Beggars on Golden Stools: A Journey Through Latin America

Beggars on Golden Stools: A Journey Through Latin America

By
Peter Schmid
Peter Schmid
1975 • 288 pages

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A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
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South America

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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
The Galapagos Affair
Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
A Death in Brazil
Four Kiwis and a Falcon
The Amazon
Diez Cuentos de Eva Luna Con Guia de Comprension y Repaso de Gramatica

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Brazil

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The Amazon
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
The Survival of Jan Little
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
The Tribe That Hides from Man

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24 books

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Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe

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Panama

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Moana: The Vastness of the Sea
The Golden Isthmus
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
The Five Pound Look
Ride the Volcano
The World Is All Islands
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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47 books

Central America

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The Winds of December
Four Kiwis and a Falcon
The Golden Isthmus
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Round Trip from Poptun: A Journey in Search of the Maya
The Comedians
From the Cam to the Cays: The Story of the Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-60

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45 books

Colombia

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To Infinity and Beyond: What Che Guevara Started, Someone Had to Finish
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Out of captivity
The Cocaine Eaters
Killing Pablo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ride the Volcano

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The Tongan: A South Pacific Adventure
The Rise and Fall of Prussia
Tibet Is My Country: Autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, Brother of the Dalai Lama as Told to Heinrich Harrer
The Lost World of the Amazon
Nanga Parbat
The Material Culture of Tuvalu
Floreana

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Mexico

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The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
The Survival of Jan Little
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Mornings in Mexico and Etruscan Places
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization

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Nicaragua

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Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Empire of the Blue Water
The Jaguar Smile
New Worlds to Conquer
The Accidental Adventurer
Holidays in hell
Southern Cross to Pole Star: Tschiffely's Ride

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24 books

Honduras

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The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
From the Cam to the Cays: The Story of the Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-60
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
The Ancient Maya
Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure

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8 books

Uruguay

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The Tender Traveller
The Pampas and the Andes
Sailing Alone Around the World
The Purple Land
The Silent Service
In the Line of Fire
Beggars on Golden Stools: A Journey Through Latin America

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Argentina

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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Voyage in the Beagle
The Tender Traveller
The Pampas and the Andes

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51 books

Chile

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Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
Diez Cuentos de Eva Luna Con Guia de Comprension y Repaso de Gramatica
To Infinity and Beyond: What Che Guevara Started, Someone Had to Finish
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
The Tender Traveller
Voyaging the Pacific : In Search of the South

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13 books

El Salvador

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Press on Regardless
Coleman's Drive
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Holidays in hell
Off The Map
Southern Cross to Pole Star: Tschiffely's Ride
Tschiffely's Ride: Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star

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39 books

Ecuador

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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
The Galapagos Affair
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Across the River of Death
Blinding Light
Floreana
The Fire Ox and Other Years

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84 books

Peru

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To Infinity and Beyond: What Che Guevara Started, Someone Had to Finish
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Treasures Of The Andes: The Glories Of Inca And Pre Columbian South America
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Amazon Journey
Across the River of Death

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37 books

Bolivia

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Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
East to the Amazon: In Search of Great Paititi and the Trade Routes of the Ancients
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
The Tender Traveller
Across the River of Death

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Costa Rica

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Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Ride the Volcano
Views from Abroad: The Spectator Book of Travel Writing
Coleman's Drive
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Venturesome Voyages

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35 books

Guatemala

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A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Round Trip from Poptun: A Journey in Search of the Maya
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
Guatemala, Land of the Mayas
The Ancient Maya
Press on Regardless