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South America

• Venezuela
• Colombia
• Guyana
• Ecuador & Galapagos
• Peru
• Bolivia
• Paraguay
• Uruguay
• Chile
• Argentina
• Brazil
• St Helena

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  Galapagos Wildlife by Bradt

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  We highly recommend taking an additional wildlife guide with you to the Galapagos and this one is concise, well illustrated and thorough.

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  Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon

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  One of the most exciting of a new generation of South America authors, Daniel Alarcon tells the story of Norma, a survivor of the brutal civil war who reads out the names of the missing on her radio show every evening. One day a boy from the Peruvian jungle walks in to the station with news of a husband she has not seen for ten years. Powerful, evocative and extremely moving.

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  Chile: Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler

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  Sara Wheeler travels the 2,600 mile length of Chile from the deserts of the north to the fjords of the south. Her anecdotes, from eating a llama sandwich to visiting a sex hotel, are entertaining, highly amusing and informative.

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  By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano

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  On the last night of his life, Chilean priest and member of Opus Dei, Father Sebastian, recalls his life as a literary critic, repressed homosexual and Marxist teacher to Pinochet. The backdrop to Bolano's satiric masterpiece, is the brutal, violent history of Chile. Highly recommended.

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  A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb

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  A passionate, musical ode to Brazil, Peter Robb describes the food, the culture, the rich and the poor of this diverse and beautiful country to give us a captivating, all-encompassing portrait of Brazil.

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  Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano

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  Probably our most favourite book from this extraordinary, surreal Chilean writer. Insightful and blackly comic, he imagines entirely fictional biographies of right-wing authors.

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  Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano & Cedric Belfrage

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  A 500 year history of the exploitation of South America from the colonial invaders to the present day American capitalists. An important, ground-breaking book which Hugo Chavez controversially presented to Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas.

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  Colombia by Footprint

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  An excellent guide to Colombia for the traveller on a budget, provides detailed background information on history and culture with a range of hotels and restaurant recommendations.

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  Delirium by Laura Restrepo

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  Returning home from a business trip, Aguliar finds that his wife has gone insane; he must search among the detritus of her disturbing past in order to help her. A haunting book where the madness of the heroine reflects the madness of Colombia, described by Jose Saramago as one of the finest novels written in recent memory.

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  The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres

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  The first in Louis de Bernieres' enchanting, magical, funny and moving trilogy set in a fictional Colombia where people turn into giant cats, the president dies on the toilet and vicious drugs barons and the militia cause havoc and destruction. Highly recommended.

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  Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  A short, tense and exquisitely-pitched novel constructed like a police statement, which tells the story of the brothers of a young woman, compelled by tradition to kill her lover. Nobel Prize-winning Gabriel Garcia Marquez's powerful indictment of a community trapped by a code of behaviour.

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  Ecuador & Galapagos by Footprint

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  The Footprint guides are particularly good for South America offering a mix of practical, cultural and historical information for the traveller on any budget. Includes 40 pages on the Galapagos Islands.

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  The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner

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  Two scientists, living on a deserted island in the Galapagos, have spent the last 20 years proving that evolution is taking place so quickly you can watch it happening. This remarkable book is an account of their research and their findings and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995.

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  This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson

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  This is a well-researched, fictional account of the voyage of the HMS Beagle and the friendship between Captain FitzRoy and his passenger, the young Charles Darwin. Longlisted for the Booker prize, this book is a beautifully-written, historical adventure.

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  Peruvian Wildlife by Bradt

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  A vibrant, photographic guide to the wildlife on Peru with over 220 colour photographs, colour maps of the seven best national parks and particular focus on species found above 3,000 metres and Manu National Park.

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  The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

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  A monk watches a bridge collapse over a gorge in Peru killing five people. He is compelled to explore the lives of these people in order to find some explanation for their deaths. A haunting, philosophical novella of immense power and charm.

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  The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa

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  A remarkable novel, and one of our favourites, Mario Vargas Llosa explores fragmented cultural identities in modern day Peru. Typical of his work, he alternates between realism – the search of a writer for his lost friend – and the bard-like voice of a tribal storyteller recounting the exquisitely poetic myths of the Machiguenga tribe.

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  Ancient Kingdoms of Peru by Nigel Davies

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  An entertaining, readable history of the civilisations and people of Peru before colonisation.

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  Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

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  This part-thriller, part-romance is based on a true story of the disappearance of a little girl called Evangelina from a small village in Chile in 1978. In an entertaining and nail-bitingly tense blend of fact and fiction, it exposes the corruption and violence of the state and the powerlessness of the Chilean people.

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  The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

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  Borges' enchanting and amusing commentary on imaginary beasts from the Brownies to the Valkyries, from the Three Legged Ass to the Eight-forked Serpent. Wonderful for children and adults alike.

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  The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene

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  Charley Fortnum, the drunk and slightly ridiculous "honorary consul", is kidnapped by a group of Argentinean guerrillas and while manning the negotiations, a local doctor begins to unravel the large scale corruption on both sides. An intense, powerful and political novel, considered to be one of Graham Greene's very best.

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  The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

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  An exquisite, deeply important piece of South American fiction inspired by H. G. Well's novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. At once a love story, a thriller and a vision of the future, Borges wrote of his friend's work, "to classify it as perfect is neither an imprecision nor a hyperbole." This New York Review edition also includes Casares' remarkable modernist illustrations.

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  In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

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  Bruce Chatwin's literary prose weaves together Patagonian anthropology, history and travel with such an easy and entertaining style you simply cannot believe you are learning so much about this wilderness of South America.

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  The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux

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  Begun on Boston's subway, this is Paul Theroux's journey down North and South America ending in the southern-most tip of Patagonia. Theroux's exquisite observations, entertaining anecdotes and meetings with extraordinary men, make this book very special indeed.

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  Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado

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  Dona Flor, recently remarried to a kind, considerate pharmacist, is being haunted by her lascivious, decadent and very much dead first husband. A delightfully funny and romantic book, with that Latin American twist.