Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories.

"This visual guide to South America, from exploring Rio de Janeiro to visiting Iguazu Falls, Lake Titicaca, provides inspiration, in-depth cultural and historical information and a great selection of places to see during your trip"--

"Cuando en 1974 las dictaduras del Cono Sur instalaron la máquina de matar que asoló a la región, una trama conspirativa conectó al sangriento Chile de Pinochet con la temible Triple A de Argentina y operaciones secretas en Montevideo, sembrando muerte, dolor y destrucción. La verdadera historia de lo que se llamó "El Plan Cóndor", y que pasado tanto tiempo aún muestra zonas oscuras y de difícil comprensión, aparece ... descripta por Fernando...

Bitten by a rabid dog in colonial South America, twelve-year-old Sierva Maria is sent to a convent to endure torturous therapies and meets bookish Father Cayetano Delaura, with whom she shares a doomed affair.

"The French writer Albert Camus is best known for his novels and philosophical works, which are among the most influential of the twentieth century. But his journals, which he kept from 1935 to 1959, offer an intimate glimpse into his thinking at its most personal. Beautifully retranslated by Ryan Bloom and supplemented by an introduction by Alice Kaplan, Travels in the Americas presents the journals that Camus wrote during his eventful visits to...

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great...

This book will take readers to the continent of South America to discover some rock formations that held important dinosaur discoveries. Readers will learn about each dinosaur, from when it lived to what it ate.

Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.

A compilation of 38 outstanding species of mammals of the Orinoco-Amazon area plus others of the pacific slopes of Los Andes and the Galapagos islands. Possums, Armadillo, Sloth, anteaters, ten species of monkeys, seven species of rodents, including the biggest ones in the world like capybaras and agoutis, Ocelot, Puma, Jaguarundi and Jaguar, foxes, the Spectacled Bear, Kinkajou, Coati, Tayra, the Tapir, seals from Galapagos and more. A 37 minutes...