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London: American Chamber of Commerce in London,. 1930. Hard Cover. 590 pages, illustrations, tables, cloth. . more information

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New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1967. Hard Cover. 208 pages, pictorial boards, dj, very good. Book club edition. From the dj: 'This job will concern your specialty and national defense,' the government official said, 'The job will take you overseas and your friendship with a certain South American skier is an important detail. The assignment will involve a degree of personal hazard. Your cover is that the Forest Service has loaned you to a private company to do an avalanche job in South America.' In this abrupt and mysterious manner began a strange adventure for Brad Davis, Forest Service avalanche control specialist, taking him from the high peaks of the Rockies to an even loftier and Wilder mountain range, the Andes of South America. Together with Ramon Calderon, Latin American Olympic champion, Brad set out on his assignment, during the course of which the two friends become involved in a riot, made an escape over a hundred and fifty jolting miles of mountain road, sat out a blizzard while engaged in high-altitude ski mountaineering, were shot at, and performed a rescue - all of which was tied in with the maneuvering of great powers operating behind a veil of secrecy to gain control of a highly valuable mine. . more information

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Washington,: Inter-American Development Bank / Brookings Institution Press. 1998. Soft Cover. 0815709218 . 267 pages, diagrams, charts, wrappers, very good. From the foreword: The essays in this book propose new ways of reducing inequality, not by growth-inhibiting transfers and regulations, but by enhancing efficiency--eliminating consumption subsidies for the wealthy, increasing the productivity of the poor, and shifting to a more labor-and-skill-demanding growth path. The chapters draw on discussions at a conference sponsored by the IDB and the MacArthur Foundation, titled "Inequality-Reducing Growth in Latin America" held in Washington, D.C. in January 1997. . more information

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Wilmington, DE,: SR Books. Very Good. 1992. Soft Cover. 0842024298 . XX,247 pages, wrappers, very good. From the publisher: "Present in Peru from the arrival of the conquistadors in the 16th century, slavery remained legal at the time the nation declared its independence in 1821. Even though the new leaders passed antislavery legislation during the 1820s, the institution survived for an addition three decades and was not abolished until a presidential decree outlawed forced labor in 1855. In Slavery and Abolition in Early Republican Peru, Professor Blanchard discusses the social and economic factors that supported slavery in the years after independence. He focuses on the economics of Peruvian slavery, the life of the slave population and the successes and failures of the abolitionist movement. Of special interest is his discussion of the crucial role the slaves themselves played in their own liberation: through escaping, buying their own freedom, or taking complaints to the courts, they made clear to Peru's slaveholders that his institution could no longer be tolerated." . more information

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New York: Colonial Press. Very Good. 1951. Hard Cover. Compiled by Vicente Lecuna, edited by Harold A. Bierck, Jr.. Translation by Lewis Bertrand. . more information

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American Geographical Society of New York. Good. 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. 336 pages, many plates and folding maps, diagrams, cloth, some shelf wear otherwise very good. 7 by 10 inches. 1st edition. From the Preface: "The geographic work of the Yale Peruvian expedition of 1911 was essentially a reconnaissance of the Peruvian Andes along the 73d meridian. The route led from the tropical plains of the lower Urubamba southward over lofty snow-covered passes to the desert coast at Camana. The strong climatic and topographic contrasts and the varied human life which the region contains are of geographic interest chiefly because they present so many and such clear cases of environmental control within short distances." . more information

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Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice Hall Press. 1990. Soft Cover. 013526782X . 372 pages, illustrations, maps, wraps, very good. . more information

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Princeton,: Princeton University Press,. Very Good. 1979. Soft Cover. 0691021945 . 456 pages, wrappers, back-strip sun-faded otherwise very good. Contributors: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, David Collier, Julio Cotler, Albert O. Hirschman, Robert R. Kaufman, James R. Kurth, Guillermo O'Donnell, Jose Serra. From the back cover: While one of the most important attempts to explain the rise of authoritarian regimes and their relationship to problems of economic development has been the bureaucratic-authoritarian mode,' there has been growing dissatisfaction with various elements of this model. In light of this dissatisfaction, a group of leading economists, political scientists, and sociologists was brought together to assess the adequacy of the model and suggest directions for its reformulation. This volume is the product of their discussions over a period of three years and represents an important advance in the critique and refinement of ideas about political development. . more information

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Washington Publishing Co.. 1936. Hard Cover. 410 pages, 16 plates, pictorial cloth, 2nd edition, very good. Not exactly an unbiased biography. . more information

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Harrisburg, Pa.,: Stackpole Sons. Very Good. 1945. Hard Cover. With the assistance of Justine Whitfield Diffie. Xviii,812 pages, plates, illustrations, maps, cloth, very good. Second printing. From the preface: "A book is never the product of one person alone. Many people are needed to furnish ideas from which a book springs, and the author is glad to acknowledge the help which so many have cheerfully given to the preparation of this book. First are my own students at the College of the City of New York. From their prodding and questions came the inspiration to attempt a book that would give a partial answer to the many questions that arise about Latin America." . more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster,. 1974. Hard Cover. 477 pages, 8 plates, cloth, very good. An account of Bormann's flight to Argentina and nazi movements in South America after WWII. . more information

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New York: Macmillan Co. ,. Very Good. 1937. Hard Cover. [8],220 pages, 8 plates, 1 folding map, map endpapers, cloth, very good. From the Wikipedia website: "Victor Wolfgang von Hagen (1908- ) was a US-American explorer, archaeological historian, anthropologist and travel writer who travelled the South Americas with his wife Christine. Mainly between 1940 and 1965 he published a large number of widely acclaimed books about the ancient people of the Inca, Maya and Aztecs. In the early 1950s, he went for a two year exploration of Peru's ancient Inca roads and found the only surviving suspension bridge of this trail." . more information

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Chicago: Charles H. Sergel and Company. Good+. 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. A history of Chile. Latin-American Republics. 471 pages, 10 plates, 2 folding maps, cloth, rebound ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. "Constitution of the republic of Chile": p. 425-455. From the preface: "Two periods of Chilean history have already been well presented to the outside world: the period fo the revolutionand that of the late war between Chile and the Peruvian-Bolivian alliance. Respeting the period between the years 1829 and 1879 there is no connected account in English. . . I have devoted considerablespace to the late civil war in Chile and have cut somewhat short previous political wars, which, in point of the numbers killed, were quite as bloody as this last. " ; Ex-Library; 471 pages . more information

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Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. 1974. Soft Cover. 0873381556 . 221 pages, maps, wrappers, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the back cover: An introduction to the politics of Latin America that puts this complex matter in clear perspective for the reader north of the border. Harris and Alba base their approach on the belief that the countries of Latin America, from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego, have more in common than they have differences and can be best understood in regional rather than purely national terms. They begin, therefore, with a geographical overview and a recounting of the shared history of colonialism, independence struggles, economic domination, and the present sociological, cultural, and economic climate of the continent. . more information

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New York: American Geographical Society,. Very Good. 1934. Hard Cover. Xiv, [4], 467 pages, facsimiles, cloth, former owners name and address stamped on front blank endpaper otherwise very good. "As published with an introduction by José Toribio Medina; translated from the Spanish by Bertram T. Lee; edited by H. C. Heaton. " American Geographical Society. Special publication no. 17. Contents: Pt. I. Introduction by Medina. --Pt. II. Carvajal's account. --Pt. III. Documents. --Appendix: Selections from Oviedo's "Historia de las Indias" bearing on Orellana's two expeditions. ; 467 pages . more information

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Chappaqua, NY: Christian Herald Books. 1981. Hard Cover. 0915684853 . 236 pages, 8 plates, cloth, dj, very good. From the dj: This book demonstrates Christian commitment on four levels: It tells you about the backgrounds of five evangelical missionaries. And what brought them to deny themselves, leave their homes and families, and go among 'the most hostile savages known' - the Auca Indians of Ecuador. When the five men are cruelly massacred, it tells how the wife of one and the sister of another accept the challenge and carry on the work. What it takes to venture among the Aucas again, knowing little of their language and with the threat of their sharp spears ever present. . . Finally you will read how the Auca massacre and its aftermath continue to influence the church throughout the world to renewed commitment. . more information

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London: Michael Joseph. 1978. Hard Cover. 0718117549 . 223 pages, 16 color plates, well illustrated, map, plans, cloth, dj, very good. 7-1/2 by 10 inches. From the dj, 'The lure of the sacred gold of the American Indians in Central and Southern America gripped the imagination of the early sixteenth-century European explorers. . . This book describes the nature of the conquistadors, and tells from contemporary sources the appalling cruelty of these explorers, who preyed on the Indian tribes but who themselves suffered indescribable hardships. Once the El Dorado legend had evolved, it became an obsession of successive adventurers. There was the handsome Gonzalo Pizarro, betrayed by Orellana in the first European descent of the Amazon river. The paranoid murderer and rebel Lope de Aguirre, the aged Antondio de Berrio and Sir Walter Raleigh, the epitome of Elizabethan courtier, who tried to found a British empire in Guiana. The Gold Museum of Bogota with nearly 25,000 objects provides the splendid backdrop to this story. The best of these objects, photographed in colour by Mario Carrieri, are here reproduced for the first time.' . more information

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London: Gerald Duckworth & Co.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. Hard Cover. 314 pages, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. First published in 1885 under title: The purple land that England lost. From the publisher: First published in 1885, this is W.H. Hudson's first book, the fruit of his own early experiences in South America, and no less fine a book than the more celebrated companion novel Green Mansions. . more information

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New York: Basic Books. Very Good. 1944. Hard Cover. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer ; foreword by John Galsworthy. 303 pages, 10 color plates, decorated boards, very good. From the foreword: "I take up pen for this foreword with the fear of one who knows that he cannot do justice to his subject, and the trembling of one who would not, for a good deal, set down words unpleasing to the eye of him wrote 'Green Mansions', 'The Purple Land,' and all those other books which have meant so much to me. For of all living authors - now that Tolstoi has gone - I could least dispense with W.H. Hudson." From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: William Henry Hudson, 1841-1922, English author and naturalist, b. Buenos Aires of American parents. He spent his childhood on the pampas but developed a heart condition and finally emigrated to England in 1870. Hudson was a sensitive observer of nature, particularly of birds. In his books he describes plants and animals in a highly personal manner with great force and beauty. His best-known work, Green Mansions (1904), is a romance set in a South American jungle. Included among his other works are The Purple Land (1885), The Naturalist in La Plata (1892), A Shepherd's Life (1910), Far Away and Long Ago (1918), and A Hind in Richmond Park (1922). . more information

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New York: Harper & Row,. 1964. Hard Cover. 244 pages, well illustrated (many in color), map, cloth, dust jacket, 1st edition, very good. 9 inches by 11-1/2 inches. The Indians of the Peruvian mountains. . more information

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New York: Vanguard Press. 1974. Hard Cover. 0814907563 . 226 pages, 4 plates, cloth, dust jacket, very good. British Ambassador to Uruguay Sir Jackson was kidnapped and held hostage for 244 days. . more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf,. 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0679411917 . 273 pages, 4 color plates, maps, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. From the dj, 'Savages is a firsthand account, by turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors' battle to preserve their way of life. Joe Kane, author of Running the Amazon, returns to the river to search for the Huaorani, a nation of 1,300 nomadic Indians so isolated they speak a language unrelated to any other on earth, so fierce that for milennia they have defended a territory the size of Massachusetts against all comers. But theirs is a territory rich in oil, and now, suddenly, the Huaorani find themselves besieged by a wave of aggressors the likes of which they have never seen: hell-bent oil companies, dogged missionaries, unscrupulous indigenous bureaucrats, and starry-eyed environmentalists - all claiming to represent the Huaorani's best interests. Kane's story of how the Huaorani attempt to vault from Stone Age to Petroleum Age on their own terms, to outwit and outfight the forces of change, exposes one of the best-hidden consequences of our relentless drive to 'develop' the world. And just as important, it brings us face-to-face with the spirit of the jaguar - the spirit that inspires the Huaorani to call themselves 'the bravest people in the Amazon.'' . more information

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New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover. 314 pages, 16 plates, 1 folding map, cloth, very good. . more information

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Buenos Aires,: (N. P. , Circa 1956). Hard Cover. 131 pages, map in color, very well illustrated, cloth, 8-1/2 by 11 inches, back-strip sun-faded otherwise very good. Many photographs of petroleum operations. . more information

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Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mill Press. 1999. Hard Cover. 1563977435 . 48 pages, well illustrated in color, maps, cloth, dust jacket, oblong, 10 by inches. Very good. . more information

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New York: William Morrow & Co.. 1963. Hard Cover. 332 pages, 2 maps, cloth, dj, very good. . more information

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Edicoes Siciliano. 1987. Hard Cover. 8526701541 . 200 pages, well illustrated in color, maps, cloth, dj, very good. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. An overall look at the country, its land, people and customs. Excellent photography and maps. . more information

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Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. 1986. Soft Cover. 0881336742 . 280 pages, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the back cover: On May 31, 1970, a massive earthquake struck Peru. Hardest hit by the catastrophe, which is still considered the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of the Western hemisphere, was the small city of Yungay. It was buried under an avalanche as high as a ten-story building. Of a population of 4,500, only three to five hundred survived. This bok is about the destruction of Yungay and the survivors' efforts to rebuild their lives in a refugee camp not far from their original homes. It is both a story and a study of human survival. The story conveys a sense of what life was like for those who worked to reconstruct their community; the study documents and analyzes the sociocultural processes that people use to adapt to overwhelming forces of destruction and change. . more information

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Washington: Pan American Union. Good. 1911. Hardcover. 1092 pages, many plates and illustrations, maps, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. BR4480E; Ex-Library; 1092 pages . more information

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Washington, DC,: Brookings Institution,. 1991. Soft Cover. 081576913X . 336 pages, tables, wrappers, very good. From the publisher: For the past fifteen years Peru has suffered a profound and lasting economic crisis that threatens the stability of the country's fragile democratic system. Economic mismanagement has led to plummeting per capita income, accelerating inflation - an annualized rate of nearly 3,000 percent by 1989 - and widespread social upheaval. This study by experts in the United States and Latin America offers a coherent proposal for economic stabilization and structural adjustment to restore economic growth - but growth with equity - to this distressed country. . more information

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Rio de Janeiro,: Banco Do Brasil. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Hard Cover. 174 pages, well illustrated (many in color, some folding), cloth, dj, very good. 9 by 11-1/2 inches. From the preface by Alcir Augustinho Calliari, President, Banco do Brasil: Rio de Janeiro -Retratos Da Cidade e um apanhado significativo de fotografias feitas por artistas que, desde 1840 ate nossos dias, retrataram com suas cameras as paisagens, a arquitetura, as transformacoes urbanas, os movimentos socias e, principalmente, os tipos humanos que fizeram e fazem sua hisotira." Text in Portuguese. . more information

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New York: Stein and Day,. 1967. Hard Cover. 256 pages, 5 illustrations & maps, cloth. The first account in English of the 17th century expedition under Pedro de Valdivia. . more information

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Berkeley,: University of California Press. Very Good. 1969. Soft Cover. Translated from the Portuguese by Suzette Macedo. [8],530 pages, wrappers, very good. Translation of Formação do Brasil contemporâneo. From the Hispanic American Historical Review: "The translation of such a distinguished economic historian as Caio Prado merits the gratitude of all scholars interested in Latin America. This book, rich in facts and in interpretation, deserves a prominent place on the library shelf of all Latin Americanists." . more information

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London: Oxford University Press,. Good. 1967. Soft Cover. 0195007840 . Xviii, 446 pages, map, wrappers, covers frayed but text is very good. This book follows three decades of democratic experimentation--and the rise and fall of constitutional government--in Brazil. Beginning with Getulio Vargas' fifteen-year rule and ending with the coup d'etat that ousted President Joao Goulart from office in 1964, Skidmore sets political events in the context of social and economic factors to show how the problems posed by economic expansion, an unfavorable trade balance, inequitable land distribution, and shifting political power have profoundly affected Brazil's growth and stability. . more information

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Natal. 1981. Soft Cover. 426 pages, very well illustrated, pictorial wrappers, very good. 'A Memoria de Rodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade, A Quem o Brasil deve Tantos e Assinalados Servicos.' . more information

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New York: Crown Publishers. Good. 1949. Hard Cover. 239 pages, 32 plates, map endpapers, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the preface: Peru, of all the South Americas, most appeals to the imagination. No other country is so outstanding for its ancient cultures, architecture, arts, or scenery. . . I knew that geographically the country had three natural north-south divisions - Costa (Coast), Sierra (the Andes), Montana an old Spanish term for jungle, which the Peruvians still use. But I never expected to find the human element so different in each region that they form there wholly different, exciting worlds. . more information

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Austin,: University of Texas Press. Very Good. 2000. Soft Cover. 0292781695 . xii,320 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the publisher: "With a common heritage as former colonies of Europe, why did the United States so outstrip Latin America in terms of economic development in the nineteenth century? In this innovative study, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North Americans succeeded because of better attitudes toward work-the Protestant work ethic-and argues instead that they prospered because of differences in attitudes towards workers that evolved in the colonial era. Townsend builds her study around workers' lives in two very similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s. Through the eyes of the young Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, Maryland, and an Indian woman named Ana Yagual in Guayaquil, Ecuador, she shows how differing attitudes towards race and class in North and South America affected local ways of doing business. This empirical research significantly clarifies the relationship between economic culture and racial identity and its long-term effects." . more information

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New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. 006014369X . Xx,364 pages, well illustrated, maps, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. 'Pino Turolla brings high adventure to archaeology in the wilds of the Andes, tracking down a lost megalithic civilization whose suspected existence will cause a rewriting of South America's prehistory.' - Peter Tompkins. . more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. 288 pages, 8 plates, map, cloth, dj, very good. First edition. From the dj: Dayuma fled from the Auca forest of terror [Ecuador] to escape death at the hands of her father's killer. Rachel Saint, sister of one of the five missionaries martyred by Dayuma's tribe, went to the forest to bring the Gospel of Peace. She met Dayuma on the borders of that savage land. This is their story - a story of incredible cruelty and terror, of heroic courage and conviction, and finally, of a daring return to the world's most murderous tribe. . more information

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New York: New York University Press,. 1991. Hard Cover. 0814792359 . 279 pages, tables, cloth, dj, very good. . more information

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