South America is epic. Home to the world’s highest waterfall, the longest mountain range and the largest rainforest – this continent will baffle you with its enormity. While cities like Rio de Janeiro swing to the sounds of samba, locals jostle around market stalls in Cuzco and indigenous farmers offer prayers to Pachamama – Mother Earth. Footprint’s 93rd edition of the South American Handbook is the ideal guidebook for adventure-hungry travellers. From Inca ruins and tropical jungles to t...

A lip-smacking, full colour collection of evocative recipes combined with reminiscences and anecdotes from over four decades of South American travel from writer and food enthusiast, Ben Box, author of the classic travel bible, the South American Handbook.'It's one thing to sit down in a restaurant overlooking the Plaza in Cuzco or at a seafood shack beside a Brazilian beach, but quite another to learn how to prepare the food yourself and serve it to friends in your home country' s...

Bolivia is home to enormous biodiversity: surreal volcanic landscapes, lush valleys, vast salt flats and Amazon jungle. Footprint’s 6th edition Bolivia Handbook will guide you from the blinding-white expanse of Salar de Uyuni and racing round hairpin bends on the most dangerous road in the world to the stunning turquoise of Lake Titicaca.• Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the country, including trekking, wildlife spotting & the Che Guevara trail• Loaded wi...

One moment you're sitting atop a snow-capped mountain, the next you're photographing breaching humpback whales or swimming with penguins... What one of South America's smallest countries lacks in size it certainly makes up for in variety. Travellers to Quito and the Galápagos Islands can admire colonial-era buildings in Quito, hike along volcanoes in Cotopaxi Park or visit the otherworldly Galápagos islands. Footprintfocus Quito & Galápagos Islands offers vital advice on how to navigate yo...

Peru is home to more archaeological sites than any other country in South America. However, with mangroves, cloud forest, oases in the desert and glacial lakes, it is also a country of incredible natural diversity. Footprint’s 9th edition Peru Handbook will guide you from spectacular and spiritual fiestas to the awe-inspiring sights of the Sacred Valley.• Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the region, including trekking, ancient ruins and surfing• Loaded wit...

Linked by the sinuous spine of the Andes, Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador are born of a synthesis of ancient America and medieval Europe. Footprint’s Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador Handbook will guide you from the unforgettably unique Galápagos Islands, through the awe-inspiring citadel of Machu Picchu, to the shimmering turquoise waters of Lake Titicaca.• Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the region, including the colonial treasures of Quito; spectacular costumed festivals; sacr...

Where gentle humour and a little romance meet classic murder-mysteries.Join the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes as they set about solving three murder cases, each set in and around the small Oxfordshire market town of Banbury in the early 1960s.Each story brings you an array of colourful characters. From the elusive and calculating killers, to the unsuspecting and promptly dispatched victims. From the untrustw...

Where gentle humour and a little romance meet classic murder-mysteries.Join the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes as they set about solving three murder cases, each set in and around the small Oxfordshire market town of Banbury in the early 1960s.Each story brings you an array of colourful characters. From the elusive and calculating killers, to the unsuspecting and promptly dispatched victims. From the untrustw...

L'edizione originale di questo racconto sull'epopea hobo, del 1937, si spacciava come l'«autobiografia» di una donna che per vivere nell'America della Grande Depressione si era unita a quel mondo di vagabondi che saltavano sui carri merci per spostarsi in tutto il paese. In cerca di lavoro, certo, ma anche in cerca di avventura, o magari per partecipare a uno dei tanti scontri sociali scoppiati da qualche parte. Ma Box-Car Bertha, la supposta autrice, non è mai esistita, mentre è esistito,...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 441 thru 445 brings together five unforgettable classics that capture the excitement, mystery, and imagination of vintage speculative fiction. From the frozen landscapes of Saturn’s largest moon to the depths of the human mind, these timeless stories offer adventure, suspense, and unforgettable ideas that continue to captivate readers.Ben Bova opens the collection with The Towers of Titan, an exciting tale of exploration where a m...

Called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century," Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ was a best-seller in the 1880s, eclipsing the sales of Uncle Tom's Cabin and, later, Gone With the Wind to become the best-selling American novel of all time. The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian. Parallel with Judah's narrative ...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 481 thru 485 gathers five remarkable adventures that blend cosmic mysteries, impossible discoveries, alien encounters, and thought-provoking speculation into one unforgettable collection. Featuring stories by Ben Bova, Jack Williamson, Henry Kuttner, William Bender Jr., and Fritz Leiber, these timeless classics capture the imagination and excitement that made the Golden Age of science fiction legendary.Ben Bova opens with The Next Logical ...