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En su pasaje de su prólogo al Viaje al río de la Plata, Bartolomé Mitre afirma:
El juicio respecto del libro de Schmídel, Viaje al río de la Plata, está definitivamente formado y es unánime. Hulsius dice que leyó el manuscrito original «con placer y admiración». Camus, entre otros méritos, le reconoce el ser uno de los primeros que se hayan escrito sobre esta parte de la América meridional.
Azara, tan severo con los cronistas del Río...
62) The Coca Box
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Funny and fanciful, this is a book about a Coca Box, and an unlikely travel foursome exploring the art and archaeology of Peru. Except that one member of the team likes to collect Pre-Columbian pottery. If trafficking in archaeological materials is unlawful, it seems to matter little, and in the end, it appears her efforts were futile. Everything she bought was fake. Or was it? We may never know. Meantime we bounce over desert tracks along Perus North...
63) Montevideo
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This edition of the Bradt guide to Montevideo by expert author Tim Burford combines information on what to see and do with maps, walking and bicycle tours , historical and cultural attractions plus recommendations for hotels, restaurants, cafés and bars and detailed information on city transport, shopping and activities all detailed along with a history of the city. It is written in an engaging and colourful style that aims to entertain as well as...
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Samba the night away in Lapa, people-watch and sip sunset cocktails on Ipanema Beach or get up close to Christ the Redeemer and marvel at the panoramic view of Rio; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Rio de Janeiro and...
65) Bolivia
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Bolivia is home to enormous biodiversity: surreal volcanic landscapes, lush valleys, vast salt flats and Amazon jungle. Footprint's 6th edition Bolivia Handbook will guide you from the blinding-white expanse of Salar de Uyuni and racing round hairpin bends on the most dangerous road in the world to the stunning turquoise of Lake Titicaca. • Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the country, including trekking, wildlife spotting & the...
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The author is researching a history of Bolivia and is determined to visit every corner of that vast country - famous for its extremes. Along the way he visits arid deserts and steaming jungles, tours silver, copper, tin and led mines high in the Andes. He travels the most dangerous roads in the Americas. Rides buses, trains, trucks, boats and even an ox cart. He is one of the last people to take the steamer across Lake Titicaca and to ride the infamous...
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Patricia Woodard had always wanted to live and work in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then in the summer of 1975 while she was teaching summer school in her hometown of Whiteville, North Carolina, she received a telegram offering her a teaching position in Bogot, Colombia. Excited and stunned to finally be realizing her dream, she accepted the offer and set off for a year high on a plateau in the Andes Mountains. Several years...
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A ride from the Alto Plano of Bolivia and Peru to the frozen tip of Patagonia; on the world's most dangerous road, where the stakes are high, on to Argentina's fabled Ruta 40, where the steaks are large and cheap. Across salt pans, into mud holes, up the Andes and down again; past the ruins of the ruins of Macchu Pichu, and on the edge of the epicentre of the Chilean earthquake. Through a land of contrasts - mountains and lowlands, deserts and glaciers,...
69) Bogotana
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La narradora chilena Alejandra Costamagna viaja a Bogotá convocada por un encuentro de escritura in situ. En diez días registra las frecuencias del habla, los lenguajes impredecibles del cielo, las narrativas del horror, la violencia que colinda con el goce y la rumba. El escritor venezolano Slavko Zupcic recorre Bogotá muchos años antes, por medio del castellano dulce de sus amigos colombianos migrantes, sin nunca visitarla. La imaginó como...
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Begin your tango journey to Buenos Aires! Experience the tango dance halls (milongas), the dinner shows, tango bars, and restaurants that feature tango. Learn where the icons of tango are immortalized. Know where to dance and what is expected of the visitor who traverses the culture of tango. The author, a single woman traveling alone, visited Buenos Aries many times over many years. Recently, she lived there for a year, keeping a journal of her...
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Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
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2014.
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xiv, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
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Harcourt
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c2001
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
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All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabut?, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.
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Explora la Fascinante Historia de los Incas
Una de las culturas antiguas más notables de Sudamérica es, sin lugar a dudas, la civilización inca. Reinaron sobre el imperio más grande de Sudamérica; no solo eso, su imperio era también el más grande del mundo en ese momento.
Hay muchos misterios que rodean a los incas. ¿Dónde se originaron? ¿Cómo llegaron a reinar sobre un imperio tan vasto que incluía montañas, selvas tropicales y zonas...
80) The gold eaters
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Riverhead Books
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2015.
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xiii, 367 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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"A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish...
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