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Welcome to Mexico! Are you ready to tour around the place and meet new people? Then go ahead and open this book! Here, you will get your first truly Mexican experience through pictures and texts. You will have an idea of what life is like in this part of the planet. You can use this book as an introduction prior to an actual visit. Grab a copy now!

As the dust settled on Port-au-Prince, hope was the last thing anybody could see. When the earth shook, his whole neighborhood disappeared. Now a boy and his mother are living in the soccer stadium, in a shelter made of tin and bedsheets, with long lines for food and water. But even with so...

From award-winning Jamaican author Diana McCaulay, Gone to Drift is a powerful voice-driven middle grade novel about family set in Jamaica. Lloyd comes from a long line of fishermen. Growing up in Kingston, Jamaica, Lloyd feels most at home with the sea and his grandfather, Maas Conrad, at...

Ao retornar de uma viagem à Guatemala, Ziraldo chegou entusiasmado com a poesia de Humberto Ak'abal, guatemalteco de origem maia, um dos grandes poetas de seu país. De sua vasta obra, as lembranças infantis foram as que mais comoveram nosso autor. Nelas, ele encontrou muitos pontos de identidade...

Example in this ebook   Probably the most important of the South American republics, Brazil has now won for herself world recognition and esteem. Though Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama made formal declarations of war against the German Empire,...

Félix de Azara, 18 de mayo de 1742 (Barbuñales, Huesca)-1821. España.Fue militar, ingeniero, explorador, cartógrafo, antropólogo y naturalista.Estudió en la Universidad de Huesca y en la Academia militar de Barcelona dónde se graduó en 1764. Sirvió en el regimiento de infantería de Galicia...

 Join Tee-la and De-Nar as they encounter a mystical cavern containing beautiful crystals that can reveal wisdom from the past, present, and future. Guided by a holy man named Sumat, the children are taken on a journey through time and space that teaches them about love and gratitude.

Ana loves stories. She often makes them up to help her little brother fall asleep. But in her small village there are only a few books and she has read them all. One morning, Ana wakes up to the clip-clop of hooves, and there before her, is the most wonderful sight: a traveling library resting on...

Félix de Azara, 18 de mayo de 1742 (Barbuñales, Huesca)-1821. España.Fue militar, ingeniero, explorador, cartógrafo, antropólogo y naturalista.Estudió en la Universidad de Huesca y en la Academia militar de Barcelona dónde se graduó en 1764. Sirvió en el regimiento de infantería de Galicia...

Tres siglos de negociaciones y tratados no bastaron a poner de acuerdo las Cortes de Madrid y Lisboa sobre el deslinde de sus colonias, y estas cuestiones, que habían empezado con su dominación en América, no terminaron con su decadencia. Cada paso que daban, aumentaba las dudas y hacía más difícil...

Basilio Villarino (1741-1785). España.Nació en La Coruña en 1741 y llegó al Río de la Plata en 1773 en la fragata Perpetua, al mando del capitán Bustillos. Su largo viaje por la Patagonia argentina comenzó en 1778, con la exploración de los ríos Colorado, Negro, Deseado y Limay, entre otros....

Entre varios papeles que dejó Azara en poder de su compañero y amigo, don Pedro Cerviño, se hallaba el borrador autógrafo de su Correspondencia oficial inédita sobre los trabajos de demarcación: documento importante, que contiene la historia de las controversias suscitadas por los Comisarios...

Example in this ebook   Largest of all the fair West Indian Islands which lie in our open doorway is Cuba. The great south doorway to the United States and all North America, you know, is the Gulf of Mexico. But recently, as we all remember, we have had war and bloodshed...