LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH PHRASEBOOK: THE RIGHT WORD IN YOUR POCKET
Author: A.M. Garrido
Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
ISBN-13: 9780007246724
In all of the most common travel situations, non-natives need the reassurance that they can communicate easily. A reliable, portable, and easy-to-use phrasebook is a travel essential, and the completely re-designed Collins Gems assures you that the right word will always be at your fingertips. This indispensable language guide covers the topics and phrases that crop up every day on vacation, from finding a hotel to choosing wine. With fully updated travel information and tips, a 3,000 word dictionary, a comprehensive menu decoder, grammar and pronunciation sections, you need never be lost for words again.
INSIGHT GUIDES SOUTH AMERICA
Author: Insight Guides
Publisher: Insight Guides
ISBN-13: 9781839052606
Insight Guide to South America is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to South America, choosing what to see, from exploring Rio de Janeiro to discovering the Lake District or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Iguazú Falls, Lake Titicaca. Fully updated post-COVID-19, this is an ideal travel guide for travellers seeking inspiration, in-depth cultural and historical information about South America as well as a great selection of places to see during your trip.
TRAVELS WITH RACHEL: IN SEARCH OF SOUTH AMERICA
Author: George Mahood
Publisher: Independently published
ISBN-13: 9781976714818
Knee-deep in a swamp in the depths of the Bolivian jungle, hunting for anacondas in a pair of sandals, it occurred to George that perhaps he should have booked that all-inclusive honeymoon to the Maldives after all. Join George and Rachel on their hilarious journey through the wilds of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia as they climb volcanoes, fish for piranhas, trek through the Amazon rainforest, take death-defying bus rides, sample some of the continent’s strangest delicacies, and try to get to Machu Picchu. Armed only with basic Spanish and bags of enthusiasm, they set off on a life-changing adventure.
GREAT ESCAPES LATIN AMERICA: THE HOTEL BOOK
Author: Christiane Reiter
Publisher: Taschen America Llc; Multilingual edition
ISBN-13: 9783836584357
Latin America is a cradle of ancient civilizations like those of the Incas, Maya and Aztecs, and later it became the goal of European explorers and immigrants. It looks back on a long history, often full of contrasts and contradictions, but also has a very special multicultural atmosphere. This book presents unique, almost breathtakingly beautiful landscapes and places with extraordinary hotels. Short texts and practical information complement the superb photos. Great Escapes Latin America features accommodations that range from Mexico to Patagonia and Easter Island, spanning Central and South America’s forests, beaches, mountains, and deserts.
Understanding Latin America from The University of Alabama Press
UNITED STATES-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1850-1903
Edited by: Thomas M. Leonard
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 9780817358235
During the second half of the 19th century, several forces in the United States, Latin America, and Europe converged to set the stage for establishing a more permanent relationship between the United States and Latin America. The key factors--security, economics, and modernization--created both commonalities and conflicts between and among regions. In this volume, scholars examine not only the domestic but also the geopolitical forces that encouraged and guided development of diplomatic relations in this rapidly changing period. United States-Latin American Relations establishes a historical perspective crucial to understanding contemporary diplomatic relations.
POPULISM IN LATIN AMERICA
Edited by: Michael L. Conniff
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 9780817357092
This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular. For over one hundred years, Latin American populists proved amazingly successful at gaining high office, holding on to power, maintaining their followings, and renewing their careers. Populism in Latin America examines the notion of populism in the political and social culture of Latin American societies as expressed through the populist leaders of several Latin American countries including Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
GERMANY IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Author: Thomas Schoonover
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 9780817354138
Using previously untapped resources, including private collections, the records of cultural institutions, and federal and state government archives, Schoonover analyzes the German role in Central American domestic and international relations. Of the four countries most active in independent Central America -Britain, the United States, France, and Germany- historians know the least about the full extent of the involvement of the Germans. Although the simplistic bargain to trade economic development for cheap labor appeared to succeed in the short term, complex issues of German domestic unemployment and social disorder filtered to Central American countries and added to their own burdens.
WRITING FROM THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, THE MEMOIRS OF DARIÉN 1514-1527
Author: Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 9780817353391
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo is the 16th-century author of Historia general y natural de las Indias, a general and natural history of the peoples and places he encountered in his travels to Spanish America. This annotated translation contains the section of Oviedo’s work that recounts his experience in the New World during his service in Panama. Dille includes a brief introduction to Oviedo and provides general information on the political background of Spain and on the Spanish colonial system, the printing history of the text, a description of the reception of Oviedo’s work, and notes on the translation.
