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  • Forty Days in the Jungle

    Behind the Extraordinary Survival and Rescue of Four Children Lost in the Amazon

    by Mat Youkee ...
    AN EXTRAORDINARY, GRIPPING SURVIVAL STORY THAT REVEALS THE STRUGGLES AND RESILIENCE OF THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.In June 2023, four Indigenous children were found alive in the Colombian Amazon, forty days after the light aircraft they had been travelling in crashed into deep jungle, killing the three adults on board. For weeks the Colombian public had been transfixed by clues of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

    by Mark Adams ...
    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIRWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?**In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Sound of Things Falling

    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Alfaguara PrizeWinner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize'A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn't choose to fight' The Times***'***The story is compelling but through Vásquez's vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting ... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Society of the Snow

    The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story

    by Pablo Vierci ...
    Translated by Jennie Erikson ...
    It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into two, its floor torn to smithereens; seats flew out of the air taking passengers with them. In the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • On The Plain Of Snakes

    A Mexican Journey

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set ... Read more

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  • Magdalena

    River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia

    by Wade Davis ...
    A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, bestselling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade-- that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and futureTravelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis ... Read more

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  • 33 Men

    Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners

    by Jonathan Franklin ...
    Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010.A resident of Chile since 1994, award-winning investigative reporter Jonathan Franklin gained access to the miners, their families, rescuers, and government officials that other journalists could only dream of. He developed such a ... Read more

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  • Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman - Biography of a Billionaire Fugitive

    by James Bush ...
    The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "the world's most powerful drug trafficker."Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has appeared on Forbes list of the world's richest people, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.While, El Chapo has a $7 million dollar bounty on his head after a prison escape in 2001, he's received a number of accolades. His story is compelling ... Read more

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  • I Had to Survive

    How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives

    by Dr. Roberto Canessa, Pablo Vierci ...
    Dr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists, seeing in his patients the same fierce will to live he witnessed in the Andes.As he tended to his wounded Old Christians teammates amidst ... Read more

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  • When We Sold God's Eye

    Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon

    by Alex Cuadros ...
    A CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS NONFICTION FINALISTThe "gripping and astonishing story" (Douglas Preston) of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illegal diamond mine in the Amazon.Growing up in a remote corner of the world’s largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, and gathered Brazil nuts and açaí berries ... Read more

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  • The Devil's Curve

    A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon's Edge

    by Arno Kopecky ...
    In June 2009, 60 soldiers slipped into the bush above Devil's Curve, a notorious bend in the two-lane highway connecting Peru's northern Amazon to the outside world. The soldiers had orders to dislodge the 3,000 Awajun natives who had been camped there for the past 57 days. The subsequent clash was deadly.At issue was the lease of three-quarters of the jungle to foreign oil and mining interests ... Read more

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  • Buried Alive

    The True Story of the Chilean Mining Disaster and the Extraordinary Rescue at Camp Hope

    by Manuel Pino Toro ...
    The inside story of the thirty-three Chilean miners trapped 2,300 feet underground that captivated the worldOn August 5, 2010, a tunnel in the gold and copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed, with all of its miners trapped underground. For days, the families waited breathlessly as percussion drills searched out signs of life. Finally, a note came back from below--the miners were ... Read more

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