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10 books

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

In the Amazon rainforest, missionaries, outsiders and an Indigenous community become entangled in a struggle over belief, power and survival.

Literary fiction

Gracias! A Latin American Journal

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Bolivian and Peruvian encounters lead Nouwen to reconsider faith and vocation.

Memoir

Keep the River on Your Right

Tobias Schneebaum

In 1955, armed with a penknife and the instructions “Keep the river on your right,” the Brooklyn-born painter Tobias Schneebaum set off into the trackless jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals.

Travel memoir

Kon-Tiki

Thor Heyerdahl

Push away from the coast of Peru on a balsa-wood raft and let the Pacific decide what happens next.

Travel memoir

Lost City of the Incas

Hiram Bingham

Exploration around Cusco, the Urubamba Valley, mountain trails and Machu Picchu.

Travelogue

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

Galeano follows commodities across five centuries, offering a passionate political interpretation of how Latin America's riches were extracted and carried elsewhere.

History