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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I WAS NEVER ALONE Nidia Diaz - A Prison Diary from El Salvador
I Was Never Alone is author and guerilla commander Nidia Diaz's account of her 190 day imprisonment in El Salvador. This book is very hard to find.

Price: AUD $14.00

IN THE SIERRA MADRE by Jeff Biggers
A rare travel book in good, used condition: pages and cover and nice and clean, ageing lightly; light reading wear to corners. A nice book. 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

IN TROUBLE AGAIN by Redmond O'Hanlon
A scarce South America travelogue by a very popular and funny travel writer. The book is in crappy condition with lots of reading wear and age but it is perfectly readable and cheap. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $7.00

INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN YUCATAN Volume Two by John L Stephens
A classic book of exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidence of Maya civilization.

Price: AUD $8.00

IT'S EVERY MONKEY FOR THEMSELVES Vanessa Woods - A True Story of Sex, Love and Lies in the Jungle
An Australian author studies capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica, this travel book looks like a hoot.

Price: AUD $8.00

KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT Tobias Schneebaum - 1955 Search For Cannibals in Peru
In 1955, armed with a penknife and the instructions 'Keep the river on your right, ' the Brooklyn-born painter Tobias Schneebaum set off into the trackless jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals.

Price: AUD $12.00

KOTA MAMA John Blashford-Snell and Richard Snailham - From the Andes to the Atlantic - an Amazing Journey of Adventure and Discovery
Koto Mama traces the journey of modern day explorers John Blashford-Snell and Richard Snailham as they built a fleet of reed boats in the fashion of pre-Inca people in South America.

Price: AUD $9.00

LETTERS FROM BONAIRE Marion West (Bonaire Island - Caribbean)
LETTERS FROM BONAIRE: Marion West's account of several months on a small Caribbean island.

Price: AUD $8.00

LIGHT IN THE JUNGLE Leo B. Halliwell (Amazon River Shipping \ Brazil)
Published in 1959. The author and his wife sailed up and down the Amazon carrying medical supplies. The authors were Seventh Day Adventist missionaries however flicking through the book it focuses on their adventures rather than religion, there is little if any 'God bothering'.

Price: AUD $5.00

LIZZIE - A VICTORIAN LADY'S AMAZON ADVENTURE Compiled by Tony Morrison, Ann Brown & Anne Rose
This remarkable book is based on the recently discovered letters that Lizzie Hessel wrote to her family on her 4,000 mile journey to Bolivia, spanning 1896 to her death in 1899.

Price: AUD $12.00


LONELY PLANET READ THIS FIRST: CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA by Conner Gorry
A primer on the basics for new travellers by Lonely Planet.

Price: AUD $8.00

LONELY PLANET WORLD FOOD CARIBBEAN
A handy pocket sized munchie guide, these Lonely Planet Food Guides are highly recommended to travelling foodies.

Price: AUD $15.00

LONELY PLANET WORLD FOOD MEXICO Bruce Geddes - For People Who Live to Eat, Drink & Travel
LONELY PLANET WORLD FOOD MEXICO - a scarce guide for eating and drinking your way through Mexico.

Price: AUD $9.99

LONESOME GEORGE Henry Nicholls - The Life and Loves of the World's Most Famous Tortoise (Galapagos Islands \ South America)
LONESOME GEORGE: the story of a a 5 foot long, 200 pound tortoise, between 60 and 200 years old. In 1971 he was discovered on the remote Galapagos island of Pinta.

Price: AUD $10.00

LOOKING FOR LA BOMBA The Cuban Adventures of a Musical Oaf by Richard Neill
A scarce cuba travel memoir. Book is in good condition with light reading wear and age. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $6.00

LOST ON EARTH Steve Crombie - One Man's Incredible 90,000 km Journey from Australia to the Arctic Circle (South \ Central America)
LOST ON EARTH: author Steve Crombie's account of riding from Australia to the Arctic Circle by motorbike, a 1999 Honda NX650.

Price: AUD $30.00

MAYAN DREAM WALK Richard Luxton with Pablo Balam
A scarce book. Mayan Dream Walk is the story of Mayan hieroglyphic writing remembered and interpreted by a contemporary Mayan Indian, don Pablo Balam, working with a young Anglo-Peruvian writer, Richard Luxton.

Price: AUD $10.00

MEXICAN SPANISH A Rough Guide Phrasebook - 1996 Edition
A pocket-sized language guide book for anybody wanting to get the most of out Mexico.

Price: AUD $7.00

MEXICO CITY - Fodor's Pocket 2nd Edition
A pocket sized city guide from 2001, a bit out of date but cheap and still a handy planning tool.

Price: AUD $5.00