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Illustrated Gift Books  Textiles from the Andes
Penelope Dransart and Helen Wolfe
Intricate patterns and vibrant colors in textiles of the Andes from Colombia to Chile In the world of the ancient Andes, textiles were often the most valuable commodity people possessed—far beyond gold and silver—and they were...
$20.00
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 The Barbadian Rum Shop
The Other Watering Hole
Peter Laurie
The Barbadian Rum Shop has a dual purpose: to document these special watering holes in photographs and to provide a historical and cultural background to a unique Barbadian institution. It should also encourage Barbadians and visitors alike...
$29.95
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 The Cayman Islands (2nd. ed.)
Jenny Palmer
First sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1503, it would be a difficult task to depict the history of these islands in one book but Jenny Palmer’s camera has captured the flavor of the lives of these peaceful and friendly people in an unaffected...
$40.00
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 Trinidad and Tobago
A Portrait
Jeremy Taylor; photography by Alex Smailes
This captivating photographic narrative is structured along four major themes of the islands' existence: the colorful and heady annual celebration of the carnival; the people and their forging of new identities with which to meet present and futu...
$40.00
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 Urban Vodou
Politics and Popular Street Art in Haiti
photographs by Pablo Butcher; introduction by Carl-Hermann Middelanis
From 1986 to 1994 the Caribbean nation of Haiti experienced a series of dramatic events: the overthrow of "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the violent disruption of voting, the overwhelming electoral victory of Jean-Bertran Aristide, a coup d'etat...
$22.95
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Interlink Illustrated Histories  Castro and Cuba
Angelo Trento; translated by Arthur Figliola
On January 1, 1959, Castro's followers entered Havana. The guerrillas took power and the "socialism of the tropics" began. Today, although the Castro regime has introduced some openings to a market economy, the island continues to wage...
$15.00
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International Folk Tales Series  Fish Prince and Other Stories, The
Mermen Folk Tales
Jane Yolen and Shulamith Oppenheim
Mermen? Yes. Long before mermaids emerged to people our inner seas, long before they established their restless, inviting niche in human fantasy, there was the merman. Born of the human need to dominate the great fruitful oceans, to control the vast...
$15.00
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Lost & Found: Classic Travel Writing  Two Years in the French West Indies
Lafcadio Hearn; edited by introduced by Raphakl Confiant
"And day by day the artlessness of this exotic humanity touches you more; - day by day this savage, somnolent, splendid Nature - delighting in furious color - bewitches you more."
In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadi...
$16.00
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Music  Bob Marley
A Life
Garry Steckles
"Of all the millions of words written about the Jamaican Rasta reggae hero, this book encapsulates the most concise and complete information about Marley... If you want to place a Marley biography in your library, this is the one to buy.&quo...
$17.00
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 Jimmy Cliff
An Unauthorized Biography
David Katz
A fascinating account of the life and times of Jamaican rock icon One of Jamaica’s most prolific and innovative performers and a recent inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jimmy Cliff has been hailed as the first true supe...
$17.00
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Music  Renegades !
The History of the Renegades Steel Orchestra of Trinidad & Tobago
Kim Johnson; Edited by Helene Bellour and Milla Riggion; Photos by Jeffrey Chock
The steel pan is the great success story of acoustic musical instruments in the twentieth century. It begins just before World War II, when Carnival processions in Trinidad began knocking rhythms on bits of metal, dustbins, pots and pans. Within a de...
$31.00
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Poetry  Ian McDonald
Selected Poems
Ian McDonald; introduction by Edward Baugh
Ian McDonald is South America’s equivalent of Robert Frost; a poet writing in a young country who, with an open heart and in clean, honest language, has set down its characters and events, its landscape, traditions and myths, for future generat...
$12.00
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 Poems by Martin Carter
edited by Ian MacDonald and Stewart Brown
As a young socialist in the colony of British Guiana, Martin Carter wrote strong, vigorous poems that connect powerfully with the reader, that fire the spirit, that are impossible to forget, that live on in the culture of the Caribbean. A committed f...
$9.95
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Rucksack Readers  Explore the Inca Trail
(3rd ed.)
Jacquetta Megarry and Roy Davies
The third edition of our popular guidebook contains everything you need to plan and enjoy hiking a choice of three Inca Trails to Machu Picchu in Peru. It has been revised for 2011 with fresh photographs and updated information. Step-by-step sections...
$17.95
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The Traveller's History Series  A Traveller's History of the Caribbean
(1st edition)
James Ferguson
A concise and authoritative history of the entire region covering the large islands such as Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas to the smaller islands in The Netherlands Antilles, The Islands of...
$14.95
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 A Traveller's History of the Caribbean (2nd ed.)
fully revised and updated
James Ferguson
"Exceptional... Ferguson's in-depth guide to the Caribbean -- from the arrival of its indigenous races to the political climate of the region in its current state -- is a necessity for the tourist whose tastes are broader than pink sa...
$14.95
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Travel Literature  Travels With the Flea
Jim Perrin
In Travels with The Flea, cult mountaineer Jim Perrin turns to travel-writing and moves between Kazakstan and Cuba, Hungary, the Himalaya and the High Arctic. The result is a collection of travel essays that read like Hunter S Thompson meets...
$15.00
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Two Years in the French West Indies
Lafcadio Hearn; edited by introduced by Raphakl Confiant
"And day by day the artlessness of this exotic humanity touches you more; - day by day this savage, somnolent, splendid Nature - delighting in furious color - bewitches you more."
In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadi...
$16.00
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Travellers' Wildlife Guides  Belize and Northern Guatemala (Travellers' Wildlife Guide)
Les Beletsky
Most travellers to Belize and Northern Guatemala want to experience lush tropical forests and other stunning habitats and catch glimpses of exotic wildlife: toucans and parrots, hummingbirds and hawks, monkeys and big cats, frogs and toads, crocodile...
$29.95
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 Brazil (Travellers' Wildlife Guide)
Amazon and Pantanal
David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky
The Brazilian Amazon region holds a very special place in the minds of the world’s nature lovers as a vast wilderness of tropical forest splendor; and southern Brazil’s Pantanal area, an immense wetland, has a well-deserved reputation for...
$29.95
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