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Relates the role of William Miller, son of a Kent baker who fought in the Peninsular War, commanded Cochrane's marines in the Pacific and became the only foreign general instrumental in the ... read more

English Liberator: The Struggle for Independence in Spanish South Amer ...

John Hemming

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The latest in this excellent series on regional/national mythologies from Thames & Hudson.

The Maya Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors ...

Mallory Matsumoto

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Brilliant evocations of vast spaces, isolation, nondescript places and disjointed ways of life, by a native of Patagonia. Published in Spanish in 2005, this is its first English translation.

False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia ...

Maria Sonia Cristoff

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Wool barons, pirates and Pole-seekers in South Georgia, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay: kaleidoscopic.

Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South Ame ...

Shafik Meghji

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7/20 of a limited edition of twenty, in a black cloth slip-case. Beautifully bound with bold cover artwork in sumptuous colours. Much of the Llanos, the tropical plain situated east of the A... read more

Canto Llano: Encounters in a Flowering Paradise

Helen Cowcher

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Much of the Llanos, the tropical plain situated east of the Andes in Venezuela, has been devastated to create grazing areas for cattle. Hato Piñero, a nature reserve of 80,00 hectares, has ... read more

Canto Llano: Encounters in a Flowering Paradise

Helen Cowcher

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A new history of North and South America charting their relationship across the centuries, and exploring how they have defined themselves through engagement with and in opposition to each ot... read more

America, America: A New History of the New World

Greg Grandin

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In the concluding part of his trilogy about Nazi war criminals and the law, Sands turns to Pinochet, Chile's Disappeared and a former SS officer.

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Pata ...

Philippe Sands

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Growing up in C19th San Francisco, Emilia returns to Chile to report on the civil war and to discover her father.

My Name is Emilia del Valle

Isabel Allende

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Vibrant, vital works by a hundred leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native American identity explore the complex connectivity of race, the climate crisis and coloniali... read more

Black Earth Rising

Ekow Eshun

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This Carrolian pursuit of realms beyond the modern borders - lost utopias, Amazonian city-states, alternative narratives - is as much an intellectual journey as it is physical.

Patria: Lost Countries of South America

Laurence Blair

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From Central America to Tierra del Fuego in the mid-1970s, by whatever means possible. Drawing on her letters and diaries of the time, Stewart writes engagingly about her adventures and the ... read more

A Long Way South: Salvaged Memories from Travels in Latin America ...

Sara Stewart

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The great C19th Brazilian writer is being introduced again to an English readership in a series of new translations by Javier Marias's superb translator. De Assis feels modern, funny and shr... read more

Quincas Borba: A Novel

Machado de Assis

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Responses to various ethnographic documents in the British Museum by six writers, including Philippe Sands and Juan Gabriel Vasquez.

Explorers Dreamers and Thieves: Latin American Writers in the British ...

Carolina Orloff

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Lonely Planet South America

Lonely Planet

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Latitude: The astonishing adventure that shaped the world ...

Nicholas Crane

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Every summer a married woman travels to the same place on holiday and takes a new lover - for one night only. A late and previously unpublished novel.

Until August

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Glamorous pictures of the iconic Brazilian hotel, patronised by the author's family since it opened in 1923. Matteoli has included many anecdotes of former days.

Copacabana Palace: Where Rio Starts

Francisca Matteoli

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The history and folklore of Peru told in a series of photo essays. Very large format.

Peru

Mariano Vivanco

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A 1992 version of this superb C19th Brazilian domestic drama got into the Evening Standard bestseller list thanks to Sandoe's...

Dom Casmurro: A Novel

Machado de Assis

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In two volumes: the photographs in part 1 were taken in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020. Those in part 2 were taken at a sanctuary in Bolivia in 2022. (Each volume is available individually,... read more

Nick Brandt: The Day May Break: 2 volume set

Nadine Barth

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This book of seven essays describes the Nobel laureate's intellectual journey from the "Marxism and Sartrean existentialism of my youth to the liberalism of my mature years." Adam Smith, Hay... read more

The Call of the Tribe: Essays

Mario Vargas Llosa

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AZ conjures lives, relationships, families, political upheavals in just a few paragraphs. This clever, tranquil novella begins with a professor telling his stepdaughter a bedtime story about... read more

The Private Lives of Trees

Alejandro Zambra

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The writer's personal history interwoven with Chile's past, especially the Pinochet era and its extrajudicial killings.

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Nona Fernandez

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From the mercurial C19th Brazilian master... One of Pushkin Press's attractive paperbacks.

The Looking-Glass: Essential Stories

Machado de Assis

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Using episodes in the life of the film director Sergio Cabrera, the Colombian novelist shows how ideologies mark personal lives.

Retrospective

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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A collection of essays about this most extraordinary C17th woman, artist, traveller and naturalist; looks at her methods and materials, her journey to Suriname, her entomological studies, he... read more

Maria Sibylla Merian: Changing the Nature of Art and Science ...

Marieke van Delft

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An elegant Penguin edition of Lispector's despatches on daily life for the Jornal do Brasil between 1967 and 1977.

Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles

Clarice Lispector

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In 1864 the Austrian Archduke Maximilian went to assume a distant throne. The operatic episode ended in his death by firing squad, famously memorialised by Manet.

The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World ...

Edward Shawcross

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The life of Violeta, of her family, friends and lovers, told in letters to a beloved grandson. Born in 1920 and in her hundredth year, Violeta's story encompasses Chile's C20th struggles.

Violeta

Isabel Allende

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Over 600 recipes, from the Peruvian chef whose own restaurant has been named the #1 restaurant in Latin America many times over.

The Latin American Cookbook

Virgilio Martinez

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In this new book Sinclair has abandoned London for Peru, in an attempt to understand his great-grandfather's colonial career. The narrative Sinclair grew up with ends up as self-serving flot... read more

The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers ...

Iain Sinclair

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Not to be confused with Dawa Sobel's 'Longitude'.

Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth ...

Nicholas Crane

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Explores the world and campaigns of the late-medieval imperialists, the Christian adventurers whose mind-sets are as remote to us today as were those of the Aztecs and Incas to them.

Conquistadores

Fernando Cervantes

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Short stories of subtle moral complexity by the great Colombian author.

Songs for the Flames

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New ...

Alexander Humboldt

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