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1.In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $8.64

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Chatwin captures the essence of Patagonia page after page, and I really enjoyed how he described the bleakness of the land but also how he found and described interesting people along the way. His adjectives were wonderful. He's right up there with best travel writers of all time, including some of... more info

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2.My Invented Country: A MemoirMy Invented Country: A Memoir
from Harper Perennial
Price: $2.94

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I am a fan of memoirs, so I came to this with a lot of expectation. To be sure, Allende is a great storyteller and I look forward to reading her novels. Her stories are often quite serious and paint a picture of her life and the context quite well, which is the purpose of a memoir in the end. She is... more info

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3.Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--a Deck s-eye View of Cape HornRounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View of Cape Horn
from Basic Books
Price: $5.99

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Rounding the Horn--Dallas Murphy
A masterly and vivid account of the harrowing travails sailors faced in rounding Cape Horn in the age of sail. You feel like "you-were-there" because Murphy describes his personal feelings of being dwarfed by the very vastness and treacherous conditions of the... more info

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4.Birds of Chile (Princeton Field Guides)Birds of Chile (Princeton Field Guides)
from Princeton University Press
Price: $26.84

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This was very useful while on a 5 week trip to chile. I was able to key out every new bird that I found. I like that the author had the spanish and english name for the bird. The Chileans who I traveled with always called the birds by the Spanish (Chilean) name. What was interesting is that all of... more info

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5.The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the AndesThe Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes
from Westview Press
Price: $6.00

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Eight months of the year I live in Andes, in small farming community, three hours from Cusco, Peru. I sought-out this text to enrich my historical and ethnographical understanding of Peru, but after plowing through professor Mayer's erudite monograph on Andean peasant economies I came away with... more info

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6.Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica (Collins Illustrated Checklist)Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica (Collins Illustrated Checklist)
from Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Price: $102.67

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This field guide was an excellent addition to our trip to Argentina (Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls National Park). It is easy to transport in a backpack (small and not too heavy) and the color plates make it relatively easy to identify the birds we saw. In addition, the geographic plates were useful... more info

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7.A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under PinochetA Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet
from W. W. Norton & Company
Price: $9.95

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This sophisticated, devastatingly clear and well-written book, explains why Chile specifically is important to the intellectual history of world political movements, and thus, to international political relationships more generally. Told through the eyes of survivors on all sides of a very rigidly... more info

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8.The Dictator s Shadow: Life Under Augusto PinochetThe Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet
from Basic Books
Price: $11.85

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This is a serene , well written and easy to read annalysis of a cruel period in the history of Chile. A must for those who want to learn from the mistakes of the past and to learn that repression, hate, absence of the rule of law and of political freedom are not the only possible ways to accomplish... more info

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9.Natural Patagonia Patagonia natural: Argentina and ChileNatural Patagonia / Patagonia natural: Argentina & Chile
from Pangaea
Price: $15.50

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Photos are so, so... after visiting Patagonia live, just awesome, its people and gastronomy superb, definitely recommended, book and visit!!

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10.The History of Chile (Palgrave Essential Histories)The History of Chile (Palgrave Essential Histories)
from Palgrave Macmillan
Price: $15.39

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This is a concise, well-written and comprehensive history of Chile, one of the America's oldest democracies until the 1973 military coup. It provides an interesting overview of the country's complex history. In the account of the country's return to democracy following the 1973 coup, it presents a... more info

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