South America

The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived....

The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon....

Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land....

The definitive English-language biography of Simón Bolívar, the, "George Washington of South America," who remains strangely unknown in the United States....

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes....

In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California.

As Russian forces closed in on Berlin and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goñi unravels the complex network that led them to Argentina....

Robert Drysdale explores the history of jiu-jitsu by concentrating on the major events and characters that were responsible for turning BJJ into a global phenomenon....

A Brazilian journalist’s investigation unearths the story of a network of people responsible for hiding The Angel of Death, the infamous Nazi doctor who fled to South America and escaped justice for over thirty years.

The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist....

A gripping, darkly comic memoir of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile....

The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived....

Convertido en emperador de Brasil a los veintitrés años, Pedro I marcó con su huella la historia de dos continentes....

A revealing memoir of Colombian television journalist Virginia Vallejo's affair with the "King of Cocaine", notorious Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar....

Com linguagem fluente, acesso a documentação inédita e profundo rigor na pesquisa, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz e Heloisa Murgel Starling traçam um retrato de corpo inteiro do país, e mostram que o Brasil bem merecia uma nova história. Edição com novo pós-escrito das autoras....

Che's definitive account of the Cuban revolutionary war....

Wizard of the Upper Amazon is an extraordinary document of the life among a tribe of South American Indians at the beginning of the 20th century....

Uncover the history of Chile, the South American country with a rich and tumultuous history. From the Atacama desert, the driest desert in the world, to the Andes mountain range, Chile is a country with incredible geography and an even more fascinating history....

El 11 de septiembre de 1973 fue consumado en Chile un golpe de estado que daría inicio a uno de los episodios más oscuros de la historia de esa nación sudamericana....

In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo....

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies is the story of the Spanish Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas, who came to the Americas in the 16th century. Immediately he was struck by the inhumane ways in which the native peoples were treated by the Europeans....

Embarque nas naus e caravelas da vasta frota comandada por Pedro Álvares Cabral. Circule por entre marujos lusitanos, pilotos árabes, astrólogos judeus...

Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana. A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era...

Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors....

Having had unparalleled access to the Chilean mine disaster, award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of a remarkable story....