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.Budget Traveller City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Marjorie Adoff Cohen 1979-05 >>See More Reviews & Details on Budget Traveller |
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.Running the Amazon City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Joe Kane 1995-12 Somebody had the dubious brainstorm of trying to find the source of the Amazon and follow it from a snowfield in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Of course when you're going to do something like that, you want a crackerjack team of people along to help out through the wild and dangerous spots, of which there are probably at least 2500 miles full of those two qualities along the 4200 mile journey. Whoever chose the team was smokin' something, because talk about your ill-assorted multinational party of eleven weirdos. Joe Kane, the sole American, came along as the journalist to document the whole affair - and he'd never paddled a whitewater canoe before in his life. His chances of even living thru the trip, let along being one of the ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Running the Amazon |
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.This Is Buenos Aires City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Lily Benmayor 1994-11 Somebody had the dubious brainstorm of trying to find the source of the Amazon and follow it from a snowfield in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Of course when you're going to do something like that, you want a crackerjack team of people along to help out through the wild and dangerous spots, of which there are probably at least 2500 miles full of those two qualities along the 4200 mile journey. Whoever chose the team was smokin' something, because talk about your ill-assorted multinational party of eleven weirdos. Joe Kane, the sole American, came along as the journalist to document the whole affair - and he'd never paddled a whitewater canoe before in his life. His chances of even living thru the trip, let along being one of the ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on This Is Buenos Aires |
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.In Patagonia City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Bruce Chatwin December 27, 1987 Starting a journey to one of the most mytical places on earth with an objective as vague and mytical as of Chatwin is a great begging for a book. The search for a ancestor place on history and the recount of his whereabouts on Patagonia with people from almost every place on earth is the book shortest description. The search for an identity, a purpose in life are the main focus of the book. The beatifull description of Patagonia and its people are extraordinary. >>See More Reviews & Details on In Patagonia |
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.Brazil City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Erwin Zeh 1990-12 Starting a journey to one of the most mytical places on earth with an objective as vague and mytical as of Chatwin is a great begging for a book. The search for a ancestor place on history and the recount of his whereabouts on Patagonia with people from almost every place on earth is the book shortest description. The search for an identity, a purpose in life are the main focus of the book. The beatifull description of Patagonia and its people are extraordinary. >>See More Reviews & Details on Brazil |
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.The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Moritz Thomsen February 01, 1990 I found out about Thomsen from a Paul Theroux reference and like many of Theroux's references to other writers and books, this turned out to be a winner. It's the story of an expatriate, perhaps running from his father, or looking for life's answer, joins the Peace Corps at the age of 48. After leaving the Corps, he remains in Ecuador and scrapes out a living on a farm. After being forced off the farm by a younger co-worker, Thomsen embarks on a journey that takes him to Brazil and the Amazon basin. The journey is described from the poor travler's point of view with many sad recollections of his life. >>See More Reviews & Details on The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers |
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.Dusk on the Campo: A Journey in Patagonia City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Sara Mansfield Taber 1991-07 I read this book while spending a month travelling through Chile and this book was the best reading I did on my trip. Patagonia is huge, empty, and stunningly beautiful. The people who live there are hardy and often very, very isolated. The author spends time getting to know the people, especially the women, who live a place with long, bitter cold winters, where their nearest neighbors can be 30 miles away down terrible, pitted roads, where trips to the grocery store may be once month at best, where they have many children not just to help with the ranch work but also to ease the intense loneliness on the estancias, and where the growing cities (even small ones) are slowly changing this way of life. She considers not just their daily existance and individual ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Dusk on the Campo: A Journey in Patagonia |
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.Two Wheels and a Taxi: A Slightly Daft Adventure in the Andes City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Virginia Urrutia 1987-11 A fascinating story of a 70 year young grandmother who biked through the Andes in Ecuador. She relates how she teemed up with a taxi driver come guide/body guard to help get her through the mapless wilderness. >>See More Reviews & Details on Two Wheels and a Taxi: A Slightly Daft Adventure in the Andes |
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.Geography of Latin America City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Kempton E. Webb 1987-11 A fascinating story of a 70 year young grandmother who biked through the Andes in Ecuador. She relates how she teemed up with a taxi driver come guide/body guard to help get her through the mapless wilderness. >>See More Reviews & Details on Geography of Latin America |
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.From the Hinterland of Ecuador to the Shores of Galapagos City Travel Guides > Books > South America by: Margaret Nesheim 1981-06 A fascinating story of a 70 year young grandmother who biked through the Andes in Ecuador. She relates how she teemed up with a taxi driver come guide/body guard to help get her through the mapless wilderness. >>See More Reviews & Details on From the Hinterland of Ecuador to the Shores of Galapagos |