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Insight Guide South America (Insight Guides South America)by Natalie Minnis List Price: $24.95 Available from Amazon $16.47 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description One of over 400 titles in the Insight series, Insight Guide South America. This 421-page book includes a section detailing the history of all the South American countries, features covering the continent's life and culture, ranging from the ancient mysterious mountaintop citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru to the "Paris of South America" that is Buenos Aires, a country by country visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many astounding photographs and 17 maps.
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Footprint Chile (Footprint Chile Handbook)by ToGreen and Janak Jani List Price: $22.95 Available from Amazon $14.92 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Chile has just about everything a traveler could possibly want: traveling from north to south, it is possible to see the highest geyser, the driest desert and one of the highest lakes in the world; a flowering desert; schools of dolphins; the Andes; forests of monkey puzzle trees; temperate rainforest; the Patagonian ice-field; the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego; and the islands near Cape Horn. Completely revised and updated, this popular guide to Chile prized for its currency, accuracy, and variety includes up-to-date, critical listings of the best and most interesting places to stay, eat, drink, and party, on any budget. A special feature is devoted to the growing adventure travel scene, from climbing active volcanoes and horseback riding along empty beaches to white-water rafting and trekking in one of the world's finest national parks, Torres del Paine in Patagonia. |
Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Vintage)by Jorge G. Castaneda List Price: $16.00 Available from Amazon $10.40 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Library Journal With the partial opening of Cuban archives to foreign scholars and increased access to Cuban historical individuals come back to back two important new biographies of the Argentinean-born Cuban revolutionary leader and ideologue, Che Guevara. First there was American journalist Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara (LJ 4/15/97) and now this one, by one of Mexico's leading political writers and a professor of international affairs (New York Univ.). Though the two volumes cover similar territory, they are not the same. Anderson's volume is the larger and occasionally includes greater detail on aspects of Che's life, but Casta?eda takes more of an academic approach and is better at placing Che in the context of Cuban and world history. Anderson writes journalistically, while Casta?eda is perceptive and creative. This biography is an important addition to our understanding of Che and the Cuban revolution and will be valuable to any library interested in the history of the 20th century. -?Mark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Utah Copyright 1997 Reed business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The New Yorker, Alma Guillermoprieto Che's life following the revolution's triumph was a slow accretion of wreckage, and it is in the narration of this collapse that Companero, Jorge Castaneda's beautiful and passionate biography, is most lucid. Castaneda is as unflinching as his hero: he has searched CIA records and the recollections of Guevara's closest comrades in order to prise away layers of after-the-fact justifications and embellishments of the Che legend. In the process, he makes Ernesto Guevara understandable at last, and his predicament deeply moving. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
1,000 Places to See Before You Dieby Patricia Schultz List Price: $18.95 Available from Amazon $12.32 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly This hefty volume reminds vacationers that hot tourist spots are small percentage of what's worth seeing out there. A quick sampling: Venice's Cipriani Hotel; California's Monterey Peninsula; the Lewis and Clark Trail in Oregon; the Great Wall of China; Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Western Samoa; and the Alhambra in Andalusia, Spain. Veteran travel guide writer Schultz divides the book geographically, presenting a little less than a page on each location. Each entry lists exactly where to find the spot (e.g. Moorea is located "12 miles/19 km northwest of Tahiti; 10 minutes by air, 1 hour by boat") and when to go (e.g., if you want to check out The Complete Fly Fisher hotel in Montana, "May and Sept.-Oct. offer productive angling in a solitary setting"). This is an excellent resource for the intrepid traveler. Copyright 2003 Reed business Information, Inc. Book Description Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books, the New York Times bestseller that's been hailed by CBS-TV as one of the best books of the year and praised by Newsweek as the "book that tells you what's beautiful, what's inspiring, what's fun and what's just unforgettable everywhere on earth." Packed with recommendations of the world's best places to visit, on and off the beaten path, 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE is a joyous, passionate gift for travelers, an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of beaches, museums, monuments, islands, inns, restaurants, mountains, and more. There's Botswana's Okavango Delta, the covered souks of Aleppo, the Tuscan hills surrounding San Gimignano, Canyon de Chelly, the Hassler hotel in Rome, Ipanema Beach, the backwaters of Kerala, Oaxaca's Saturday market, the Buddhas of Borobudur, Ballybunion golf club-all the places guaranteed to give you the shivers. The prose is gorgeous, seizing on exactly what makes each entry worthy of inclusion. And, following the romance, the nuts and bolts: addresses, phone and fax numbers, web sites, costs, and best times to visit.
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