Wildlife of the Galapagos (Princeton Illustrated Checklists)
Wildlife of the Galapagos (Princeton Illustrated Checklists)
Daniel Fitter

from $5.99

Chili et île de Pâques - 5ed
Chili et île de Pâques - 5ed
Lonely Planet

from $4.89

The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Scott Wallace

from $4.59

Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure
Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure
Don Starkell

from $6.19

Chile & Easter Island
Chile & Easter Island
Divya Chowfin

from $5.09

Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile
Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile
Sara Wheeler

from $5.19

National Geographic Traveler: Costa Rica (National Geographic Traveler)
National Geographic Traveler: Costa Rica (National Geographic Traveler)
Christopher P. Baker

from $4.79

Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Barbara Ras

from $7.59

Lonely Planet Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (Country Guide)
Lonely Planet Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (Country Guide)
Regis St. Louis

from $4.69

In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
Redmond O'Hanlon

from $4.99

Argentina
Argentina

from $4.79

Costa Rica: The Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide (Ecotravellers Wildlife Guide: Costa Rica)
Costa Rica: The Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide (Ecotravellers Wildlife Guide: Costa Rica)
Les Beletsky

from $6.39

Brazil
Brazil
Lonely Planet

from $4.79

Common themes among these books on South America include: exploration of indigenous cultures and history, political and social upheaval, environmental issues, survival in challenging conditions, travel and adventure, wildlife and natural wonders, and the impact of colonialism. The books cover a range of genres including historical accounts, memoirs, travelogues, non-fiction explorations of culture and politics, and fiction based on real events.

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