south america

Presents the diaries of Albert Granado describing his motorcycle journeys through South American in 1952 with Ernesto Guevara, later to be known as Che Guevara, and includes archival photographs and timeline.

An introduction to South America, including the amazing rivers, waterfalls, and mountain ranges, as well as one of South America's modern marvels.

Included in this volume are essays on Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean region, with concise reports and up-to-date statistics for each of the independent countries within these regions.

Profiles the countries and independencies of South America and Oceania, providing information about the geography, history, and economy of each, as well as a data file, map, flag illustration, and photographs.

Chronicles the life and career of Simon Bolivar, discussing his role in the Spanish-American wars of independence, reputation as a Venezuelan rebel, symbolic influence as a revolutionary, and other related topics.

Baz, a young pickpocket who works alongside her friend, a boy named Demi, in a modern city in Latin America, brings her loot to Fay, who manages the gang of thieves from the slums, and when Demi attracts too much attention by stealing a valuable blue ring, Baz embarks on her own only to find a larger scale of corruption out in the world.

Norma, a radio host for an unnamed South American country ravaged by civil war, reads the names of missing persons to her listeners, and finds her life altered when a boy appears from the jungles with information on Norma's long missing husband.

Presents Charles Darwin's classic in which he argues that species change over time, evolving or dying out entirely, through the process of natural selection; and his journals from his five-year voyage around the world on the "H.M.S. Beagle, " in which he recorded his observations on geology and natural history.

An online trip to various Internet web sites reveals a variety of facts about the continent of South America.