Bibliography of South America
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This bibliography of South America is a list of English-language nonfiction books which have been described by reliable sources as in some way directly relating to the subject of South America
, its history, geography, culture, people, etc.
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
, its history, geography, culture, people, etc.
- Adelaar, Willem F. H.Willem AdelaarWillem F. H. Adelaar is a Dutch linguist on American autochthonous languages, specially Andean languages. He is Professor of indigenous American Linguistics and Cultures at Leiden University.-Selected publications:...
with Pieter C. Muysken - The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge, 2004, ISBN 052136275X. - Adelman, Jeremy - Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic.
- Afolabi, Niyi, ed. - Marvels of the African World: Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections and Identities.
- Ahvenainen, Jorma - The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. ISBN 9510-410-0947-3.
- Allende, IsabelIsabel AllendeIsabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...
- My invented country: a nostalgic journey through Chile. - Allofs, Theo - Pantanal: South America's Wetland Jewel.
- Anderson, Jon LeeJon Lee AndersonJon Lee Anderson is a biographer, author, international investigative reporter, and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from warzone locales such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Israel, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East. Anderson has also written for The New...
- Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life. New York: Grove Press, 1997. - Armstrong, Christopher and Nelles, H. V. - Southern Exposure.
- Attlee, Rupert - The trail to Titicaca: a journey through South America.
- Baim, Jo - Tango: creation of a cultural icon.
- Barlow, Barry H. - Revolution in the Americas.
- Betanzos, Juan deJuan de BetanzosJuan de Betanzos wrote one of the most important sources on the conquest of the Incan civilization, Narrative of the Incas. He based this account of the Incas on the testimony of his wife, who had been previously married to Incan King Atahualpa as well as conducting interviews of Incans who had...
- Narrative of the Incas. - Bethell, Leslie, ed. - The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume VIII.
- Blackburn, RobinRobin BlackburnRobin Blackburn is a British socialist historian, a former editor of New Left Review , an author of essays on Marx, capitalism and socialism, and of books on the history of slavery and on social policy...
- The rise and fall of slavery in the Americas: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights. - Blanchard, Peter - Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-822-95992-2.
- Blashford-Snell, JohnJohn Blashford-SnellColonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell OBE is a former British Army officer, explorer and author.John Blashford-Snell was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, then commissioned into the Royal Engineers.Amongst his expeditions have been the first descent...
- East to the Amazon: in search of Great Paititi and the trade routes of the ancients. - Bolivar, SimonSimón BolívarSimón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Yeiter, commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader...
- The Bolivarian revolution. - Bonavia, Duccio, trans. by. Javier Flores Espinoza. The South American camelids, expanded and corrected ed. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008. ISBN 9781831745413, 9781931745406.
- Boudin, ChesaChesa BoudinChesa Boudin is an American progressive writer and lecturer, focused on Latin American issues. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Yale Law School in 2011.-Early Life and Family:...
- Gringo: coming of age in Latin America. - Bouzas, Roberto, and Jaime Ros, eds. - Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. ISBN 0-268-00930-9.
- Burges, Sean W. - Brazilian foreign policy after the Cold War. University of Florida Press, 2009, ISBN 9780813033334.
- Bushby, KarlKarl BushbyKarl Bushby is a British ex-paratrooper, walking adventurer and author, currently attempting to be the first person to completely walk an unbroken path around the world. Bushby's trek is known as the Goliath Expedition.-Early life:...
- Giant Steps: an American odyssey from Punta Arenas to the edge of Alaska. Sphere. ISBN 978-0751536959. - Cahill, TimTim Cahill (writer)Tim Cahill is a travel writer who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editor of Outside magazine and currently serves as an "Editor at Large" for the magazine.-Biography:...
- Road Fever: A High-Speed Travelogue. - Campbell, LyleLyle CampbellLyle Richard Campbell is a linguist and leading expert on indigenous American languages—especially those of Mesoamerica—and on historical linguistics in general. He also has expertise in Uralic languages. He is presently Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.-Life and...
- On South American Indian languages. - Cardoso, Fernando HenriqueFernando Henrique CardosoFernando Henrique Cardoso – also known by his initials FHC – was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician...
- The Accidental President of Brazil. - Casey, Michael - Che's afterlife: the legacy of an image.
- Castaneda, Jorge G. - Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
- Castro, Max J., ed. - Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders? Trends in International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas. Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center Press, 1999.
- Castner, James L. - Rainforests: A Guide to Research and Tourist Facilities in Selected Tropical Forest Sites in Central and South America.
- Childress, David HatcherDavid Hatcher ChildressDavid Hatcher Childress is an American author and publisher of books on topics on alternative history and historical revisionism. His works cover such subjects as pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, Atlantis, Lemuria, Ancient Astronauts, UFOs, Nikola Tesla, the Knights Templar, lost cities and...
- Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America. ISBN 0-932813-02-X. - Chilies to chocolate: food the Americas gave the world.
- Chomsky, NoamNoam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
- Hopes and Prospects. - Colby, GerardGerard ColbyGerard Colby is president of the US National Writers Union where he previously held various chair positions. From 1997-2001 he served as chair of the Vermont section.He worked on .....
- Thy Will Be Done: the Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. HarperCollins, 1995, ISBN 0-06-016764-5. - Comaroff, JeanJean ComaroffJean Comaroff is Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. She is an expert on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa.She...
and John L. ComaroffJohn ComaroffJohn L. Comaroff is a Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is also Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation....
- Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. - Connaghan, Catherine M. and James M. Malloy - Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
- Correlli, Gena K. - In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People. Tundra, 2007.
- Curbelo, NestorNestor CurbeloNestor Esteban Curbelo Armando is a historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Uruguay and Argentina. A native of Uruguay, Curbelo has lived most of his adult life in Argentina...
- The History of the Mormons in Argentina. - Curto, Jose C. and Renee Soulodre-La France - Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade.
- Dantas, Mariana L. R., ed. by Amy Turner Bushnell and Jack P. Greene - Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas.
- Darwin, CharlesCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
- The Voyage of the BeagleThe Voyage of the BeagleThe Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect...
. - Davies, Catherine, Claire Brewster, and Hilary Owen - South American Independence: gender, politics, text.
- Derr, MarkMark DerrMark Derr is an American author and journalist, noted for his books on dogs, as well as the social and environmental developments of Florida. His articles have appeared in various well-known magazines, such as The Atlantic Monthly and Natural History, in addition to several other...
- A dog's history of America: how our best friend explored, conquered, and settled a continent. - Deutsch, Sandra McKee - Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.
- Dewar, Elaine - Bones: discovering the first Americans.
- Dillehay, Tom D.Tom DillehayTom Dillehay is an American anthropologist who is the Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. While working at Universidad Austral de Chile he was involved in the excavations at Monte Verde...
- The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory. New York: Basic Books, 2000. - Dominguez, Jorge I.Jorge I. DominguezJorge I. Dominguez is a Cuban American educator and writer.Dr. Dominguez is presently the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and Senior...
and Abraham F. Lowenthal - Constructing Democratic Governance: South America in the 1990s. - Drake, Paul W. - Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective.
- Drury, NevillNevill DruryNevill Drury is an editor, publisher, and professional in many aspects of the publishing business, as well as the author of over forty books on subjects ranging from shamanism and western magical traditions to art, music, and anthropology. His books have been published in fifteen languages...
- The Shaman's Quest: Journeys in an Ancient Spiritual Practice. - Dwyer, Augusta - Into the Amazon: Chico Mendes and The Struggle for The Rain Forest // Review.
- Early, John D. and John F. Peters - The Population Dynamics of the Mucajai Yanomama.
- Eaton, Kent - Politics Beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America. Stanford, 2004, ISBN 0804749914.
- Elliott, John Huxtable - Empires of the Atlantic world: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.
- Farer, Tom, ed. - Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
- Feinberg, Richard E. - Summitry in the Americas. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1997.
- Fernandez-Armesto, FelipeFelipe Fernández-ArmestoFelipe Fernández-Armesto is a British historian and author of several popular works of history.He was born in London, his father was the Spanish journalist Felipe Fernández Armesto and his mother was Betty Millan de Fernandez-Armesto, a British-born journalist and co-founder and editor of The...
- The Americas: a hemispheric history. - Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America.
- Fuson, Robert H. - Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida.
- Galenao, Eduardo H. - Soccer in sun and shadow.
- Garber, Paul A.Paul GarberPaul Garber is a primatologist and the author and editor of several books and articles about primates. He is a professor at the University of Illinois. He is editor of the American Journal of Primatology and director of research and education at La Suerte Biological Field School in Costa Rica...
, et al., eds. - South American primates: comparative perspectives in the study of behavior, ecology, and conservation. - Garcia Marquez, GabrielGabriel García MárquezGabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
- Clandestine in Chile: the adventures of Miguel Littin. - Gardner, Alfred L. - Mammals of South America.
- Gentzier, Edwin - Translation and identity in the Americas: new directions in translation theory. Routledge, 2008, ISBN 9780415774512.
- Gibson, Christine - Extreme natural disasters.
- Giesso, Martin - Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America. Scarecrow, 2008.
- Gordon, Theisen - The life of Eva Peron.
- Gould, Carol Grant - The remarkable life of William Beeve: explorer and naturalist.
- Granado, AlbertoAlberto GranadoAlberto Granado was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of revolutionary Che Guevara during their 1952 trip around Latin America, and later founded the Santiago School of Medicine in Cuba...
- Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary. - Green, DuncanDuncan Green- Previous Employment :Prior to working there he was employed as a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and Development at the Department for International Development . He was responsible for looking at trade in goods. His post at DFID was originally a secondment from CAFOD. At CAFOD he had been their...
- Silent Revolution: The Rise of Market Economics in Latin America. - Grow, Michael S. - U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War.
- Guevara, ErnestoChe GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
- The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America. - Guevara Lynch, Ernesto - Young Che: memories of Che Guevara by his father.
- Harrison, John - Off the map: a journey through the Amazonian wild.
- Harvey, Brian, Henk Smid, and Theo Pirard - Emerging space powers: the new space programs of Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Springer/Praxis, 2010. ISBN 9781441898735.
- Heckman, Charles W. - Encyclopedia of South American aquatic insects: Odonata - Anisoptera: illustrated keys to known families, genera, and species in South America. Springer, 2006, ISBN 1402048017.
- Heggstad, Glen - Two wheels through terror: diary of a South American motorcycle odyssey.
- Hill, Geoff - The road to Gobblers Knob: From Chile to Alaska on a motorbike.
- Hill, Jonathan D. and Fernando Santos-Granero, eds. - Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia.
- Honigsbaum, Mark - The fever trail: in search of the cure for malaria.
- Honigsbaum, Mark - Valverde's gold: in search of the last great Inca treasure.
- Kane, JoeJoe KaneJoe Kane is an American author of two books and is also a journalist who writes for numerous publications such as The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Esquire...
- Savages. Knopf, 1995. ISBN 0679411917. - Katz, FriedrichFriedrich KatzC. Friedrich Katz was an Austrian-born anthropologist and historian specialized in 19th and 20th century history of Latin America; particularly, in the Mexican Revolution...
- Ancient American Civilizations. - Kelly, Philip and Jack Child, eds. - Geopolitics of the Southern Cone and Antarctica.
- Koch, Peter O. - The Spanish conquest of the Inca empire.
- Kozloff, Nikolas - Revolution!: South America and the rise of the new left.
- Kricher, John C. – A Neotropical Companion: an Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1999. ISBN 978-0-691-00974-2
- Larson, Brooke, and Olivia Harris with Enrique Tandeter, ed. - Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology.
- Linz, Juan J.Juan LinzJuan José Linz is a Spanish sociologist and political scientist. He is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute...
and Alfred StepanAlfred StepanAlfred C. Stepan is a comparative political scientist and Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, where he is also director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion....
- Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. - Lord, Rexford D. - Mammals of South America.
- Lynch, JohnJohn Lynch (historian)John Lynch is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History at the University of London. He spent most of his academic career at University College, and then from 1974 to 1987 as Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies...
- San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American Hero. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-12643-3. - Lynch, John - Simon Bolivar: A Life. Yale, 2006, ISBN 0300110626.
- MacLachlan, Colin M. - Argentina: what went wrong.
- Madge, Tim - White Mischief: A Cultural History of Cocaine. 2004, ISBN 1560253703.
- Magan, ManchanManchán MaganManchán Magan is a writer, traveller and television maker. He has made over 30 travel documentaries focusing on issues of world cultures and globalization, 12 of them packaged under the Global Nomad series with his brother Ruán Magan. He presented No Béarla, a documentary series about traveling...
- Angels and Rabies: a journey through the Americas. - Mainwaring, Scott, Ana Maria Bejarno, and Eduardo Pizarro Leongomez, eds. - The crisis of democratic representation in the Andes. Stanford, 2006, ISBN 0804752788, 9780804752787.
- Mainwaring, Scott, Guillermo O'DonnellGuillermo O'DonnellGuillermo O'Donnell was a prominent Argentine political scientist, named the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. His brother, Pacho O'Donnell, is a well-known politician and writer.-Biography:O'Donnell was born in...
, and J. Samuel Valenzuela, eds. - Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective. - Mancilla, Lucio V., trans. by Eva Gillies - A visit to the Ranquel Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
- Marcy, William L. - The politics of cocaine: how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America.
- Marley, David F. - Historic Cities of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2005, ISBN 1-57607-027-1, 1-57607-574-5.
- Marley, David F. - Pirates of the Americas: v. 1: 1650-1685; v. 2 - 1686-1725.
- Martin, Felix E. - Militarist peace in South America: conditions for war and peace. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 1403973121, 9781402973122.
- Masterson, Daniel M. - The history of Peru.
- Matthiessen, PeterPeter MatthiessenPeter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and non-fiction writer, as well as an environmental activist...
- The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness. - Mayle, Simon - The Burial Brothers.
- McEwan, Gordon Francis - The Incas: new perspectives.
- Millard, CandiceCandice MillardCandice Sue Millard is an American writer and journalist. She is a former writer and editor for National Geographic and the author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, a history of the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition, Theodore Roosevelt's exploration of the Amazon...
. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-50796-8. - Muller, KarinKarin MullerKarin Muller is a Swiss-born author, filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer. Muller set out in the 1990s to travel the world's historic highways...
- Along the Inca Road: a woman's journey into an ancient empire. - Naipaul, V. S.V. S. NaipaulSir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC is a Nobel prize-winning Indo-Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism...
- The Middle Passage: the Caribbean RevisitedThe Middle Passage (book)The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America is a 1962 book-length essay / travelogue by V.S. Naipaul. It is his first book-length work of non-fiction...
. - Nance, John J.John J. NanceJohn J. Nance is an American pilot, aviation safety expert, and author. His novels are largely about aviation, while his non-fiction covers various other areas.-Biography:Nance was born in Dallas, Texas...
- On Shaky Ground. - Newson, Linda A. and Susie Minchin - From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century.
- Newton, A. C., ed. - Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented Forest Landscapes: The Forests of Montane Mexico and Temperate South America.
- Nohlen, DieterDieter NohlenProfessor Dieter Nohlen is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emiratus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg...
, ed. - Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook: v.1: North America, Central America, and the Caribbean; v.2: South America. Oxford, 2005, ISBN 0199253587. - Novas, Fernando E.Fernando NovasFernando Emilio Novas is an Argentine paleontologist working for the Comparative Anatomy Department of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural History Argentine Museum in Buenos Aires...
- The Age of Dinosaurs in South America. Indiana, 2009, ISBN 9780253352897. - Ocamp, Emilio - The emperor's last campaign: a Napoleanic empire in America. Alabama, 2009, ISBN 9780817316464.
- Olsen, Dale A. - The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese diaspora.
- Opere, Fernando - Indian captivity in Spanish America: frontier narratives.
- Pan American Health OrganizationPan American Health OrganizationThe Pan American Health Organization is an international public health agency with over 100 years of experience working to improve health and living standards of the people of the Americas...
, ed. - Health in the Americas: 1998 edition. - Perez-Mejia, Angela, translated by Dick Cluster - A Geography of Hard Times: Narratives about Travel to South America, 1780-1849. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004, ISBN 0-791-6013-4.
- Plotkin, MarkMark PlotkinMark J. Plotkin is an ethnobotanist and a plant explorer in the Neotropics, where he is an expert on rainforest ecosystems...
- Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Viking. - Pryce, Lois - Lois on the loose: one woman, one motorcycle, 20,000 miles across the Americas.
- Punnett, Betty Jane, et. al. - Successful professional women of the Americas: from polar winds to tropical breezes. Elgar, 2006, ISBN 1845424379.
- Redford, Kent H. and Christian Padoch, eds. - Conservation of neotropical forests: working from traditional resource use.
- Reel, Monte - The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon. Scriber, 2010. ISBN 9781416594741.
- Restall, Robin, Clemencia Rodner, and Miguel Lention with David Ascanio - Birds of northern South America: an identification guide: v.1: Species accounts; v.2: Plates and maps.Yale, 2006, ISBN 0300125046.
- Rumsey, DavidDavid RumseyDavid Rumsey is a map collector and the founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection. He is also the president of Cartography Associates.Rumsey has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University and was a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts...
and Edith M. Punt - Cartographica extraordinaire: the historical map transformed. ESRI, Inc. 2004, ISBN 1589480449. - Saifer, Neil - Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America.
- Sanchez, German - Cuba and Venezuela: an insight into two revolutions.
- Saunders, NicholasNicholas J. SaundersNicholas J. Saunders is a British academic archaeologist and anthropologist. He was educated at the universities of Sheffield , Cambridge , and Southampton...
- Ancient Americas: the great civilisations. - Schappert, Phil - The last monarch butterfly: conserving the monarch buttefly in a brave new world.
- Shah, TahirTahir ShahTahir Shah , né Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi is an Anglo-Afghan Indian author, journalist and documentary maker. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.-Family origins and life:...
- Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in GondwanalandBeyond the Devil's TeethBeyond the Devil's Teeth is a travel book by Anglo-Afghan author, Tahir Shah.Forty-five million years ago, Gondwanaland split apart to form India, Africa and South America...
. - Shah, Tahir - House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost Inca CityHouse of the Tiger KingHouse of the Tiger King is a travel book by Anglo-Afghan author, Tahir Shah.When the Spanish Conquistadors swept through Peru in the sixteenth century, they were searching for great golden treasure. In 1572 they stormed the Inca stronghold of Vilcabamba, only to find the city deserted, burned, and...
. - Shah, Tahir - Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of PeruTrail of FeathersTrail of Feathers is a travel book by Anglo-Afghan author, Tahir Shah.Enthralled by a line from the chronicle of a sixteenth-century monk, which said that the Incas ‘flew like birds’ over the jungle, and by the recurring theme of flying in Peruvian folklore, Tahir Shah set out to discover whether...
. - Shukman, HenryHenry ShukmanHenry Shukman is an English poet and writer. In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, In Dr No's Garden, published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize...
- Sons of the moon: a journey in the Andes. - Silvius, Kirsten M., Richard E. Bodmer, and Jose M. V. Fragaso, eds. - Peoples in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America.
- Simons, Eric - Darwin slept here: discovery, adventure and swimming iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America.
- Sivak, MartinMartín SivakMartín Sivak is an Argentinian journalist and author. His non-fiction books include works on the Bolivian Presidents Juan José Torres, Hugo Banzer and Evo Morales.-Books:...
- Evo Morales: The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia. - Slatta, Richard W. - Cowboys of the Americas.
- Slatta, Richard W. - Simon Bolivar's quest for glory.
- Starkell, DonDon StarkellDon Starkell is a Canadian adventurer, diarist and author.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he had a difficult childhood including an abusive father, four and a half years in an orphanage, and later with a foster family in North Kildonan. He took up canoeing in his teens and at age 17 was named Most...
- Paddle to the Amazon. - Symmes, Patrick - Chasing Che: a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend.
- Tarver, Hollis Michael Denova - The History of Venezuela.
- Theroux, PaulPaul TherouxPaul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps The Great Railway Bazaar . He has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his...
- The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the AmericasThe Old Patagonian ExpressThe Old Patagonian Express is a written account of a journey taken by novelist Paul Theroux. Starting out from his home town in Massachusetts, via Boston and Chicago, Theroux travels by train across the North American plains to Laredo, Texas. He then crosses the border and takes a train south...
. - Thompson, Angela - Textiles of Central and South America. Crowood Press, 2006, ISBN 1861268262, 9781861268266.
- Tidwell, Mike - Amazon stranger.
- Tierney, Patrick - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the AmazonDarkness in El DoradoDarkness in El Dorado is a book written by investigative journalist Patrick Tierney in 2000 that accuses geneticist James Neel and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon of exacerbating a measles epidemic among the Yanomamo people and conducting human research without regard for their subjects' wellbeing...
. - Trexler, Richard C.Richard TrexlerRichard Trexler was a professor of History at the Binghamton University, State University of New York. A specialist of the Renaissance, Reformation, Italy and Behaviorist History, Trexler had over fifty published works. He was best known for revolutionizing the field of public life as...
- Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas. - Walvin, James - Atlas of Slavery.
- White, Rodney R. - North, South, and the Environmental Crisis.
- Whitehead, Laurence - The International Dimensions of Democratization: Europe and the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Wood, Adrian - North-South Trade: Employment and Inequality. New York: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1994.
- Wright, Neil L, and Robin Whitehead, eds. - In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia.