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Magical Sites: Women Travelers in 19th Century Latin America
by Marjorie Agosin  Publisher Comments This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who traveled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied...
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Mexico in Mind: An Anthology (Vintage Departures)
by Maria Finn Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Italy in Mind" and "Cuba in Mind" comes a richly varied anthology of fiction, travel writing, and poetry by a stunning array of great writers in English who have been beguiled by Mexico over the centuries....
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On a Hoof and a Prayer: Exploring Argentina at a Gallop
by Polly Evans Publisher Comments The stampeding true story of one woman’s journey from timorous equestrian novice to wildly whooping cowgirl—a madcap ride through Argentina that will fascinate horse lovers, travelers, and armchair adventurers alike. As a girl, Polly Evans...
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The Making of Toro: Bullfights, Broken Hearts, and One Author's Quest for the Acclaim He Deserves
by Mark Sundeen Publisher Comments Mark Sundeen receives a call from a big city publisher with an offer to write a book about bullfighting in Spain. Sundeen agrees, assuming that this is his best and last chance to follow the trajectory of his literary heroes, despite the fact that he has...
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The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers (Graywolf Memoir)
by Moritz Thomsen Publisher Comments The Saddest Pleasure The Saddest Pleasure is a deeply personal look at the people, poverty, beauty, art, music, literature, and passion of South America by an American who has spent most of his life there. Moritz Thomsen was one of the early Peace Corps...
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Incidents of Travel in Central Amer Volume 2
by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 2 of two-volume work. Almost single-handed discovery of Maya culture; exploration of ruined cities, monuments, temples; customs of Indians. Total in set: 115 drawings.<BR>...
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Bimini
by David T Warner Publisher Comments David Warner first arrived on Bimini in his youth. Captivated by the island's quirky natives and their relaxed culture, Warner has been returning frequently ever since. Rather than write a travel guide, in his new book Warner recreates the excitement and...
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Into a Desert Place: A 3000 Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California
by Graham Mackintosh Publisher Comments Mackintosh, an Englishman, fell in love with Baja California on a visit and, despite a glaring shortage of both experience and money, determined to walk its entire coast. This book is his account of how he equipped himself, what he saw and learned, and...
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The Reader's Companion to Cuba
by Alan Ryan Publisher Comments A gathering of some of the best travel writing ever about the most intriguing hot spot in the Caribbean, this book includes work by Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Thomas Merton, Anais N•n, Frederic Remington, James Michener, Tommy Lasorda, and others....
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An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
by Ann Vanderhoof Publisher Comments Under the Tuscan Sun meets the wide-open sea...An Embarrassment of Mangoes is a delicious chronicle of leaving the type-A lifestyle behind — and discovering the seductive secrets of life in the Caribbean. Who hasn't fantasized about chucking the...
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Selkirks Island
by Diana Souhani Synopsis The story of Alexander Selkirk, a pirate who sailed the South Seas on looting expeditions for gold and treasure. Eventually, he marooned himself on an island off the coast of Chile and spent years in solitude there before being rescued. His exploits...
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Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba
by Richard Schweid Publisher Comments Schweid blends the history of cars, trucks, and buses in Cuba with stories from his own experience there. The rich narrative, accompanied by 52 b&w historic photos and an 8-page color insert of photos by Cuban photographer Adalberto Roque, presents a...
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Monster of the Madidi Searching for The
by Simon Chapman Publisher Comments The hard evidence amounted to a grainy photo published in a 1929 London newspaper. Sitting on a packing case, propped up with a large stick, was what purported to be the body of a giant ape—the “Mono Rey.” It was said to have inhabited...
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Home by Another Way: Notes from the Caribbean
by Robert Benson Publisher Comments A lovely Caribbean island and its people awaken in author Robert Benson a sense of place and home. The islanders’ warmth and welcome prompt a new understanding of ideas of beauty, community and spiritual belonging. “We live in a world where...
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Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts (Latin American Silhouettes)
by June Edith Hahner Publisher Comments The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because...
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The Making of Toro: Bullfights, Broken Hearts, and One Author's Quest for the Acclaim He Deserves
by Mark Sundeen 
Publisher Comments Hunter S. Thompson meets Dave Eggers in this hilarious memoir about the tension between life and art, utter literary failure, and even some bullfighting. Photos throughout....
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Along the Inca Road: A Woman's Journey Into an Ancient Empire
by Karin Muller Publisher Comments One of the engineering wonders of the world, the Inca Road was built more than five hundred years ago to link the far-flung outposts of a fabled empire -- an empire that ruled in golden splendor until the conquistadors arrived to plunder El Dorado and...
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Brazilian Adventure
by Peter Fleming Publisher Comments In his famously ironic style, Peter Fleming writes in the introduction to Brazilian Adventure, "Beyond the completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, through a little-known part of the world, and the discovery of one new...
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Selkirks Island the Original Robinson CR
by Diana Souhami Publisher Comments The true story of the man who was the inspiration behind Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", a Scottish buccaneer named Alexander Selkirk, who survived for years marooned on a remote island off the Chilean coast. "Masterly...Souhami's excellent book should...
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Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba
by Christopher P Baker Publisher Comments Equally at home on the elegant avenídas of Havana and the washboard trails of the Cuban countryside, Christopher P. Baker's 1000cc BMW Paris-Dakar was as much a state of mind as a form of transportation. Gaudy and gargantuan, the lipstick-red...
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