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A Parisian in Brazil: The Travel Account of a Frenchwoman in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro: The Travel Account of a Frenchwoman in Nineteenth-Cent (Latin American Silhouettes)
by Ad Toussaint Samson  Publisher Comments This virtually unknown, insightful account by a highly intelligent, observant and forthright Frenchwoman of her decade-long stay in Brazil during the 1850s provides a remarkable firsthand view of a slaveocrat society. In an effort to improve their family'...
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Between Extremes
by Brian Keenan Publisher Comments For four years Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. To displace the ugly confines of their existence, they imagined walking in the High Andes and across the wastes of Patagonia. Five years after their release, they...
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Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
by Patrick Symmes Publisher Comments Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the...
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Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire
by Ruy Castro Publisher Comments Vibrant portrait of life in Rio - exploring it's history and people. Full of extraordinary stories about cannibals, slaves, beach life, carnivals, football and music. A lively personal reflection....
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Kayaking the Vermilion Sea: Eight Hundred Miles Down the Baja
by Jonathan Waterman Publisher Comments The story of an epic journey on the legendary Sea of Cortes--and of the struggle of a man and a woman to come to terms with nature, themselves, and each other. Kayaking the Vermilion Sea is an exhilarating, lyrical journal filled with the region's lore...
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Burial Brothers: From New York to Rio in a '73 Cadillac Hearse
by Simon Mayle Publisher Comments On a cold January night in New York City, Simon Mayle and his accomplice Lenny board a '73 Cadillac hearse and set off for Rio de Janeiro in the guise of traveling morticians. While cruising through the sweltering underbelly of Latin America, they...
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Dancing Alone in Mexico: From the Border to Baja and Beyond
by Ron Butler Publisher Comments Ron Butler never dreamed Mexico would capture his heart and his soul. However after crisscrossing the country, he was seduced by its charms, rhythms and melodies. He goes off the beaten path in Acapulco and Cancun, and walks in the footsteps of movie...
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A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
by Melinda Blanchard Publisher Comments This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with...
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Enduring Patagonia
by Gregory Crouch About the Author Gregory Crouch grew up in Goleta, California, where he now lives with his wife, DeAnne, and their son, Ryan. He has made more than a dozen climbing expeditions on four continents, most notably in Alaska and Patagonia, and his work has appeared in...
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In Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin 
Publisher Comments In Patagonia is Bruce Chatwin's exquisite account of his journey through "the uttermost part of the earth," that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcome and Charles Darwin formed part of his "survival of...
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In trouble again :a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
by Redmond Ohanlon Book News Annotation O'Hanlon is the natural history editor of The Times literary supplement. This is an informative and amusing account of his four- month expedition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe
by Diana Souhami Publisher Comments A fascinating account of piracy, betrayal, and raw survival on the high seas and dry land, Selkirk's Island rediscovers the amazing tale of an eighteenth-century legend. Born a poor Scotsman, Alexander Selkirk signed with William Dampier, a pirate who...
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Chile Travels in a Thin Country
by Sara Wheeler Publisher Comments Sarah's account of travelling the length of Chile: a country squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth....
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Savages
by Joe Kane Publisher Comments Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos. From the Trade Paperback edition....
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Paddle to the Amazon
by Don Starkell Publisher Comments An epic 12,000-mile canoe trip is the subject of this breathtaking father-and-son adventure. From Winnipeg the Starkells paddled south down the Mississippi, along the coast of Central America, inland through the waterways of Colombia and Venezuela, and...
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Eldorado, or, Adventures in the path of empire :comprising a voyage to California, via Panama, life in San Francisco and Monterey, pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel
by Bayard Taylor Publisher Comments The Eldorado that Bayard Taylor imagined in his youthful poetry was not half so fabulous as the California he finally saw in the historical year of 1849. He joined the flood of Forty-niners, not as a fortune-seeker but as a journalist, sailing from New...
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Travelers Tales Brazil
by Annette Haddad Publisher Comments It's winter. The holidays are over. For those living in areas where it's still snowing, and even where it's just cold or rainy, it's the time of year when magazines, newspapers, radio, and television are tantalizing us with ads of warm beaches, sunshine,...
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Sons of the moon :a journey in the Andes
by Henry Shukman Book News Annotation A well-observed and well-written traveler's tale centering an the Aymara, the native people of the Altiplano, the austere highlands of the Bolivian Andes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Recuerdos de Guatemala: A Spanish Reader
by Cary Davis Publisher Comments This travelogue provides a basic reader for students on the upper high-school level and for secondary-level college students. The author’s expert knowledge of the language and the country has enabled him to give free rein to his love affair with...
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Hidden Amazon: The Greatest Voyage in Natural History
by Richard L Lutz Synopsis About the Peruvian Amazon and its wonders. Using as a starter two trips in the Amazon area?one in the river itself and one into the jungle?the book is both an enjoyable travelogue for armhair adventurers and a handbook full of information for those...
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