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Ship, The Lady and the Lake

By Larken Meriel

The Bolivian Diary: The Authorised Edition

By Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far

By Richard Bourne

Eva Peron

By Alicia Dujovne Ortiz

The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

By Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Cambridge)

Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle

By Richard Keynes

H is for Hawk

By Macdonald, Helen

The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire

By Andrew Wheatcroft

Adventures of a Young Naturalist: SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS

By Attenborough, Sir David

Aristide Factor

By Leslie Griffiths

The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb

By James Kunetka

Colombia Es Pasion!: The Generation of Racing Cyclists Who Changed Their Nation and the Tour de France

By Matt Rendell

Los Intelectuales del Partido Comunista: Itinerario de Hector Agosti (1930-1963)

By Laura Prado Acosta

Fear is Just a Word

By Azam Ahmed

The Game of Their Lives

By Geoffrey Douglas

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

By Jeremy Narby

The Heart of the World

By Alan Ereira

No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes

By Barbara Bode

Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World's Greatest Survival Story

By Pablo Vierci, Jennie Erikson

Bolivian Diary of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

By Che Guevara, C.P. Hansen, A. Sinclair

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

By Greg Grandin

My Invented Country: A Memoir

By Allende, Isabel, Sayers Peden, Margaret

The Conquest of New Spain

By Bernal Diaz del Castillo, John Cohen

Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson

By Jon Lee Anderson

You Got Nothing Coming

By Jimmy Lerner

Naturalist on the River Amazons

By Henry Walter Bates

Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember

By Anna Horsbrugh-Porter

Son of Escobar: First Born

By Roberto Sendoya Escobar

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

By Mark Bowden