Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most ...
 pretty decent read: This was a pretty decent read -- we practice a lot of these at my workplace but I think what this book really shows is the attitude of an entrepreneur. One of the best business books ever: I think this book gives In Search of [... more]
$14.99
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Brazil in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)
This book is for children.: Apparently this book is for ages 9 - 12. That apparently is correct. Don't buy for an adult. Author: Thomas Streissguth Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 981 EAN: 9780822519591 Edition: Rev Exp ISBN: 0822519593 Number [... more]
$30.60
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The Rough Guide Brazil 5 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Incomplete at best: Just to be upfront about everything, this review is based on the 3rd edition of this book. But based on that book, I won't buy this one. Here's just 2 reasons why: 1) The basic introductions to the each area/city are a great idea, but [... more]
$24.95
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Tristes Tropiques
Amazon.com Review: "I hate travelling and explorers," famously declared Claude Lévi-Strauss, but how fortunate for readers that he should overcome his loathing to write about his experiences among the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian [... more]
$20.00
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Brazil: The Once and Future Country
Amazon.com Review: Vanderbilt University historian Marshall C. Eakin provides an authoritative survey of Latin America's largest country. His broad and insightful overview reveals Brazil's many facets, including its racial melting pot (which often [... more]
$19.95
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Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Remarkable Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt was a man's man. A New York kid whose taste for adventure was sparked in his boyhood by a dead seal for sale on a Broadway sidewalk. Harvard student, soldier, Rough Rider, youngest President ever and one who [... more]
$19.95
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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Lewis & Clark go down the Amazon...: ... but told in a much more stylish and readable manner. I bought this book on the strength of reading about Capt. Herndon's sacrifice in Gary Kinder's "Ship of Gold...". He seemed to epitomise the old- [... more]
$14.00
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Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
Amazon.com Review: While novelist Ian Fleming is best known for bringing adventurer James Bond to life, his writer brother Peter Fleming, a reporter for The Times of London, survived South American misadventures so challenging they make 007's high-risk [... more]
$16.95
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My Last Chance to Be a Boy: Theodore Roosevelt's South ...
Brilliant portrayal of TR as man, not legend.: TR's 1913-1914 expedition down the River of Doubt (subsequently renamed Rio Teodoro in his honor, and later Rio Roosevelt) is an astonishing piece of history - one often refered to in passing by other TR [... more]
$29.95
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Curitiba: Capital ecologica =the ecological capital
Binding: Unknown Binding EAN: 9788585348038 ISBN: 8585348038 Number Of Pages: 132 Publication Date: 1991 [... more]
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Explorers of the Amazon
A fascinating romp across South America: I have read and re-read this wonderful account of the history of Amazonian exploration since the hardcover edition first came out in 1990. Anthony Smith, an inveterate science writer, writes with warmth and humor [... more]
$21.95
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Rio de Janeiro (Writer and the City)
An inspired view of the carioca soul: As a lover of Rio de Janeiro (like every carioca), I was amazed by Ruy Castro's inspired view of Rio. He manages to make this book as interesting for someone looking just for a travel guide as for the most serious [... more]
$16.95
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