Oct 19 2011
Focus on Colombia
The October Destination of the Month is South America — offering 15% off on all books and maps for South America.
Our October newsletter features, among other topics, a spotlight on Colombia.
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Cartagena--photo by Harriet
You know a travel destination has gone “mainstream” when The Boston Globe devotes the front page of its Sunday Travel section to it — as they did to a few weeks ago for a piece mostly focused on the Caribbean coast of Colombia around Cartagena.
Globe Corner customers have been aware for a few years about the positive changes underway in Colombia and the great travel experiences that abound there. See our store blog for some past “reports from the field” about Cartagena and Bogotá.
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by Sarah Woods
The second edition of Sarah Woods well-researched guide is scheduled for January 2012 and will be along with the Footprint Guide below, for the early spring 2012 at least, the most up-to-date guide to the country.
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Colombia Handbook (4th edition due in January 2012)
Footprint Handbooks, the UK publisher of the iconic South American Handbook, has been a leading publisher on South American destinations for decades. Some travellers find the series’ organization and style less transparently easy to use – but the series does offer a nice alternative to Lonely Planet and Bradt.
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Culture Smart Guide to Colombia
The Culture Smart series provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. Published April 2011.
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Birds of Colombia
by William Brown & Steven Hilty
Colombia’s long period of instability obscured for travellers the fact that it is one of the premier birding destinations in the world. Describing all of Colombia’s birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world’s largest avifaunas-nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, making the book useful in regions adjacent to Colombia, as well as in the country itself.
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Secret History of Costaguana
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
“One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature”
–Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia’s greatest literary export, Nobel Prize winner Marquez’s work is set in the lush, steamy Caribbean coast of Colombia.
“This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told.”
–The New York Times Book Review
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Gringa in Bogotá: Living Colombia’s Invisible War
by June Carolyn Erlick
Until recently for foreign visitors, Colombia was a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life went on there, and, in Bogotá, it was even possible to forget that war still ravaged parts of the countryside. This paradox of perceptions – outsiders’ fears versus insiders’ realities – drew June Carolyn Erlick (Editor-in-Chief of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America) back to Bogotá for a year’s stay in 2005. She wanted to understand how the city she first came to love in 1975 has made such strides toward building a peaceful civil society in the midst of ongoing violence.
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ITM Colombia Traveler’s Road Map
The best road map available at the moment for the country. Scale is 1:2,000,000.
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