South category: 6019 books
Marching Powder
A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalist went to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. They formed an instant...
by William Alexander Percy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This fascinating volume contains the memoirs of William Alexander Percy, who was born and raised in Mississippi and witnessed the social changes at the turn of the century. 'Lanterns on the Levee' is his memorial to the South within which he describes life in the Mississippi Delta, during the time...
by Tammy Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is a seaport city and its historic downtown is on a peninsula formed by two rivers, Ashley and Cooper, flowing into the Atlantic, and protected from the open ocean by surrounding islands. Charleston was captured...
Cloud Forest
A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1987
A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu,...
A Manifesto for Social Change
How to Save South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country’s – and the continent’s – development obstacles. Architects of Poverty (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating and promoting...
Nelson Mandela
The Fight Against Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Nelson Mandela in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Nelson Mandela’s lifelong fight against apartheid. This system of racial segregation was enshrined in law in South...
by Georg McCall Theal
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Kaffir (Xhosa) Folk Tales
by Georg McCall Theal
"[A collection of folklore from the Kaffir people of South Africa.]
By the 15th century, the word kafir/kuffir was used by Muslims in Africa to refer to the non-Muslim African natives. (Kafir translated means infidel / disbeliever.)...
by Martin Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
Martin...
Film + Travel North America, South America
Traveling the World Through Your Favorite Movies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Featuring color photographs of movie locations, sites, and landmarks, this guide for film buffs and travel lovers provides information about notable scenes from nearly 200 movies shot throughout North and South America. Report a fire at the hook & ladder company #8 if you want to see Ghostbusters’...
by Johnny Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Experience great hiking in the scenic swath of Tennessee between Nashville and Knoxville.
Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, a wide tableland cut with a dizzying array of deep gorges, is a geological wonderland. It is a place to behold and a place to savor. This new entry in the trusted series...
by Vincent Lawal
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Botswana Governance and Political History, Towards the turn of the 19th century, the people who resided in the area known as Botswana, made up at least eight ethnic Chiefdoms whose peoples shared a common language and history, and co-existed in relative peace. Traditional boundaries of the southern...
Into that Heaven of Freedom
The impact of apartheid on an Indian family's diasporic history
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book captures the history of the South African Ismaili families and some of the people among whom they lived from 1894, when the first Ismaili, Jeevan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, up to 1994, when the country attained its multiparty democracy following the...
by Jon Yu
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
It's time to plan your visit to the most visited city in South America...
Are you a tango addict? Are you looking to explore tango further? Or do you simply want to go on an adventure to somewhere new?
No matter how long you have been dancing tango or if you dance at all, you owe it...
Falklands Gunner
A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces’ successful operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982. The actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which he kept before, during and after the conflict.
Second...