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Travelling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado
RRP: $23.08$16.32In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family decided to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Argentina on a 1949 Norton 500cc motorbike... -
The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence by Emma Reyes
RRP: $18.88$12.41In this startlingly original memoir, composed of twenty-three letters written over the course of thirty years, Emma Reyes describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing... -
The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Knight
RRP: $18.88$13.88The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more... -
America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream by Hugo Wong 9781805260561
RRP: $63.00$55.50From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US this chance for cultural and economic enrichment-but America gave the Chinese new perspectives and... -
The Sorrows of Mexico by Lydia Cacho
RRP: $27.28$17.18With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows... -
1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy by Susana Draper
RRP: $50.38$42.86Recognizing the fiftieth anniversary of the protests, strikes, and violent struggles that formed the political and cultural backdrop of 1968 across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Susana Draper offers a nuanced perspective of the 1968... -
Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick
RRP: $23.08$16.32*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's... -
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank
RRP: $52.48$31.82This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two... -
Politics after Violence: Legacies of the Shining Path Conflict in Peru by Hillel Soifer
RRP: $84.00$72.91Between 1980 and 1994, Peru endured a bloody internal armed conflict, with some 69,000 people killed in clashes involving two insurgent movements, state forces, and local armed groups. In 2003, a government-sponsored "Truth and Reconciliation Committee"... -
The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood Ferreira 9780819570826
RRP: $46.10$37.67Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction... -
Night of Sorrows: War God Trilogy: Book Three by Graham Hancock
RRP: $23.08$16.17Cortes and his small army of Conquistadors enter Tenochtitlan, the island city of the Aztecs, as guests of the psychotic emperor Moctezuma who plans to trap them there and kill them all. In a stunning coup, Cortes acts first, taking the emperor hostage... -
Teotihuacan - The World Beyond the City by David M. Carballo
RRP: $132.20$106.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024675Author Kenneth G. HirthFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations by Frances F. Berdan
RRP: $37.80$27.22In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan casts fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths and human sacrifice. While often... -
The Story of Che Guevara by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
RRP: $27.28$17.18An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the... -
Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth by David Carrasco 9780872209336
RRP: $35.68$29.00Based on the most recent archaeological discoveries, this volume offers a balanced interpretation of the complex relationships between Aztec cultural practices, social order, and religious myths and symbols. In addition to examining such topics as the... -
Panda in the Spotlight by Sarah Horne 9781913696245
RRP: $14.68$13.19The panda-tastic sequel to Sarah Horne's huggable debut, Panda at the Door! 'Adorable fun!' SARAH MCINTYRE Life is good for Callum's family and Pudding, their panda. Pudding and Dad's hit stage show,... -
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht
$54.66The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forests. But is it truly in peril? And what steps are necessary to save it? To... -
The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America by Nancy Mitchell 9780807847756
RRP: $98.60$94.75American imperialism in Latin America at the beginning of the 20th century has been explained, in part, as a response to the threat posed by Germany in the region. But, as Nancy Mitchell demonstrates, the German actions that made the US defensive - and... -
The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Orin Starn
RRP: $56.68$48.83Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The... -
The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself by David Bushnell
RRP: $56.70$43.32Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous--as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers--makes this, the first history of Colombia... -
Summer of Hopes and Dreams by Sue McDonagh 9781781894965
RRP: $18.88$11.11Can "Dozy Rosie" spice up her life and prove she's not boring? Rosie Bunting has spent her life caring for others, often at the expense of her own hopes and dreams. But when she overhears somebody describing her as "boring", she... -
Witches by Brenda Lozano
RRP: $23.08$14.81A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers.'You can't really know another woman until you know yourself.'Weaving together two parallel narratives, this is the story of Feliciana,... -
South American Battleships 1908-59 by Mark Lardas
RRP: $23.08$18.42In 1908 the most incredible naval arms race in history began. Flush with cash from rubber and coffee, Brazil decided to order three of the latest, greatest category of warship available - the dreadnought battleship. One Brazilian dreadnought by itself... -
Samba by Alma Guillermoprieto 9780679732563
RRP: $42.00$29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679732563Author Alma GuillermoprietoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm)... -
A Dream Deferred: Guyanese Identity and the Shadow of Colonialism by Stephen Spencer 9781870518772
RRP: $16.78$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518772Author Stephen SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 173g -
Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $18.88$12.43Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor. Yet the complex story of Britain's relationship with this distant, tiny island... -
Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony by Matthew Parker
RRP: $33.58$24.38At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was an intoxicating possibility, a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland.Ambitious and free-thinking... -
Congo Diary: Episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto Che Guevara
RRP: $31.48$20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210727Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Falklands Guns: The Story of the Captured Argentine Artillery that Became Part of the RAF Regiment by Wing Commander Mike Fonfe
RRP: $52.50$37.00The Oerlikon twin 35mm anti-aircraft gun was the one weapon in the Argentine armoury which had a major impact on the British air campaign during the Falklands Conflict in 1982. Indeed, General Mario Benjamin Men ndez, transient Argentine Governor of Las... -
Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts by Chris McNab
RRP: $83.98$54.31When HMS Dreadnought was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1906 this revolutionary new class of big-gun iron-clad warship immediately changed the face of naval warfare, rendering all other battleships worldwide obsolete. The Admiralty realised that as... -
Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself by Julian Manyon
RRP: $42.00$28.27'Fascinating ... if this gripping account teaches anything, it is the folly of tyrannical regimes believing they can act with the same violence and impunity abroad as they do at home' THE SPECTATOR'Heart-thumpingly powerful ... history told from the... -
The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War by Todd W. Wahlstrom 9781496222213
RRP: $46.18$39.46After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of... -
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America by Michael Reid
RRP: $33.58$26.50A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has... -
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Juarez by Sandra Rodriguez Nieto
RRP: $20.98$13.94The intimate story of a teenager s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like... -
Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro by Richard Lapper
RRP: $31.48$17.70Backed by Brazil's wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. Driven by the former army captain's brand of controversial, aggressive rhetoric, the divisive... -
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement 9780099587590
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on the... -
The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil by Anthony Knivet
RRP: $48.28$37.99This is the first critical edition of the original 1625 travel account by Anthony Knivet, an Englishman who spent nine years in Brazil in the last decade of the sixteenth century. His is the oldest extensive account of Brazil written by an Englishman,... -
The History of Venezuela by H. Michael Tarver
RRP: $35.68$26.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403962607Author H. Michael TarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 194gDimensions(mm) 209mm... -
Silver, Sword and Stone: The Story of Latin America in Three Extraordinary Lives by Marie Arana 9781474600989
RRP: $27.28$17.18The timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation, violence, and religion.Leonor Gonzales, a miner's widow, lives in a tiny community perched... -
Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing by Michael T. Taussig
$71.27Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative...