Reading list for South America
Here’s the most popular titles of books I noticed guests reading in preparation for or about South America:
Panama Canal
Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
Colombia
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Gracia Marquez
Love in the Days of Cholera by Gabriel Gracia Marquez
Ecuador
The Panama Hat Trail by Tom Miller
The Ecuador Effect by David E. Stuart
Peru
Cradle of God: The Story of Hiram Bingham by Christopher Heaney
The Last days of the Inca by Kim MacQuarrie
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Lllosa
Chile
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Poems of Gabriela Mistral
The Essential Neruda (Pablo Neruda)
Argentina
Tango: An Argentine Love Story by Camille Cusumano
The Old Patagonia Express by Paul Theroux
Falkland Islands
The Battle of The Falklands by Mark Hastings and Simon Jenkins
Guide to Birds of the Falkland Islands by Robin W. Woods
Brazil
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
The Amazon
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Black Orchid by Nicholas Meyer
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Fordlandia by Greg Grandin
General
1491 by Charles Mann
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Over the Edge of the World:
Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen