John Man

From Jungle Child to Rainforest Activist

We Will Not Be Saved: A Memoir of Hope and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest

By Nemonte Nenquimo, with Mitch Anderson

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Daniel Rey

Priests with Pick Axes

How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo

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November 2021 Issue

Oliver Balch

The Invention of Amazonia

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David Gelber

The Gaucho Who Unified Italy

Garibaldi in South America: An Exploration

By Richard Bourne

April 2020 Issue

Patrick Wilcken

Troubled Waters

Magdalena: River of Dreams

By Wade Davis

December 2019 Issue

David Gelber

Lucky Bastards

The Braganzas: The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640–1910

By Malyn Newitt

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November 2018 Issue

Benn Sheridan

Trouble in Chilitenango

Lost Children

By Christopher Hart

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November 2018 Issue

Ellen Jones

The Watcher

People in the Room

By Norah Lange (Translated by Charlotte Whittle)

September 2018 Issue

David Gelber

Slaves to History

Brazil: A Biography

By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz & Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling

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August 1995 Issue

Johnny Acton

Never a Bore

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

By Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Translated by Ann Wright

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February 2003 Issue

Richard Gott

The Lynch Mob

The Empress of South America: The True Story of Eliza Lynch

By Nigel Cawthorne

The Shadows of Eliza Lynch

By Siân Rees

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: A Riotous Journey into the Heart of Paraguay

By John Gimlette

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Jeremy Reed

Scarlet Honey

Elemental Odes

By Pablo Neruda (Translated by Margaret Sayers Pedan [ed])

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June 2016 Issue

David Gelber

Making a Killing

Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil

By Alex Cuadros

Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City

By Luiz Eduardo Soares (Translated by Anthony Doyle)

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June 2016 Issue

Tim Richardson

Altering the Landscape

Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist

By Jens Hoffmann & Claudia J Nahson

November 2015 Issue

Patrick Wilcken

Conqueror of Chimborazo

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

By Andrea Wulf

August 2015 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

To the Wild Coast

Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony

By Matthew Parker

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Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Fighting For Survival

Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians In the Twentieth Century

By John Hemming

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June 2004 Issue

Sebastian Shakespeare

Sugar And Sex

A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions

By Peter Robb

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July 2004 Issue

Sebastian Shakespeare

Blood And Ink

Pablo Neruda: A Passion For Life

By Adam Feinstein

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August 2006 Issue

Christopher Hart

Only in South America

Ghost Train through the Andes: On My Grandfather’s Trail in Chile and Bolivia

By Michael Jacobs

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