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The Conquest of The Incas
by John Hemming
Historian John Hemming brings a fresh and exciting perspective to one of the most intriguing aspects of early modern history; the subjugation of the ancient Latin American peoples by Spanish explorers,...
- Publisher: Pan Books
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Marching Powder
by Rusty Young
Marching Powder by Rusty Young is a real-life story of a British drug smuggler who ended up in Bolivia’s most notorious jail; a shocking yet darkly comic account of an almost other world. Life in...
- Publisher: Pan Books
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Ghost Train Through The Andes
by Michael Jacobs
Michael Jacobs started the to read the lengthy and intimate letters that his grandfather Bethel had written to his wife Sophie from nine thousand miles away in the remote corner of South America. I...
- Publisher: John Murray
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Full Circle
by Michael Palin
Michael Palin travels Full Circle through 18 countries encircling the Pacific - the world’s largest ocean - in a journey he describes as full of dazzling surprises and jarring extremes, beauty and ugli...
- Publisher: Phoenix
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Chasing Che
by Patrick Symmes
Patrick Symmes’ “Chasing Che” sees the journalist takes a trail attempted by so many in search of the real Che Guevara and how he became an icon of a people.

In 1952, 24-year-old Ernesto Guevara...
- Publisher: Robinson Publishing
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Lonely Planet Countries and Regions Guides

The Countries and Regions series from Lonely Planet are market-leading comprehensive guides aimed at independent travellers and serve a large range of international destinations. Frank and informal...
- Publisher: Lonely Planet
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Cambridge University Concise Histories

Cambridge University Press’s Concise History series explores the history of a range of countries worldwide. Chronicling the country’s modern history since the Middle Ages, each title in the series...
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Lost In The Jungle
by Yossi Ghinsberg
Yossi Ghinsberg’s Lost in the Jungle is the kind of story that seems like a grisly piece of fiction until it becomes even more nail-biting when you read that it was true. And it happened to Yossi...
- Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
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The Bolivian Diary - Che Part 2
by Che Guevara
"Home will be the open sky... each guerrilla fighter is ready to die not just to defend an idea, but to make that idea a reality."

With an introduction by Fidel Castro, this is Che Guevara's...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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Amazon
by Bruce Parry
In Amazon Bruce Parry undertakes another epic journey, in the same vein as his adventures in Tibe, tracing the 6,000km route of the Amazon river from source to ocean. Along the way Bruce meets the...
- Publisher: Penguin
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Che Guevara & The Mountain Of Silver
by ANNE MUSTOE
In her brand-new travelogue, intrepid ex-headmistress and bestselling author Anne Mustoe dusts off the bicycle clips once more and embarks on a remarkable journey through South America. Following in...
- Publisher: Virgin Publishing
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The Gringo Trail
by Mann, Mark
'...there I was in the middle of Bogota, coked up to my eyeballs, in a hallway holding two machetes, while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade.....
- Publisher: Summersdale Publishers