SUGGESTED READING

SOUTH AMERICA We are pleased to bring you reading materials to support your onboard experience and complement your moments ashore. The Smithsonian Collection by Smithsonian Journeys is an engaging enrichment program led by a wide range of experts who are eager to share their first-hand knowledge and expertise. As part of the program, Smithsonian Journeys and our Smithsonian Journeys Experts are pleased to share the below reading lists.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION These 4 items are available as a set for $71 including shipping, 15% Pamela Constable. A Nation of Enemies, Under Pinochet. off the retail price (Item EXSAM289). Any additional books ordered W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. The definitive history on Chile will be shipped free of charge.See page 4 for ordering details. under Pinochet, Constable’s history tells how South America’s most stable democracy became more fearful and politically divided. Third edition. (PAPER, 368 Pp., $17.95, Item CHI100) Enrique Krauze. Redeemers, Ideas and Power in Latin America. HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. Jose Marti, Octavio Paz, Eva Peron, Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez all get a John Hemming. Conquest of the Incas. Harvest Books, chapter in this illuminating history of political thought in 1970. This classic prizewinning history of the Inca struggle modern Latin America. 12 thinkers in all. (PAPER, 538 Pp., against the Spanish invasion weaves wide-ranging, scholarly $19.99, Item SAM188) material into a gripping narrative. (PAPER, 641 Pp., $25.99, Item AND04) Peter Matthiessen. Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness. Penguin Putnam, 1987. Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Michael Wood. Conquistadors. University of California Press, Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del 2002. A lively, illustrated account of the Spanish conquest of Fuego. (PAPER, 280 Pp., $17.00, Item SAM02) the New World by the intrepid writer-filmmaker Michael Wood. (PAPER, 288 Pp., $34.95, Item SAM48)

Insight Guides. Insight Guide South America. Insight Guides, 2013. This profusely illustrated, comprehensive guide features hundreds of color photographs, excellent maps and Hector Tobar. Deep Down Dark. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, insightful essays on history, art, architecture and attractions. 2015. Journalist Tobar brings to light the stories of the 33 (PAPER, 424 Pp., $24.99, Item SAM24) men who were trapped for 69 days in the San Jose Mine outside of Copiapo, Chile in 2010 through this spirited survival tale that ultimately probes the soul of Chile itself. ITMB. South America Map. ITMB, 2010. A colorful fold-up, (PAPER, 336 Pp., $16.00, Item CHI97) double-sided map of the entire continent at a scale of 1:4,000,000. (MAP, Pp., $13.95, Item SAM13) Michael Reid. Forgotten Continent. Yale University Press, 2009. Economist editor Reid draws on his years in the cities, presidential palaces and shantytowns of Central and South America in this portrait of a region rich in oil, farmland and culture, with consideration on its prospects in the face of globalization. (PAPER, 400 Pp., $26.00, Item SAM123)

Alma Guillermoprieto. Looking For History, Dispatches From MAPS & GUIDEBOOKS Latin America. Vintage Books, 2002. A beautifully written, incisive collection of essays on contemporary , Lonely Planet Publications. Lonely Planet Latin American Colombia, Cuba, Peru and . (PAPER, 303 Pp., $16.95, Spanish Phrasebook. Lonely Planet Publications, 2015. Item SAM60) A handy Spanish phrasebook, with a short two-way dictionary. (PAPER, 272 Pp., $9.99, Item SAM127)

SOUTH AMERICA 1 HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Continued Redmond O’Hanlon. In Trouble Again. Vintage Books, Chris Moss. Patagonia, A Cultural History. Oxford University 1990. As funny as he is insightful, O’Hanlon starts his comic Press, 2008. A journalist with the Buenos Aires Herald, Moss masterpiece of a journey between the Orinoco and the follows a colorful cast of characters -- from Magellan and Amazon with a litany of the insects, protozoa, snakes and Darwin to mad kings, gauchos, and Nazi fugitives -- in this predators that can do you harm. (PAPER, 272 Pp., $16.00, vivid overview of the culture and history of Patagonia. Item AMZ04) (HARD COVER, 328 Pp., $28.95, Item PAT81) H.M. Tomlinson. The Sea and the Jungle. Northwestern University Press, 1995. First published in 1912, this is a Matthew Restall. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford thoroughly unromanticized, absorbing account of a University Press, 2004. In this provocative book, Restall tackles 2,000-mile journey by steamship deep into the Amazon. Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro and the misconceptions surrounding Understated and often hilarious. (PAPER, 258 Pp., $19.95, them. The conquisadores most certainly did not conquer the Item AMZ10) Americas with a handful of men, nor were they received as gods. (PAPER, 272 Pp., $19.99, Item SAM52) Charles Darwin. Voyage of the Beagle. Modern Library, Robert Farris Thompson. Tango, The Art History of Love. 2002. The wide-eyed tale of a young man on a five-year Vintage Books, 2006. A probing cultural history of the voyage that changed his life -- and our way of thinking tango, its working class origins in 19thcentury Buenos Aires about the world. First published in 1839, it’s still a marvelous and Afro-Argentine roots. (PAPER, 384 Pp., $17.00, introduction to the wildlife, nature and allure of South Item ARG56) America. (PAPER, 468 Pp., $12.95, Item GPS02)

Rockwell Kent. Voyaging, Southward from the Strait of Jason Wilson. The Andes. Oxford University Press, 2009. Magellan. Wesleyan University Press, 2000. An illustrated Starting out in Cuzco, heart of the Inca Empire, Wilson account of Rockwell’s foolhardy voyage with a madman spreads north and south along the Andes, including through magnificent Tierra del Fuego in a jury-rigged excerpts from South American literary giants, travelers and lifeboat. Both the text and striking woodcut illustrations his own impressions. (PAPER, 266 Pp., $17.95, Item AND74) communicate this dangerous landscape’s dynamic character. (PAPER, 208 Pp., $19.95, Item CHI29)

Ramiro Matos. The Great Inka Road, Engineering an Empire. Eric Simons. Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure and Smithsonian Institution Press, 2015. An astute collection Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin’s South America. of essays on the “Qhapaq Nan” (the Great Inca Road), Overlook Press, 2010. Simons captures the exuberance covering its engineering, practical uses and the great and wide-eyed wonder of Darwin’s adventures in South civilization that built it. Includes more than 225 full-color America in this refreshingly irreverent account. (PAPER, illustrations. (HARD COVER, 240 Pp., $40.00, Item SAM205) 304 Pp., $14.95, Item SAF233)

Nicolas Shumway. The Invention of Argentina. University of Ariel Dorfman. Desert Memories, Journeys Through the California Press, 1993. An illuminating intellectual history of Chilean North. National Geographic, 2003. A quest for Argentina, this book brings the founding fathers of the republic national history, personal memories and family origins in the to life, deftly portraying the revolution against in 1810 and Atacama by the noted playwright, novelist and essayist. The its immediate aftermath. (PAPER, 352 Pp., $33.95, Item ARG08) legacy of mining, Pinochet and the author’s own history are woven into this meditative account. (HARD COVER, 304 Pp., $21.00, Item CHI53)

James Taylor. The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin’s Extraordinary Adventure Aboard Fitzroy’s Famous Survey Nicholas Fraser. Evita, The Real Life of Eva Peron. W. W. Norton & Ship. Sterling Publishing Company, 2016. The perfect Company, 1996. Separating fact from myth, Fraser traces Evita’s life supplement for lovers of Darwin’s classic account (GPS02), from her humble origins to her place as a revered cult figure, also this history mixes antique and new illustrations, letters, exploring Peronism and Argentine politics of the 1930s and 1940s. diary entries, official narratives and charts produced by (PAPER, 222 Pp., $15.95, Item ARG03) shipboard artists. (PAPER, 192 Pp., $30.00, Item GPS124)

Bruce Chatwin. In Patagonia. Penguin, 1989. A masterpiece of travel, history and adventure, this award-winning book captures the spirit of the land, history, wildlife and people of Patagonia. There’s no travel writer as engaging, insightful and just plain wonderful as Bruce Chatwin. (PAPER, 204 Pp., $17.00, Item PAT01)

SOUTH AMERICA 2 TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR LITERATURE Continued Continued

Heraldo Munoz. The Dictator’s Shadow, Life Under Augusto Isabel Allende. Ines of My Soul. HarperCollins Publishers, Pinochet. Perseus, 2008. A gripping memoir of life in Chile 2007. Allende turns the amazing life of Spanish under Pinochet, the horrors perpetrated by his regime, his conquistadora and founder of Santiago, Ines Suarez complex character and what it took to overthrow him by (1507-1580), into a gripping novel. (PAPER, 321 Pp., Chile’s current ambassador to the United Nations. (HARD $14.99, Item CHI73) COVER, 345 Pp., $35.00, Item CHI79)

Paul Theroux. The Old Patagonian Express. Mariner Books, . Intimacies, Poems of Love. HarperCollins, 1997. Combining history, anecdote and acutely observed 2008. This volume of selected love poetry by Chilean writer detail on people and place, Theroux begins his journey on Pablo Neruda evokes the intimate way the Nobel Laureate a Boston subway car and works his way south via rail, plane approached the world. This deluxe edition features and truck to the Patagonian railroad in this enthralling translations from acclaimed poet Alastair Reid and narrative. (PAPER, 404 Pp., $16.95, Item PAT08) paintings by California artist Mary Heebner. (HARD COVER, 82 Pp., $27.95, Item CHI99) Alberto Granado, Lucia Alvarez de Toledo (Translator). Traveling with Che Guevara, The Making of a Revolutionary. Roberto Bolano, Chris Andrews (Translator). Last Evenings W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Granado’s classic account on Earth. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2007. of his travels with Che Guevara via motorbike through Striking stories of young men adrift in an inhospitable Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. (PAPER, Latin America, written by a man who was himself intimate 240 Pp., $15.99, Item SAM68) with exile. (PAPER, 256 Pp., $15.95, Item CHI72)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator). Love in the Time of Cholera. Vintage Books, 2007. A LITERATURE glorious tale of great love consummated after fifty years, nine months and four days, memorably set in a dusty Katherine Silver (Editor). Chile, A Traveler’s Literary Companion. 19thcentury town on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Whereabouts Press, 2003. These choice stories introduce both (PAPER, 348 Pp., $16.00, Item SAM26) the country and a host of contemporary writers. (PAPER, 256 Pp., $14.95, Item CHI38) Patricio Pron. My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain. Alfred Knopf, 2014. The American debut of one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Jose Donoso. Curfew. Grove Press, 1993. Set in bellavista just Argentine family--a story of fathers and sons, corruption after the death of Pablo Neruda’s widow, this novel evokes the and responsibility, memory and history, with a mystery at atmosphere of Santiago under Pinochet. (PAPER, 320 its heart. (PAPER, 212 Pp., $15.95, Item ARG128) Pp., $14.00, Item CHI21)

Antoine de Saint Exupery. Night Flight. Harcourt Books, 1986. Saint Exupery captures the thrill and mystery of early flight in this tale of a pilot alone in a storm over the Andes en route to Buenos Pablo Neruda. Extravagaria. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. A Aires. (PAPER, 87 Pp., $12.95, Item PAT09) collection of 68 lyric poems reflecting on landscape and home, penned by the poet on the Isla Negra on the Pacific coast of Chile after a period of extensive wandering. (PAPER, 304 Pp., $16.00, Item CHI91) Nathaniel Tarn (Editor). Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. A comprehensive anthology of Neruda’s poetry edited by Nathaniel Tarn. Pablo Neruda. Five Decades, Poems 1925-1970. Grove Each poem is presented in both English and the original Press, 1974. A bilingual edition of 138 poems by the great Spanish. (PAPER, 508 Pp., $17.95, Item CHI19) Pablo Neruda, drawn from his entire career. Neruda is the quintessential South American poet: lyrical, engaging and bristling with life. (PAPER, 464 Pp., $15.00, Item CHI10) Tomas Eloy Martinez, Helen Lane (Translator). Santa Evita. Vintage Books, 1997. This riveting tale of the life -- and afterlife -- of Eva Duarte springs from actual events in Lawrence Thornton. Imagining Argentina. Bantam Argentina in the 1950s, including the peregrinations of a Doubleday, 2003. A brilliant first novel that captures the perfectly preserved corpse. (PAPER, 371 Pp., $16.00, Item hope and spirit of Argentina during the military rule of the ARG22) late 1970s. This inventive tale focuses on Carlos Rueda and a group of citizens whose relatives disappeared. (PAPER, 240 Pp., $15.00, Item ARG01) SOUTH AMERICA 3 LITERATURE NATURAL HISTORY & FIELD GUIDES Continued Michael Goulding, Ronaldo Barthem, Efrem Ferreira. The Graciela Montaldo (Editor), Gabriela Nouzeilles (Editor). The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon. Smithsonian Institution Argentina Reader, History, Culture, Politics. Duke, 2003. A Press, 2003. This beautiful, profusely illustrated atlas of lively, literate sourcebook with selections ranging from historical the river includes its major tributaries and 150 full-color accounts to newspaper articles, essays, poems and comic maps. Goulding (Floods of Fortune) and Brazilian biologists strips. Includes photographs of art and architecture, maps and Barthem and Ferreira provide the accompanying text. classic and contemporary texts, most of them by Argentineans. (HARD COVER, 254 Pp., $39.95, Item AMZ82) (PAPER, 580 Pp., $27.95, Item ARG114) Adrian Forsyth, Ken Miyata. Tropical Nature. Scribner, 1984. Patrick O’Brian. The Far Side of the World. W. W. Norton & Two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists Company, 1992. O’Brian takes readers on an adventure around offer a lucid portrait of the tropics through 17 marvelous Cape Horn in this enthralling Aubrey and Maturin tale, featuring essays that introduce the habitats, ecology, plants and evocative descriptions of the wildlife of Patagonia and Galapagos animals of the Central and South American rainforests. and a vivid portrait of Nelson’s British Navy. (PAPER, 366 Pp., (PAPER, 248 Pp., $16.00, Item GPS13) $15.95, Item SAM01) Sharon Chester. A Wildlife Guide to Chile. Princeton Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin (Translator). The House of the University Press, 2008. Chester’s splendid guide, featuring Spirits. Dial Press, 1993. A remarkably imagined tale of four 120 color plates, covers the wildlife, plants and natural history generations, much in the spirit of Marquez’s One Hundred of Chile from the Atacama Desert and Patagonia to Easter Years of Solitude, centered on a land-owning tyrant, and Island and Antarctica. (PAPER, 392 Pp., $19.95, Item CHI77) his wife, daughter and grandchild. (PAPER, 433 Pp., $16.00, Item CHI02) Martin D. la Pena, Maurice Rumboll. Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica. Princeton University Press, 2001. With color plates, range maps and brief descriptions, this is a compact regional guide. (PAPER, 224 Pp., $29.95, Item SAM12)

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