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.In the Footsteps of the "Swallows and Amazons"
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by: Claire Kendall-Price

May 01, 1993

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.The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America Readers)
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from: Duke University Press

January 30, 2006
If you want to read about Peru, or to be an intelligent and informed visitor, this is an excellent introduction. It collects essays, folklore, poems, and newspaper articles to paint a word portrait of the country's history, culture and politics.

I used it to begin research for my next travel book!
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.The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
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by: Sean Harvey

November 28, 2002
This book is clearly written by someone who knows the country well, and who has travelled extensively. It is rather excellent, and full of essential facts. At times it contains too much information, making decisions about where to go and stay more difficult, but rather this than too little information.

Far better than the useless Lonely Planet
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.In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
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by: Bruce Chatwin

2003-03
His interest in Patagonia first awakened by a piece of sloth skin from that region that hung in his grandmother's house, Chatwin sets out on a mazy route from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego. As he makes for where the ancient sloth was discovered a century before, he glimpses into the lives of the settlers, gauchos and Indians who have spread themselves thinly across the pampas. The deep loneliness, isolation and fatalism implicit in the lives of those living at the end of the earth is conveyed starkly in Chatwin's laconic prose. Roaming between these outposts of humanity, he amuses himself in the pursuit of a series of riddles aside from the sloth mission - and as we are drawn into Chatwin's world of esoterica, where Butch Cassidy lived ... Read More:
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.Brazil Insight Guide (Insight Guides) (Insight Guides)
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by: Apa

August 30, 2007
His interest in Patagonia first awakened by a piece of sloth skin from that region that hung in his grandmother's house, Chatwin sets out on a mazy route from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego. As he makes for where the ancient sloth was discovered a century before, he glimpses into the lives of the settlers, gauchos and Indians who have spread themselves thinly across the pampas. The deep loneliness, isolation and fatalism implicit in the lives of those living at the end of the earth is conveyed starkly in Chatwin's laconic prose. Roaming between these outposts of humanity, he amuses himself in the pursuit of a series of riddles aside from the sloth mission - and as we are drawn into Chatwin's world of esoterica, where Butch Cassidy lived ... Read More:
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.Between Extremes: A Journey Beyond Imagination
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by: Brian Keenan, John McCarthy

September 01, 2000
If this was just a travel book, it would be pretty mediocre fare. However, it isn't. The 'extremes' of the title are not merely those of Chile, but the personalities of two very different men welded together by the trauma and ordeal of their shared past. Similarly, the journey is 'beyond imagination' not because of the almost unimaginable landscape of the country, but because they spent hours in captivity, imagining the Journey (and a rather more bizarre 'Yak farm').

How can two such different human beings become so enmeshed and sensitive to the nuances of each other's thoughts and behaviour? Well, read "An Evil Cradling" and "Some Other Rainbow", and *then* read this book. Suddenly, the journey acquires hidden treasures behind ... Read More:
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.The Rough Guide to Brazil (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
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by: Dilwyn Jenkins, David Cleary, Oliver Marshall

November 02, 2006
If this was just a travel book, it would be pretty mediocre fare. However, it isn't. The 'extremes' of the title are not merely those of Chile, but the personalities of two very different men welded together by the trauma and ordeal of their shared past. Similarly, the journey is 'beyond imagination' not because of the almost unimaginable landscape of the country, but because they spent hours in captivity, imagining the Journey (and a rather more bizarre 'Yak farm').

How can two such different human beings become so enmeshed and sensitive to the nuances of each other's thoughts and behaviour? Well, read "An Evil Cradling" and "Some Other Rainbow", and *then* read this book. Suddenly, the journey acquires hidden treasures behind ... Read More:
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.Falkland Islands (The Bradt Travel Guide)
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by: William Wagstaff

February 03, 2003
If this was just a travel book, it would be pretty mediocre fare. However, it isn't. The 'extremes' of the title are not merely those of Chile, but the personalities of two very different men welded together by the trauma and ordeal of their shared past. Similarly, the journey is 'beyond imagination' not because of the almost unimaginable landscape of the country, but because they spent hours in captivity, imagining the Journey (and a rather more bizarre 'Yak farm').

How can two such different human beings become so enmeshed and sensitive to the nuances of each other's thoughts and behaviour? Well, read "An Evil Cradling" and "Some Other Rainbow", and *then* read this book. Suddenly, the journey acquires hidden treasures behind ... Read More:
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.Brazil South Nelles Map (Nelles Maps) (Nelles Maps)
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by: Nelles

July 15, 2008
If this was just a travel book, it would be pretty mediocre fare. However, it isn't. The 'extremes' of the title are not merely those of Chile, but the personalities of two very different men welded together by the trauma and ordeal of their shared past. Similarly, the journey is 'beyond imagination' not because of the almost unimaginable landscape of the country, but because they spent hours in captivity, imagining the Journey (and a rather more bizarre 'Yak farm').

How can two such different human beings become so enmeshed and sensitive to the nuances of each other's thoughts and behaviour? Well, read "An Evil Cradling" and "Some Other Rainbow", and *then* read this book. Suddenly, the journey acquires hidden treasures behind ... Read More:
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.St Lucia Insight Compact Guide (Insight Compact Guides)
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by: Lesley Gordon

November 28, 2003
If this was just a travel book, it would be pretty mediocre fare. However, it isn't. The 'extremes' of the title are not merely those of Chile, but the personalities of two very different men welded together by the trauma and ordeal of their shared past. Similarly, the journey is 'beyond imagination' not because of the almost unimaginable landscape of the country, but because they spent hours in captivity, imagining the Journey (and a rather more bizarre 'Yak farm').

How can two such different human beings become so enmeshed and sensitive to the nuances of each other's thoughts and behaviour? Well, read "An Evil Cradling" and "Some Other Rainbow", and *then* read this book. Suddenly, the journey acquires hidden treasures behind ... Read More:
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