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There are 17 books in this catalogue.
Land of Tempest: Travels in Patagonia 1958-62.
Shipton, Eric
Book Number: 67605
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Travel Book Club, London 1963.
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. index, b/w maps. Very good. / Good d/w with some small tears.

Price: $15.00


Coricancha ( Garden of Gold ) Being an Account of the Conquest of the Inca Empire
Tschiffely, A. F.
Book Number: 67229
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, London, 1943
8vo. hardcover. 220pp. index, b/w folding map. Good, cover edges and spine faded, owner's details onfep., outer edge of text-block browned. / Fair, chipped & torn d/w.

Price: $18.00


Tierra del Fuego: the Fatal Lodestone
Shipton, Eric
Book Number: 64645
ISBN: 
Publisher: Readers Union, Newton Abbot, 1974.
8vo. hardcover. 175pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, small bump to top cover corner, small pen mark on fep, previous owner has tipped-in maps on endpapers and pastedowns. / Very good d/w.

Price: $15.00


Henry Walter Bates, Naturalist of the Amazons
Woodcock, George
Book Number: 64638
ISBN: 0571088007
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London, 1969.
8vo. hardcover. 269pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $18.00


Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
Ali, Tariq
Book Number: 62744
ISBN: 184467102X
Publisher: Verso, Sydney, 2006.
8vo. hardcover. 244pp. index. Near Fine inscribed & signed by author on title page, light foxing to outer top page edges. / Near Fine d/w.

Price: $12.00


SAVAGE. The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
HAZLEWOOD, Nick
Book Number: 45793
ISBN: 0340739118
Publisher: Hodder And Stoughton 2000
8vo hardcover 384pp index, b/w illus. very good, remainder mark on top edge. / very good d/w.

Price: $12.00


Faces and Masks. Volume 2 of Memory of Fire Trilogy
Galeano, Eduardo
Book Number: 60042
ISBN: 0393318060
Publisher: Norton, New York, 1988.
8vo. softcover. 290pp. index. Very good+.

Price: $15.00


The Rainstick Pack : Explore the Mysteries and Traditions of Native Chilean Culture
Caistor, Nick
Book Number: 54336
ISBN: 0789300923
Publisher: Universe Publishing, New York 1997
8vo. hardcover. 96pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine. / Fine d/w.

Price: $15.00


The Latin Americans
Alba, Victor
Book Number: 4909
ISBN: 
Publisher: NY: Praeger, 1969. First edition.
large 8vo. Cloth hardcover. 392pp. Index. Very good, minor wear to corners. / good chipped d/w.

Price: $12.00


Conquistadors
Wood, Michael
Book Number: 44865
ISBN: 0563487062
Publisher: BBC Books, London, 2003
Small 4to. softcover. 288pp. index, colour illus. Very good, bottom corner slightly bumped.

Price: $18.00


In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama, 1968-1990
Koster, R. M.
Book Number: 41176
ISBN: 0393026965
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc 1990
8vo hardcover 430pp index. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $30.00


A Little Piece of England. My adventures of chief executive of the Falkland Islands
Gurr, Andrew
Book Number: 36154
ISBN: 1903402379
Publisher: Blake 2001
8vo hardcover 290pp, b/w illus. very good missing front endpaper. / very good+ d/w. This text is a memoir of an opportunity that is only ever given to a carefully selected few. Andrew got to know the people, the wildlife, the landscape of this beautiful island, and he writes movingly and humorously about his experiences.

Price: $15.00


The Conquest of Chile
Pocock, H.R.S.
Book Number: 34268
ISBN: 
Publisher: New York: Stein and Day, 1967.
8vo hardcover 256pp index. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $25.00


Red Gold The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians, 1500-1760.
Hemming, John
Book Number: 23802
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Papermac 1987
8vo. softcover. 527pp. + index + b/w plates. very good.

Price: $15.00


Amazon Frontier. The Defeat Of The Brazilian Indians
Hemming, John
Book Number: 41404
ISBN: 0333423194
Publisher: Macmillan 1987
8vo hardcover 647pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $15.00


The River Congo: The Discovery,Exploration and Exploitation of the World's Most Dramatic Rivers
Forbath, Peter
Book Number: 41174
ISBN: 0061224901
Publisher: Harper & Row 1977
8vo hardcover 404pp index, b/w illus. very good / good d/w with large tear on rear panel (repaired).

Price: $12.00


Pueblos Gods & Spaniards
Terrell, John Upton
Book Number: 60647
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Dial Press 1973
8vo. Hardcover in d/w. 358pp. Near fine. This is the first book on the Pueblo Indians intended for the general reader, It recreates the tribes as they existed when first encountered by explorers and tells the story of their earliest conquerors, the Spanish.

Price: $30.00