Patricia Woodard had always wanted to live and work in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then in the summer of 1975 while she was teaching summer school in her hometown of Whiteville, North Carolina, she received a telegram offering her a teaching position in Bogot, Colombia. Excited and stunned to finally be realizing her dream, she accepted the offer and set off for a year high on a plateau in the Andes Mountains. Several years...

La narradora chilena Alejandra Costamagna viaja a Bogotá convocada por un encuentro de escritura in situ. En diez días registra las frecuencias del habla, los lenguajes impredecibles del cielo, las narrativas del horror, la violencia que colinda con el goce y la rumba. El escritor venezolano Slavko Zupcic recorre Bogotá muchos años antes, por medio del castellano dulce de sus amigos colombianos migrantes, sin nunca visitarla. La imaginó como...

A ride from the Alto Plano of Bolivia and Peru to the frozen tip of Patagonia; on the world's most dangerous road, where the stakes are high, on to Argentina's fabled Ruta 40, where the steaks are large and cheap. Across salt pans, into mud holes, up the Andes and down again; past the ruins of the ruins of Macchu Pichu, and on the edge of the epicentre of the Chilean earthquake. Through a land of contrasts - mountains and lowlands, deserts and glaciers,...

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great...

Immense, intense and dramatic, Argentina is a land of contrasts. From sophisticated Buenos Aires, home to grand baroque buildings and the mysteries of the tango, to the lush, jungled Iguazu Falls, down to the incredible frozen landscapes of Patagonia, Footprint's Argentina Handbook will ensure you discover the best of this incredible and varied country.• Great coverage of sights and activities, from the plazas and vineyards of Mendoza to wild and...

Rio de Janeiro is currently the hottest of all the world's pleasure capitals. In the run-up to 2016's summer Olympics, millions of people will seize the chance to enjoy the great Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, the countless nightclubs where patrons join in a frenzy of Brazilian dances and samba, the restaurants where "churrascaria" serves you 12 new types of meat (in one meal), and to do all this prior to the time when an avalanche of Olympics visitors...

La Boca se ha convertido en una metáfora universal de las migraciones humanas. El escritor español Jorge Carrión pasó varias temporadas en un conventillo de uno de los barrios más pobres de Buenos Aires. Conoció a fondo tanto su historia como su vida cotidiana, entrevistó a algunos de sus habitantes más emblemáticos, paseó incansablemente por las orillas del Riachuelo, siguió de cerca la producción teatral del Galpón de Catalinas, memorizó...

Beautiful, vibrant, exuberant and welcoming, Brazil is truly a country to explore. From the miles of pristine and often deserted beaches along the coast to the mighty virgin forest of the Amazon, from the charm of cobbled colonial towns to the urban excitement of its busy metropolises, this guidebook will help you make the most of your visit to this magnificent country. * Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the country, including carnivals,...

She checked Buenos Aires off her bucket list, so why does she keep going back? On her own for six years after the death of her beloved husband, Helen Wilkie fulfills a long held dream to visit Buenos Aires, Argentina. Little does she know that in that short vacation the city will burrow its way into her heart so that she has to keep going back again and again! In this lighthearted, humorous memoir, she shares quirky, fun stories ranging from negotiating...