South America

In August 1960 the publication of Quarto de Despejo (Child of the Dark) created a sensation in Brazil—and in the rest of the world—as it appeared in tr...

Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American coloni...

Follow the riveting account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England--p...

Now re-releasing as a part of the Lives of Faith series, the story of Jim Elliot’s life and martyrdom is one of the great missionary stories of modern tim...

A masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, this blockbuster adventure takes listeners on a gripping journey into the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove...

From the moment he was shot down to the final whistle, Jimmy James' one aim as a POW of the Germans was to escape.The movie, The Great Escape, describes his...

Formerly the viceregal capital of Spain's vast South American empire, Lima is today a sprawling metropolis struggling to cope with a population of eight mil...

With the sudden Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined...

In Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers, Rafael Varón Gabai breaks fresh ground in his reconstruction of the Pizarros’ conquest as a new form of busi...

Reding's Account Of The Ten Months [in 1995] He Spent In Middle Cisnes, Patagonia, Is A Riveting, Novelistic Exploration Of The Longing For Change By A Peop...

Extremely Influential Cultural Analysis By Uruguayan Author Published Posthumously In 1984. Chasteen's Very Good English Translation Includes Entire Text Wi...

William Rowe And Vivian Schelling. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Business & Money EconomicsEnvironmental Economics