Search Results: South American History

Australia: Lonley Planet, 2004. 6. Paperback. used-good condition, some cover scuffing. 5x7.75. “Chile and Easter Island,” by Carolyn Hubbard, Brigitte Barta and Jeff Davis (2003) is a travel guidebook offering travel advice and background information about the history and culture of Chile, and the world’s most remote island — Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. From pristine Patagonian glaciers to the arid Atacama Desert, Chile offers breath-taking landscapes. Whether looking to scale an Andean peak, or relax on a Pacific beach, or find entertainments in the city of Santiago, this guide delivers export insights.

USA: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. Paperback. used-markings inside cover. 5.5x8.25. Description: Married at sixteen to a man twenty years her senior who spoke no English, she was taken to his ancestral home and estate where she found herself living in the most primitive of conditions, isolated and alone in Venezuela. St. Aubin de Teran ended up virtually running the plantation that belonged to her increasingly demented husband but enjoyed learning the mores and magic of a place that had remained practically unchanged for more than a century. Written in mesmerizing prose, this is the extraordinary story of a young woman surviving by her wits and fantasies.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. This book is only an introduction to Mayan culture, a subject too complicated to cover in 135 pages, but the color photographs give the reader an impression of the Mayan world. The photographs are gorgeous, some spanning two pages, and covering some of the ruins, figurines, pottery, murals and other artifacts. Book is in fine condition in a near fine dust jacket with slightest bumping to back upper edge.

NY: Penguin Group, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Shows a small crease at top and bottom of front cover and a crease along back cover. Light rubbing at edges. Former owner's 'impression' stamp on title page. * From the book, ""An excellent general history, clear in its narrative, interesting it its analysis and consistently intelligent in its judgments. Triumphantly accomplishes what it sets out to achieve. It will be a tremendous asset for teaching Latin American history and deserves as wide an audience as possible.""

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Publications, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Text block unmarked. Contains black and white photos by Gina Fontana throughout. Appears unread.

Hunter Publishing, 1997. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Paperback book. Illustrated in b/w. VG clean and sound condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Carefully read..

New York: Picador, 2015. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked wraps with a light crease near lower edge and light wear around extremities; glued binding tight, solid square; reddish mark on fore-edge of terxt block; pages quite clean, no marks of any kind, no creases. Former owner name in pencil on first page. An account of the catastrophe when the San Jose Mine outside of Copiapo, Chili, collapsed in August 2010. Thirty-three miners were trapped beneath thousands of feet of rock for 69 days. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar interviewed the miners and here tells their story of what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain with no idea what would happen, consumed by hunger and surrounded by danger. "The 33" captures the profound ways in which the lives of everyone involved in this disaster were changed forever. 309 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2015, Picador, New York.

Unwin Bros, 1976. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1786. Thick card covers. original two tone illustrations & maps. VG clean and sound condition. Description of the countries of the world published in two volumes under the title of 'A New System of Geography,' London 1785-6. The section reproduced is Book 4 pages 625-782.

U.S.A: Oxford University Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Translated from the Spanish by John H. R. Polt. Introduction and Chronology by Brian Loveman. Bright and clean wrappers, with just a whisper of wear to the top edge, else Fine. Sound and square binding. Pages edges and pages clean, no markings, no creases. The wildly adventurous Perez Rosales traces his life from his childhood in a well-to-do Santiago family toward the end of Chile's colonial period, up to the 1860s. His many experiences and adventures included his seeing in Argentina, at the age of eleven, the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera; journeying around Cape Horn to Paris where he witnessed the July revolution of the 1830s; trying his hand at practicing medicine; cattle smuggling; and on and on. He ended up with membership in the Chilean Senate. 396 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2003, Oxford University Press, USA

World Resources Institute, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Excellent clean condition. Carefu;lly read. Np tears or loss. No annotations or highlighting..

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First Printing: June1995. Complete number line with number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Black boards with deep purple spine cloth containing gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight with only markings noted are two or three small unobtrusive underlining / paragraph brackets on about the first ten or so pages. Does not interfere with readability. Deep purple end papers. Colorful glossy dust jacket in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear. Not price clipped. Concludes with a Selected Bibliography and a comprehensive Index. 540 pages. * From the front flap, ' . . . one of the most colorful and paradoxical places in the world . . . definitive portrait of Brazil, its history, people, and culture. . . '

NY: Harper San Francisco, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bruce, Paddy. 3rd Printing Stated First Edition. third printing per number line. Hard cover in very good condition with purple boards, white spine lettering and a ""heart on fire"" on front board. A small volume - square 6 1/2"" x 6 1/2"". Interior text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Orange endpapers wtih scattered small white milagros. Dust jacket in likewise fine condtion; not price clipped. Overall presents as new and unread. * From the book, ""Milagros--Spanish for miracles--come in an endless variety of shapes and sizes. Since before recorded history, these offerings to the gods have been an essential part of Latin American culture. More than just symbolic gifts, milagros are thought to be magical: if you believe and make your desire known with good faith, the milagro may work its wondrous power. This book is an inspiring introduction to the beauty and divine… Read More

London, UK: Evans Brothers Limited, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover and Jacket in Near Fine Condition. 36 illustrative plates, 6 maps. An exploration of the campaigns which freed South America from the centuries long domination of Spain and Portugal, focusing on the unofficial intervention of thousands of English, Scots, and Irish who participated either from idealistic or mercenary motives--the New Conquistadors of this book. This is priimarily an account of the British adventurers and not the wars in general. Includes a Comparative Chronology of Europe, the US, Chile, Peru & Bolivia, and Brazil; Further reading section and Index. The first half of the book has yellow highlighting of text, otherwise very clean, tight and solid. Burgundy cloth gilt titled, very clean and unmarked, no edgewear. Jacket is rubbed, else Fine. 175 pages. 1980, Evans Brothers Limited, London, UK

London: Virago Press. 1998. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 212 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Wraps very good: crisp & shiny, spine uncreased, appears unread. 522 numbered pages. Begins with a Chronology of Events, maps of the Inca Empire c. 1530 and the Spanish Empire in the New World c. 1600. Contains some b&w illustrations and a section of 4 leaves/8 pages of glossy b&w photos & illustrations. Concludes with Acknowledgments, Notes to the Chapter, Bibliography, and an extensive Index.

London: Hutchinson of London. 1971. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and illustrations. Maps to endpapers. 336 pages. From Magellan to the current day. - a tale of some of the worst journeys in the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: The Folio Society. 1972. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. No Slipcase. Bound in quarter blue leather, wood-veneer boards with a design in black by John Westwood. Leather spine is rubbed at edges. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Endpaper maps. Translated by Alexis Brown. Introduction by Jack Beeching. 194 pages. The author 'of nexessity, was present at all these acts of plunder'. Originally published in 1678 in Amsterdam. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

London: The Folio Society. 1977. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in a Good Slipcase. Leather spine with gilt decoration and titles. Slipcase worn at rear with some cracking to paper. Translated from the Spanish by William C. Atkinson. Illustrated with black & white vinyl-cuts by John Lawrence. Maps to endpapers. 155 pages. Spanish Bascunan spent 6 months in captivity in Arauco, Chile in 1629. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey. 1971. Octavo Size [approx 16x23cm]. Very Good condition in Good+ Dustjacket. DJ has some light edgewear and is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 291 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

NY: Praeger, 1969. (1st American edition). NEAR FINE/ Good dj. Book, as new including large map. Dust jacket is crisp and clean but has light rubbing and scratches and light wear and chipping to top and bottom edges." 4 sections: The Ancestral Roots; The Young Republic (1821-95); The Modern Era (1896-1969); Problems and Prospects. The author served as First Secretary of the British Embassy (1948-1951) and as British Ambassador (1963-1967). 288 indexed pages, including 30 black and white photo illustrations including Bibliography.