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What to read after The Rivers Amazon by Alex Shoumatoff: 24 titles sharing themes of South America and Latin America, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Race, Place, and Medicine The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Julyan G. Peard

Themes: South America • Latin America

Darien Disaster — John Prebble

Darien Disaster

Themes: South America • Latin America

Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830 — Matthew McCarthy

Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830

Matthew McCarthy

Themes: South America • Latin America

Botha, Smuts and the Great War — Antonio Garcia

Botha, Smuts and the Great War

Themes: South America • Latin America

Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent Abridged Edition — Alexander von Humboldt

Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent Abridged Edition

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Themes: South America • Latin America

In Trouble Again A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon — Redmond O’Hanlon

In Trouble Again A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon — Redmond O’Hanlon

Redmond O'Hanlon

Themes: South America • Latin America

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Themes: South America • Latin America

Historical Statistics of Chile Government Services and Public Sector and a Theory of Services: Volume 6 — Markos Mamalakis

Historical Statistics of Chile Government Services and Public Sector and a Theory of Services: Volume 6

Markos Mamalakis

Themes: South America • Latin America

People and Issues in Latin American History Sources and Interpretations. The colonial experience — Lewis Hanke

People and Issues in Latin American History Sources and Interpretations. The colonial experience

Themes: South America • Latin America

The Cry of the Renegade Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile — Raymond B. Craib

The Cry of the Renegade Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile

Raymond B. Craib

Themes: South America • Latin America

Trail of Feathers In Search of the Birdmen of Peru — Tahir Shah

Trail of Feathers In Search of the Birdmen of Peru

Themes: South America • Latin America

The Last Days of the Incas — Kim MacQuarrie

The Last Days of the Incas

Themes: South America • Latin America

Hugo! The Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution — Bart Jones

Hugo! The Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution

Themes: South America • Latin America

South American Fights and Fighters The Conquistadors and Other Accounts of Adventure — Cyrus Townsend Brady

South American Fights and Fighters The Conquistadors and Other Accounts of Adventure

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Themes: South America • Latin America

One Bright Shining Path Faith in the Midst of Terrorism — W. Terry Whalin

One Bright Shining Path Faith in the Midst of Terrorism — W. Terry Whalin

Themes: South America • Latin America

Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle How Bruce Olson Brought a Stone Age South American Tribe Into the 21st Century — Bruce Olson

Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle How Bruce Olson Brought a Stone Age South American Tribe Into the 21st Century

Themes: South America • Latin America

Diamond Doris The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief — Doris Payne

Diamond Doris The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief

Themes: South America • Latin America

Dragon in the Tropics Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez — Javier Corrales

Dragon in the Tropics Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez

Javier Corrales

Themes: South America • Latin America

Wild Coast Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge — John Gimlette

Wild Coast Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge

Themes: South America • Latin America

Unveiling Pachacamac New Hypotheses for an Old Andean Sanctuary — Giancarlo Marcone Flores

Unveiling Pachacamac New Hypotheses for an Old Andean Sanctuary

Giancarlo Marcone Flores

Themes: South America • Latin America

Diarios de Motocicleta Notas de viaje por América Latina — Ernesto Che Guevara

Diarios de Motocicleta Notas de viaje por América Latina

Ernesto Che Guevara

Themes: South America • Latin America

Latin America Since the Left Turn — Tulia G. Falleti

Latin America Since the Left Turn

Tulia G. Falleti

Themes: South America • Latin America

Chile First Edition — Jane Kohen Winter

Chile First Edition

Jane Kohen Winter

Themes: South America • Latin America

Heading South, Looking North A Bilingual Journey — Ariel Dorfman

Heading South, Looking North A Bilingual Journey

Themes: South America • Latin America

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