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America's Ancient Citiesby Gene S. StuartISBN 0870446274 (0-87044-627-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Ancient Cities'Book summary:Spanning 14,000 years, this handsome volume describes how settlements and cities evolved--vital developments in human history. Thoughtful text, complemented by haunting color photos, explores mysteries and recent discoveries. [via]
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The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Artby Linda Schele, Justin Kerr, Mary Ellen Miller, Kimbell Art MuseumISBN 0807612782 (0-8076-1278-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A comprehensive guide to the Maya which reveals kingship rites, ritual warfare, with a vast array of color plates and drawings. 122 color plates, 300 drawings and 50 black-and-white illustrations [via]More editions of The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art:
- The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art: ISBN 091280422X (0-912804-22-X)
Softcover, G. Braziller - The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art: ISBN 080761159X (0-8076-1159-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art: ISBN 0807612782 (0-8076-1278-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art: ISBN 091280422X (0-912804-22-X)
Book of Common Prayerby Joan DidionISBN 0679754865 (0-679-75486-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Breaking Faith: The Sandinista Revolution and It's Impact on Freedom and the Christian Faith in Nicaraguaby Humberto BelliISBN 0891073590 (0-89107-359-0)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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Breaking the Maya Codeby Michael D. CoeISBN 0500281335 (0-500-28133-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breaking the Maya Code'Book summary:Twenty years ago, the hieroglyphic inscriptions of ruined Mayan monuments were largely unread. Today, thanks to an extraordinary breakthrough, these inscribed remains are revealing a history lost to humanity for a millennium. An informed account of one of the most exciting adventures of our age. Illustrated. [via]
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Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companerasby Jennifer Harbury, Noam ChomskyISBN 156751068X (1-56751-068-X)
Softcover, Common Courage Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companeras'Book summary:oral testimonies, tr J Harbury [via]
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- Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companeras: ISBN 1567510167 (1-56751-016-7)
Softcover, Common Courage Press - Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companeras: ISBN 1567510698 (1-56751-069-8)
Hardcover, Common Courage Pr - Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companeras: ISBN 156751068X (1-56751-068-X)
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- Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companeras: ISBN 1567510167 (1-56751-016-7)
A Brief History of Central Americaby Hector Perez BrignoliISBN 0520068327 (0-520-06832-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Cien Anos De Soledadby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 082882567X (0-8288-2567-X)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad'Book summary:Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo .
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad:
- Cien Anos De Soledad: ISBN 843760494X (84-376-0494-X)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones - Cien Anos De Soledad: ISBN 8423919005 (84-239-1900-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp - Cien Anos De Soledad: ISBN 842392100X (84-239-2100-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Cien Anos De Soledad: ISBN 8439703872 (84-397-0387-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - Cien Anos De Soledad: ISBN 8439711085 (84-397-1108-5)
Hardcover, Mondadori - Cien Anos De Soledad: ISBN 082882567X (0-8288-2567-X)
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- Cien Anos De Soledad: ISBN 843760494X (84-376-0494-X)
Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0899667031 (0-89966-703-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
- Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude: ISBN 9580470324 (958-04-7032-4)
Softcover, Norma S A Editorial - Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude: ISBN 9871138148 (987-1138-14-8)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude: ISBN 9500700298 (950-07-0029-8)
Hardcover, Editorial Sudamericana - 100 Years of Solitude: ISBN 0899667031 (0-89966-703-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
- Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude: ISBN 9580470324 (958-04-7032-4)
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central Americaby Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale ScottISBN 0520214498 (0-520-21449-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Demonstration Elections: U.S.-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam and El Salvadorby Frank BrodheadISBN 0896082148 (0-89608-214-8)
Softcover, South End Pr
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El Senor Presidenteby Miguel Angel AsturiasISBN 950030578X (950-03-0578-X)
Softcover, Losada/Argentina
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El Senor Presidente/the Presidentby Miguel Angel AsutriasISBN 8437615178 (84-376-1517-8)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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A Flag for Sunriseby Robert StoneISBN 0679737626 (0-679-73762-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Flag for Sunrise'Book summary:An emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. [via]
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Mayaby Linda Schele, David FreidelISBN 0688112048 (0-688-11204-8)
Softcover, Quill
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Hummingbird Houseby Patricia HenleyISBN 1878448986 (1-878448-98-6)
Softcover, Macmurray & Beck Communication
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hummingbird House'Book summary:Kate Banner, an American midwife, heads to Mexico for a three-week visit in the mid-1980s and ends up staying south of the border for eight years. From Mexico she travels first to Nicaragua and then to Guatemala, two nations torn by revolution and sunk in horrific poverty and violence. Along the way, she delivers babies, administers what first aid she can, and becomes involved with a group of activists, most of them from North America. The novel opens in the midst of a hurricane, during which a young pregnant woman goes into labor in a rowboat. Kate successfully delivers the child, but the mother dies soon afterwards. It is this event that starts the wandering midwife thinking about going home at last. When a longtime love affair with an American arms supplier to the Sandinistas goes south, Kate heads to Guatemala where friends have a house for a little rest and some thinking time. All thoughts of Indiana are banished, however, when she meets her fellow lodger, Father Dixie Ryan, a priest who is struggling with his vocation. The two become lovers and decide to open Hummingbird House, a clinic and school for Guatemalan children. Unfortunately, even the best intentions can go disastrously awry, and Kate must experience terrible loss before she can find eventual salvation.
Patricia Henley spent many months traveling the roads her fictional heroine treads, gathering firsthand accounts from refugees, activists, and indigenous people. Though her novel never feels researched, every page bristles with quiet indignation at the political and military atrocities visited upon the innocent. "The maps do not tell you that the forests of Belize and Honduras were cut down to rebuild London after the Great Fires of 1666," Kate muses, sitting in her kitchen in the Guatemalan highlands.
They do not show you the scars of Nicaraguan children who lost their arms and legs when their school bus struck a Contra mine buried in the road. Nor do the maps delineate the precise number of Mayan cornfields soaked in gasoline and set afire by Guatemalan government soldiers. And they cannot tell you the exact words of the sermon given by Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, before his murder at his own altar.
Political novels run the risk of becoming polemical; Henley largely avoids this pitfall by concentrating on her characters' personal lives within the context of the extreme circumstances in which they find themselves. Some of her stylistic choices can prove, at times, confusing, such as her liberal use of flashback to flesh out her characters' pasts, and the occasional switch in voice from third person to first. Still, her dark tale is compelling enough to overcome such minor defects, and Hummingbird House, in the end, is an impressive first novel. --Margaret Prior [via]-
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemalaby Rigoberta Menchu, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Ann WrightISBN 0860917886 (0-86091-788-6)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central Americaby Walter LafeberISBN 0393309649 (0-393-30964-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America'Book summary:Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are five small countries, and yet no other part of the world is more important to the US. This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of Central American dependency. This second edition is updated to include new material covering the Reagan and Bush years, and the Iran/Contra affair. [via]
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- Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America: ISBN 0393302121 (0-393-30212-1)
Softcover, W.W. Norton - Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America: ISBN 0393017877 (0-393-01787-7)
Hardcover, Norton - Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America: ISBN 0393034348 (0-393-03434-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America: ISBN 0393309649 (0-393-30964-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America: ISBN 0393302121 (0-393-30212-1)
Inside Central America: The Essential Facts Past and Present on el Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Ricaby Phillip BerrymanISBN 0394729439 (0-394-72943-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa and Central Americaby Jane HunterISBN 0896082857 (0-89608-285-7)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Limekillerby Avram Davidson, Grania Davis, Henry Wessells, Ethan Davidson, Peter S. Beagle, Lucius ShepardISBN 1882968263 (1-882968-26-3)
Hardcover, Pathway Book Service
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Lonely Planet Central Americaby Tom Brosnahan, Rob Rachowiecki, Nancy Keller, Mark HonanISBN 0864422180 (0-86442-218-0)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestringby Gary ChandlerISBN 1741040299 (1-74104-029-9)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestringby Tom BrosnahanISBN 0864424183 (0-86442-418-3)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Costa Ricaby Paige Penland, Carolina MirandaISBN 1740597753 (1-74059-775-3)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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The Mayaby Michael D. CoeISBN 0500285055 (0-500-28505-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Maya'Book summary:In this revised and expanded introduction to the Maya, Professor Coe incorporates the latest ideas and research in a fast-changing field. Spectacular tomb discoveries at the city of Copan reveal some of the early artistic and architectural splendours at this major site. New finds here and elsewhere entail a complete reinterpretation of the relationship between the warrior-kings of the classic Maya lowlands and Teotihuacan, the greatest city of pre-Conquest America. Continuing epigraphic breakthroughs - decipherments of Maya inscriptions - demonstrate vividly the shifting power blocs among the competing Maya city-states. Special features of this revised edition are a new guide to visiting the Maya area and lists of rulers for the major classic cities. [via]
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- The Maya: ISBN 0500273278 (0-500-27327-8)
Softcover, Thames and Hudson - The Maya: ISBN 050027455X (0-500-27455-X)
Softcover, Thames and Hudson - The Maya: ISBN 0500277168 (0-500-27716-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Maya: ISBN 0500280665 (0-500-28066-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Maya: ISBN 0500020973 (0-500-02097-3)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson - The Maya: ISBN 0500021155 (0-500-02115-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Maya: ISBN 0500285055 (0-500-28505-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Maya: ISBN 0500273278 (0-500-27327-8)
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Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchu Y Asi Me Nacio LA Concienciaby Elizabeth Burgos, Elisabeth Burgos-DebrayISBN 9682313155 (968-23-1315-5)
Softcover, Editorial Trillas Sa De Cv
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The Mosquito Coastby Paul TherouxISBN 0140060898 (0-14-006089-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mosquito Coast'Book summary:Allie Fox hates America and everything about the 20th century, so he decides to take his wife and two sons to live a better and simpler life in the Honduran jungle. However, when he starts to go mad, life for his family becomes much more frightening than ever before. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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- Mosquito Coast: ISBN 0582418143 (0-582-41814-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - The Mosquito Coast: ISBN 0618658963 (0-618-65896-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Mosquito Coast: ISBN 0380619458 (0-380-61945-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Mosquito Coast: ISBN 0241106885 (0-241-10688-5)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton - The Mosquito Coast: ISBN 0395318378 (0-395-31837-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Mosquito Coast: ISBN 0395320755 (0-395-32075-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Mosquito Coast: ISBN 0140060898 (0-14-006089-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Mosquito Coast: ISBN 0582418143 (0-582-41814-3)
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Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Aloneby Mary MorrisISBN 0312199414 (0-312-19941-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone'Book summary:Great travel writing has always been about the person making the trip as well as the things he or she encounters, and Mary Morris's category-defying 1988 memoir was an instant classic as much for its candid revelation of the author's turbulent emotions as for its sensitive, unglamorous portrait of a Latin America most tourists never see. Living in a poor neighborhood of the small Mexican town San Miguel de Allende, Morris befriends a neighbor, Lupe, who is struggling to support her many children (fathered by three different men) and to cope with her current, openly unfaithful partner. Scenes of life in San Miguel alternate with Morris's voyages around Central America, from the historic ruins of Teotihuacán to the contemporary turmoil of Nicaragua under the Sandinistas. Memories of her past crowd in: her parents' tense marriage, which sparked the restlessness that keeps their daughter on the road; her difficult relationships with often cruel men; the desolation of the years prior to her departure for San Miguel. Neither her affection for Lupe nor her love affair with a Mexico City man can prevent Morris's eventual return to the U.S., but her eloquent, elegant prose makes it clear that the grim, grand landscape and its tenacious inhabitants have left an indelible imprint on her soul. --Wendy Smith [via]
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- Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone: ISBN 014009587X (0-14-009587-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone: ISBN 0395446376 (0-395-44637-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone: ISBN 0312199414 (0-312-19941-4)
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- Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone: ISBN 014009587X (0-14-009587-X)
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americasby Paul TherouxISBN 039552105X (0-395-52105-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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- The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas: ISBN 0395277884 (0-395-27788-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas: ISBN 0671688944 (0-671-68894-4)
Hardcover, Pocket Books - The Old Patagonian Express by Train Through the Americas: ISBN 039552105X (0-395-52105-X)
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- The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas: ISBN 0395277884 (0-395-27788-4)
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Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914by David Willis McCulloughISBN 0671244094 (0-671-24409-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914'Book summary:On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia.
All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the Panama Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To build a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an easy matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to involve the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually those workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to build a pyramid a mile high. In the early years, they toiled under the direction of French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who went bankrupt while pursuing his dream of extending France's empire in the Americas. The United States then entered the picture, with President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrating the purchase of the canal--but not before helping foment a revolution that removed Panama from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.
The story of the Panama Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough's long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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- Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914: ISBN 0743262131 (0-7432-6213-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914: ISBN 0671225634 (0-671-22563-4)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster - Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914: ISBN 0671244094 (0-671-24409-4)
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- Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914: ISBN 0743262131 (0-7432-6213-1)
Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central Americaby James DunkerleyISBN 0860919129 (0-86091-912-9)
Softcover, Verso Books
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The Presidentby Miguel Angel Asturias, Frances PartridgeISBN 0881339512 (0-88133-951-2)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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The Rough Guide To Central Americaby Paul Smith, Jean McNeil, Rough Guides, Lain Stewart, Andy Symington, Joe Fullman, Brendon Griffin, Toby NortcliffeISBN 1843532883 (1-84353-288-3)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Seaby Gary KinderISBN 0871134640 (0-87113-464-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea'Book summary:The facts speak for themselves. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface--a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable--until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars.
Author Gary Kinder wisely lets the story of the Columbus-America Discovery Group, led by maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy Thompson, unfold without hyperbole. Kinder interweaves the tale of the Central America and her passengers and crew with Thompson's own story of growing up landlocked in Ohio, an irrepressible tinkerer and explorer even in his childhood days, and his progress to adulthood as a young man who always had "7 to 14" projects on the table or spinning in his head at any given moment. One of those projects would become the preposterous recovery of the stricken steamer, and the resourcefulness and later urgency with which the project would proceed is contrasted poignantly with the Central America's doomed battle in 1857 to stay afloat.
Thompson, who spent nearly a decade planning and organizing his recovery effort, emerges as one of the great unsung adventurers of these times (the technical innovations alone required for such a task produced a windfall for the scientific community and defined a new state of the art for deep-sea explorers and treasure hunters), and the story of the steamer's sinking is compelling enough to make any reader wonder why the Central America sinking isn't synonymous with shipwreck in this Titanic-happy age. --Tjames Madison [via]
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Silence On The Mountain: Stories Of Terror, Betrayal, And Forgetting In Guatemalaby Daniel WilkinsonISBN 0822333686 (0-8223-3368-6)
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Turning the Tide: The Us & Latin Americaby Noam ChomskyISBN 0920057918 (0-920057-91-8)
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Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central American and the Struggle for Peaceby Noam ChomskyISBN 0896082660 (0-89608-266-0)
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Under the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1848by Karl BermannISBN 0896083233 (0-89608-323-3)
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Warriors, Gods and Spirits from Central and South American Mythologyby Douglas Gifford, John Sibbeck, Heather DewISBN 0872269140 (0-87226-914-0)
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The World of the Ancient Mayaby John S. HendersonISBN 0801482844 (0-8014-8284-4)
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Cien Anos De Soledadby G. Garcia MarquezISBN 9500726092 (950-07-2609-2)
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Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad:
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 968131574X (968-13-1574-X)
Softcover, Editorial Diana S.A. De C.V.
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Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
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Cien Anos De Soledad: Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 8434602601 (84-346-0260-1)
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Cien Anos De Soledad/One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 8420421367 (84-204-2136-7)
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La Costa de los Mosquitosby Paul TherouxISBN 8483105381 (84-8310-538-1)
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Lonely Planet Costa Ricaby Carolina A. MirandaISBN 8408056220 (84-08-05622-0)
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El Senor Presidenteby Miguel Ángel AsturiasISBN 8420618292 (84-206-1829-2)
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