Central & South America

Central & South America
Used travel books including Mexico, South America, Central America and Caribbean including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint, Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands. Give or take a few.

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CARIBBEAN PORTS OF CALL Kay Showker - A Guide for Today's Cruise Passengers
Published in 2002, this book is getting a bit long in the tooth but is cheap, scarce and handy for trip research. Covers Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St Maarten/St Martin, Eastern Caribbean, Southern Caribbean, South America's Caribbean.

Price: AUD $8.00

CHASING BOHEMIA A year of living recklessly in Rio de Janeiro by Carmen Michael
A rare Brazil travelogue, it looks like a cracker of a read.

Price: AUD $12.00


CHILE Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
A scarce South America travelogue. This is a used travel book in very good condition: nice and clean with only light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Price: AUD $10.00

CHOLAS IN BOWLERS Journey to Bolivia by Jane Mundy ~ SIGNED BOOK!
A very scarce Bolivia travelogue, signed by the author too! This is a used travel book in very good condition with light reading wear. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Price: AUD $12.00

COCAINE TRAIN Stephen Smith - Tracing My Bloodline Through Columbia
In the summer of 1998, journalist Stephen Smith finds himself boarding the Cocaine Train out of Cali, home of Columbia's infamous drugs cartel. The Cocaine Train is one of the last remnants of a once great railway system, and Smith is riding in it in search of a grandfather he barely knew: Fred Leslie Frost, pioneering railwayman.

Price: AUD $9.00


CULUA My Samantha Wood - My Other Life in Mexico
A popular travel memoir Mexican travel memoir by an Australian writer.

Price: AUD $8.00

DEATH DREAMS & DANCING IN NICARAGUA by Penny O'Donnell
A very scarce book on Nicaragua by ABC journalist Penny O'Donnell.

Price: AUD $12.00

DEATH WITHOUT MISERY Nancy Scheper-Hughes - The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Death Without Mercy is a scarce ethnological account of women in a Brazilian favela (shantytown\slum).

Price: AUD $14.00

DO TRAVEL WRITERS GO TO HELL? Thomas Kohnstamm (Brazil)
DO TRAVEL WRITERS GO TO HELL? Thomas Kohnstamm's swashbuckling tale of high adventure, questionable ethics and professional hedonism. The author gets a gig as a travel writer covering Brazil.

Price: AUD $8.00

EIGHT MEN AND A DUCK Nick Thorpe - An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island (Pacific Islands South America Chile Poynesia)
EIGHT MEN AND A DUCK: Nick Thorpe joints a bizarre venture to travel from Chile to Easter Island on a reed boat.

Price: AUD $8.00

ENDURING CUBA by Zoe Bran (Caribbean)
A scarce Cuba travel memoir.

Price: AUD $10.00

ENRIQUE'S JOURNEY The story of a boy's dangerous odyssey to reunite with his mother by Sonia Nazario
This looks like and amazing read: the true story of a Honduran kid who set off to find his mother in the USA. Book is in good, read conditon: pages are nice and clean, some wear to cover edges and corners. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $9.00

FROM YUKON TO YUCATAN A journey of discovery in the footsteps of America's first travellers by I Allan Sealy
An interesting and hard-to find travel book following the trails of American Indians. This is a used paperback book in good, read, aging condition: pages are clean and tanning with age, cover shows wear and age, has been read a few times, looks a bit worn but a good reading copy. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $9.00

HAVANA DREAMS A story of a Cuban family by Wendy Gimbel (Cuba - Hardcover)
A scarce Cuban biography, an account of the lives of four generations of Cuban women.

Price: AUD $10.00

HAVANA RED A scorching novel from the star of Cuban fiction by Leonardo Padura
A hard to find Cuban novel. This is a used book in good condition, clean with light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $6.00

HEART OF THE AMAZON The Harrowing Life-and-Death Story of Survival in the South American Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg (signed)
A scarce book, signed by the author. This true story looks like an amazing read. Four backpacker's get lost in the Amazon jungle, only two come back.

Price: AUD $10.00

HOUSE OF THE TIGER KING A Quest for a Lost Inca City by Tahir Shah
A great travelogue that is getting harder to find. Book is in good condition with light reading wear and age. Book is price marked on bottom edge with texta. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $8.00

I RIGOBERTA MENCHU An Indian Woman in Guatemala
The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Price: AUD $12.00