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1	Relic more books like this by Douglas J Preston add to wishlist The New York Museum of Natural History is the scene of gruesome murders and a lost anthropological expedition may hold the secret. see all copies from £4.55! new only from £5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Modern Latin America more books like this by Professor Thomas E Skidmore, Peter H Smith add to wishlist This interpretive history of Latin America has been brought up to date in all areas, including the ongoing war against international drug trafficking, the difficulties and promises of NAFTA, the increasing trend toward democratic and pluralist politics, and the large-scale immigration of Latin Americans into the United States. As in earlier ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
3	Dark Possession more books like this by Christine Feehan add to wishlist Vampire Manolito De La Cruz has caught the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney, an all-too-human female who'd never surrender herself to an aggressive and brutish Carpathian male. But MaryAnn may not have a choice. This edition includes bonus scenes. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £6.19! \| first editions
4	Excavation more books like this by James Rollins add to wishlist The discovery of a corpse five centuries dead in the South American jungle portends the a wonderful and terrifying secret waiting to be unleashed upon humankind. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.78! \| first editions
5	Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden more books like this by Johan Reinhard add to wishlist On September 8 1995, while climbing a snow c overed volcano in Peru, Reinhard and his Peruvian assistant came across a frozen mummy, incredibly preserved from the ti me of the Inca Empire. Now he reveals the story behind the I nca Ice Maiden. ' see all copies from £6.92! new only from £13.61! \| signed copies
6	Bel Canto more books like this by Ann Patchett add to wishlist An opera singer becomes a long-term hostage in a South American country bedeviled by terrorists. Removed from the outside world, hostages and captors gradually forge a life together that, surprisingly, contains its own satisfactions. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Conquest of New Spain more books like this by Bernal Diaz, Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, John M Cohen (Introduction by) add to wishlist Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish ... see all copies from £4.12! new only from £9.29! \| first editions
8	The Mangrove Coast more books like this by Randy Wayne White add to wishlist Marine biologist Doc Ford answers the call to help a friend's daughter when her mother disappears in Baja. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	America B.C. : ancient settlers in the New World more books like this by Barry Fell add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £53.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Grandfather more books like this by Tom Brown, Jr. add to wishlist The true story of a Native American whose tribe roamed free, far from the chaos we call "civilization." His wisdom is a remarkable integration of different philosophies and of different peoples, tribes, and religions. Tom Brown, Jr., shares the insights of his beloved teacher--insights that speak to the eternal spirit within us all. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.69!
11	Lonely Planet Peru more books like this by Sara Benson, Paul Hellander, Rafael Wlodarski add to wishlist This title contains strong activities focus, including surfing off the North Coast and hiking in the Cordillera Blanc and Cordillera Huayhuash. It contains a special section on the Incan World. It includes insightful history and culture chapters. It provides excellent coverage of Machu Picchu and spectacular lesser known archaeological sites. It ... see all copies from £11.42! new only from £11.64!
12 view cover	Colonial Latin America more books like this by Mark A Burkholder, Lyman Johnson add to wishlist Burkholder and Johnson's interpretive survey of colonial Latin America up to the 1850s is both historiographically up-to-date and accessible to students in the first half of the undergraduate Latin American history survey, which is given by virtually all major American colleges. The text incorporates new research in social and economic theory ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £6.48! \| first editions
13 view cover	Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 more books like this by John Thornton, Edmund Burke, III (Editor), Philip D Curtin (Editor) add to wishlist This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the ... see all copies from £10.55! new only from £14.36! \| first editions
14 view cover	Lost City of the Incas more books like this by Hiram Bingham, Jr. add to wishlist In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 ft above the ... see all copies from £1.89! new only from £5.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	A History of Latin America more books like this by Benjamin Keen add to wishlist This best-selling text for introductory Latin American history courses, A History of Latin America, encompasses political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organization, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £33.75!
16 view cover	Bruchko more books like this by Bruce R Olson add to wishlist What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson it meant capture and torture, but what he discovered revolutionized the world of missions. see all copies from £1.48! new only from £9.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	A Concise History of Brazil more books like this by Boris Fausto add to wishlist A Concise History of Brazil covers almost 500 years of Brazilian history, from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World to the political events that defined the recent transition from an authoritarian to a democratic political regime. Brazilian territorial unity and national identity were forged throughout the nineteenth century, after the ... see all copies from £6.68! new only from £9.81! \| first editions
18 view cover	Del amor y otros demonios more books like this by Gabriel Garcia Marquez add to wishlist A richly detailed, bittersweet story of two doomed lovers, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction--set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18th-century Columbia. see all copies from £3.88! new only from £7.65! \| first editions
19 view cover	Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America more books like this by Gary B Nash add to wishlist For courses in Colonial and Revolutionary American History. Written by highly acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash, this text presents an interpretive account of the interactions between Native Americans, African Americans, and Euroamericans during the colonial and revolutionary eras. It reveals the crucial interconnections between North America's ... see all copies* from £5.57! new only from £20.43!
20 view cover	Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence more books like this by Professor Benson J Lossing add to wishlist While most children grasp the importance of America's Declaration of Independence, few experience the lives of its multifarious signatories. Few read of the trials & tribulations of those who risked their "lives, fortunes & sacred honor" for the liberty we dearly cherish. "Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence", originally ... see all copies from £6.58! new only from £39.11! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America more books like this by Brian M Fagan add to wishlist How, where, when, and why did human beings take the first steps in their journey to populate North America? First published in 1987, The Great Journey tells the story of Brian Fagan's search for the first Americans - one of archaeology's great controversies. An enhanced edition of this dramatic narrative and real-life mystery follows the trail of ... see all copies from £3.09! new only from £6.78! \| first editions
22 view cover	Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors more books like this by Piers Paul Read add to wishlist In October 1972 an aircraft carrying a party of Uruguayan rugby players and their friends took off from Argentina to fly over the Andes to Chile. It crashed in the mountains in dense cloud, and some of the 45 passengers were killed. The survivors soon realized, by listening to their transistor radio, that the search party had been called off ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The General in His Labyrinth more books like this by Gabriel Garcia Marquez add to wishlist After his internationally acclaimed and bestselling Love in the Time of Cholera, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and author of the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude givesreat Simon Bolivar. Forced from power, the General embarks on a seven months' voyage down the Magdalena River, reflecting along the way on his life of campaigns and battles, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Lonely Planet Argentina more books like this by Danny Palmerlee, Sandra Bao, Andrew Dean Nystrom add to wishlist US and Canadian visitors to Argentina in 2006 totaled over 400,000 (Ministry of Tourism, Argentina). Lonely Planet sells more country travel guides in US bookstores than any other publisher (BookScan). The only guide to include substantial coverage of neighboring Uruguay, for short trips across the Rio de la Plata. see all copies from £12.36! new only from £12.36!
25 view cover	Images of the Past more books like this by T Douglas Price add to wishlist This well illustrated, site-by-site survey of prehistory captures the popular interest, excitement, and visual splendor of archaeology as it provides insight into current research, innovative interpretations, and important theoretical themes in the field. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £44.62! \| first editions

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