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Cuban Elegance
by Michael Connors  Publisher Comments At a time when more and more travelers are discovering Cuba, which has been locked away from the outside world for more than 40 years, this lavishly illustrated, absorbing volume offers a completely different view of the island from the one seen by most...
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Machu Picchu
by Pablo Neruda Synopsis A gift book on one of the most popular tourist destinations in South America - the historic Inca city of Machu Picchu. Photographs of the sacred lost city are interwoven with the epic poem by Pablo Neruda entitled "The Heights of Machu Picchu"....
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Cartagena Forever
by Hernan Diaz Publisher Comments This book does not exist. Here there are walls, bursts of laughter, sorrows and illusions; perhaps there are hurricanes. But it's certainly the ghosts of Rulfo who laugh, who greet you, who dance merecumbe and who sneeze. And there are no pages or scents...
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An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque
by Krista A. Thompson Synopsis Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands' tourism industry in the...
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Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon
by John Hemming Publisher Comments A history of the Amazon, its peoples, and those who have explored the river by an author with unsurpassed knowledge and experience in the region. By far the world's largest river, the Amazon flows through the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest on...
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Shabono: A Visit to a Remote and Magical World in the South American Rain Forest
by Florinda Donner Publisher Comments Chapter OneI Was Half Asleep. Yet I could sense people moving around me. As if from a great distance, I heard the soft rustle of bare feet over the packed dirt of the hut, the coughing and clearing of throats, and the faint voices of women. Leisurely I...
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Bogota from the Air
by Benjamin Villegas Publisher Comments Majestic at 2,600 metres above sea level, Bogotá shows its best face from the air. The book provides a different perspective to admire the best facet of one of the largest cities in South America and to enjoy it with the dignity that only height...
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Pantanal: South America's Wetland Jewel
by Theo Allofs Synopsis A spectacular tour of the world's largest wetland. The Pantanal covers 81,000 square miles in the middle of South America, extending over parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. About half the size of California and 20 times the size of the Everglades...
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I Was Cuba: Treasures from the Ramiro Fernandez Collection
by Kevin Kwan Synopsis While most think of Cuba as a mythical island of rum, rumba, and revolution, period photographs reveal a more complex place. I Was Cuba is an original look at Cuban history as seen through the Ramiro Fernandez Collection arguably the world's leading...
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Carnival in Rio: Samba, Samba, Samba with CD (Audio)
by Terry (pht) George Synopsis During Carnival, Rio de Janeiro shuts down business as usual and throws itself into the world's most famous party in honor of unbridled hedonism and the rhythm of Samba... If you can't experience the legendary Parade in Rio's Sambodrome or want to...
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A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Australia
by David G Campbell Publisher Comments The western Amazon is the last frontier, as wild a west as Earth has ever known. For thirty years David G. Campbell has been exploring this lush wilderness, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere at any time in the four-billion-year...
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Kidnapped in the Amazon Jungle
by F Bruce Lamb Publisher Comments This is a spirited retelling of the true story of Manuel Cordova-Rios, who as a young man was abducted by a tribe of Indians while on a rubber-cutting expedition in the Amazon jungle in 1907. This first-person account relates Cordova-Rios' terrifying...
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Primal Images: 100 Lumen Prints of Amazonia Flora
by Jerry Burchfield Publisher Comments With its fragile beauty and dark power, the Amazon has fascinated people throughout the centuries. Enthralled by its exotic and impenetrable mystery on his first visit to the region in 1998, Jerry Burchfield sought to utilize his skills as a photographer...
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Red Rubber Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850 - 1933
by Michael Edward Stanfield Publisher Comments A sweeping story of exploration, exploitation, empire, and international scandal....
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San Juan
by Julia Rodriguez Publisher Comments Todo el paisaje de mi infancia ha desaparecido . . . Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá is an expert and lyrical guide to the history, inhabitants, and culture of his native city of San Juan, recalling scenes from his childhood while chonicling the social...
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A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia
by David G Campbell Publisher Comments The western Amazon is the last frontier, as wild a west as Earth has ever known. For thirty years David G. Campbell has been exploring this lush wilderness, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere at any time in the four-billion-year...
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Urban Photography in Argentina: Nine Artists of the Post-Dictatorship Era
by David William Foster Synopsis This work examines the cultural impact of photography in Argentina following the end of the country's military dictatorship in the early 1980s. The interpretive study surveys nine modern photographers in Argentina?Marcelo Brodsky, Gabriel Valansi...
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Alta Colombia
by Cristobal Von Rothkirch Publisher Comments Ever since they were formed in remote geological eras, emerging from the depths under the earth's crust, the mountain ranges of our planet have appeared to dominate the world. Magical in their silence and seemingly indestructible ,mountains have been...
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To Weave and Sing
by David M Guss Publisher Comments To Weave and Sing is the first in-depth analysis of the rich spiritual and artistic traditions of the Carib-speaking Yekuana Indians of Venezuela, who live in the dense rain forest of the upper Orinoco. Within their homeland of Ihuruna, the Yekuana have...
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Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado
by Robert Silverburg Synopsis With a historian's attention to fact and a novelist's gift for the dramatic, Silverberg brings the legend of El Dorado to life once more....
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