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.

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.

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

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

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.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, [1984]. Paperback. Very Good-. 8vo. x, [4], 242 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white maps and illustrations. Very good-, previous owner's blind stamp to lower corner of half title, internally clean, age-toning to wrappers, wear to extremities.

Blackwell Pub. Very Good+. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 0631158588 . Pages clean and unmarked. Cover has light scuffing, light corner wear and a little fading to spine. Main topics: Toward a Solution to the Central American Crisis; Five Countries, Five Realities; An Alternative to U. S. Policy. (230os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages .

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.

London: Latin America Bureau, 1993. Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo. [4], 228 p. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Includes bibliography and index, Very Good+, owner's name in ink to title page, otherwise clean, copy with minor scuffing to wrapper.

Albany: State university of New York Press, 1970. Paperback. Very Good-. 8vo. [6], 280 pp. Bound in light brown wrappers printed in dark brown. Translated and with and introduction by Carlos A. Astiz with Mary F. McCarthy. Very Good-, previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper, internally clean with minor wear and few stains to wrappers.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. xvi, 218 pp. Bound in black boards in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white maps and illustrations. Near Fine, age-toning to pages otherwise clean and crisp in Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing to extremities.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1967]. Abridged ed. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Small 8vo. xviii, 224 p. Bound in full green cloth in blue and white dust jacket. Abridged edition. VG+, tight, clean copy in VG+ dust jacket with minor age-toning and wear.

Austin: University of Texas Press, [1990]. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good-. 8vo. xiv, [2], 352 pp. Bound in red wrappers printed in black and white. Illustrated with tables and charts, Includes index. Very Good-, upper corner of two pages creased, otherwise internally clean, fading to wrappers, creasing to lower corner of front cover, rubbing and wear to extremities, crease to spine.

Wilmington, DE: SR Books, [2003]. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo. xxvi, 300, [2] pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with black and white map, charts and table. Includes glossary and index. Very Good+, crease to lower corner of front cover, otherwise clean, bright copy.