South America
epub |eng | 2004-04-12 | Author:Robert Whitaker [Whitaker, Robert]

Samuel Fritz’s Map of the Amazon, 1707. By permission of the British Library. FROM THE BEGINNING of the French expedition, there had been some talk that the group, as a ...
( Category: Ecuador & Galapagos Islands June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-20 | Author:Fodor's

Worth Noting Bodega Escorihuela. The closest winery to the city—and the oldest working one in the province—is Bodega Escorihuela. Located in Godoy Cruz (about a 15-minute cab ride from Mendoza ...
( Category: General June 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frei Betto

DISORDER Bramante led Cândido round the side of the house to an annex above the garage. “This is where I work,” said Bramante, welcoming his guest into the study. “That ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:John Harrison

Dapple Dawn brought the World Cup Final. I pulled on clothes, and took out a chair to join heavily muffled locals glued to a black and white television set up ...
( Category: Travel April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Planet, Lonely & Carolina A Miranda & Carolyn McCarthy & Kevin Raub & Brendan Sainsbury & Luke Waterson [Planet, Lonely]

Getting Around To/From the Airport The airport is about 6km south of the city center. A taxi to or from the city center to the airport costs S10. An official ...
( Category: General March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Peacock, Adam [Peacock, Adam]

Haphazard electrical wiring in Barreira do Vasco. Just like any other community, there are differing living standards within a favela. In most of Australia it is luxury, good, liveable, bad. ...
( Category: General March 22,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Potrerillos 02624 / Elev 1351m Set above the newly built Potrerillos reservoir in beautiful Andean precordillera, Potrerillos is one of Mendoza’s white-water hot spots, usually visited during a day’s rafting ...
( Category: Paraguay & Uruguay March 7,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Levi-Strauss, Claude [Levi-Strauss, Claude]

Fig 28. A lip ornament and earrings made of mother-of-pearl and feathers Gradually, all these people went away; we were sharing the hut, which measured approximately twelve metres by five, ...
( Category: General February 13,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:James Morrow

9 Venomous Snakes Fall from the Sky, Fortress Walls Come Tumbling Down, and a New Plan Hatches in Chloe’s Brain On maps the region was called Tierra del Fuego, but ...
( Category: Ecuador & Galapagos Islands January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-28 | Author:Alex Bellos

Catholicism in Brazil is as old as the discovery of South America. Four days after Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral stumbled across an idyllic coastline on his way to India, ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-01 | Author:Leao, Rodrigo Souza [Leao, Rodrigo Souza]

The man inside the milk carton slapped another man inside a Colorama shampoo bottle. He was a different kind of guy; he liked to go shopping with his mum. I ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Sara Wheeler [Wheeler, Sara]

The cabin overlooked the Claro river, and I was woken by two children and a large dog splashing around in it. I decided to go for a walk, and found ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Claudia Piñeiro

12 There are too many people on the corner of Rivadavia and Callao for a normal Saturday afternoon. And there’s too much noise. Why did he tell her to come ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Patrick Symmes [Symmes, Patrick]

Obviously, this was not Cuban Comandante Che Guevara writing, but an uncommitted observer, inspired more by basic hopes of justice and dignity—bread for the poor—than by specific plans for realizing ...
( Category: Adventure November 26,2014 )
mobi |es | 2009-10-24 | Author:Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

10. Guerra social Que cherchez-vous? Si vous êtes jaloux de voir un assemblage effrayant de maux et d'horreurs vous l'avez trouvé. SHAKESPEARE. Oncativo. ¿Qué había sido de Facundo, entre tanto? ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American November 11,2014 )