Search Results for ‘South America’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 37 matches found

Chasing Che

Armed with a notebook and a copy of Che's Motorcycle Diaries, Patrick Symmes sets off on his R80 G/S to follow the route from Cordoba, in Argentina, south and then up north through Chile, Peru and finishing...

Ghost Train Through The Andes

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. In...

Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World

Lone Traveller is based on Anne Mustoe's second ride round the world. Taking historical routes as her inspiration again, she followed the Roman roads from Rome to Lisbon, travelled across South America...

The Meaning of Tingo

Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...

Thunder & Sunshine - Around the World by Bike, part 2

Thunder & Sunshine tells the second part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous...

The Cloud Garden

The Darién Gap is a place of legend. The only break in the Pan-American highway, which runs from Alaska to the tip of South America, it is an almost impregnable strip of swamp, jungle and cloud forest...

Conquistadors

Michael Wood travels in the footsteps of some of the most remarkable Spanish adventurers as they strive to open up the Americas. He retraces the expeditions of Cortes and Pizarro amongst others, experiencing...

The Creature in the Map

The idea of El Dorado (a great, golden city) has fevered imaginations since the late 1530's. This is a reconstruction of Sir Walter Ralegh's 1595 expeditoin to quest for the mythical city. Includes...

The Fruit Palace

A glimpse into the life of Latin America's urban poor. A brilliant book, informative, well-written and fun to read.

The Motorcycle Diaries

These are the diaries written by Che Guevara through South In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One...

Trekking Through the New Worlds

Having been born into a stone age society, the author became Papua New Guinea's Representative at the UN. This is the account of hi travels through Latin America.

A Death In Brazil

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2005 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
Delving into Brazil’s baroque past, Peter Robb’s “A Death in Brazil” looks at its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed...

Between Extremes

Throughout their long captivity in a Lebanese dungeon, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan would often retreat to the lost paradises of their imagination, and particularly to the Chile of Isabel Allende...

Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul

As John Malathronas writes in “Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul”:
‘In Brazil the motto seems to be: if you’ve got it, flaunt it, and if you don’t, flaunt it even more’
An eclectic nation that evokes images...

Chile: Travels in a Thin Country

This new edition features an introduction following Sara Wheeler’s most recent trip back to Chile, taken with her eight year old son. In it she discusses the numerous changes that have taken place in...

Cocaine Train

One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly 'massacre', drink drivers play chicken and kidnap stories pass for dinner party conversation; nine times more dangerous...

Cochineal Red - Travels Through Ancient Peru

In the fascinating “Cochineal Red” Hugh Thomson's details his extensive travels through the principal sites of Ancient Peru, intelligently weaving five turbulent millennia of Peruvian history, expert...

In Bear Country

Bears are a symbol of the health of an ecosystem - and the global population is dwindling to the point where only eight different species remain. These creatures have long fascinated us and their influence...

Inca-Kola: A Traveller's Tale of Peru

Funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris's fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among bandits, prostitutes, peasants and riots. He and his three companions seem to head into trouble...

Lost City of the Incas

First published in the 1950s, “The Lost City of the Incas” by Hiram Bingham is the amazing account of the impressive discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. Re-published now with an introduction...