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1) Argentina
Author
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2016
Description
This guide contains invaluable information needed for a visit on any budget: getting there and around; history and culture; accommodation; local cuisine; places and times to visit; prices to pay; health and safety advice; and maps.
Author
Publisher
Rough Guides
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Discover Argentina with this comprehensive, entertaining, 'tell it like it is' Rough Guide, packed with comprehensive practical information and our experts' honest and independent recommendations. Whether you plan to ride horses on an estancia, dance tango in Buenos Aires, hike across Glaciar Perito Moreno or visit the elephant seals at Peninsula Valdes, 'The Rough Guide to Argentina' will help you discover the best places to explore, sleep, eat,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Spoilt, resourceful and proud, Sofia is loved by all around her. All, that is, except her Irish mother Anna. When Sofia embarks on a passionate love affair, Anna is horrified and sends Sofia away to Europe, exiling her from her family and her lover.
Author
Publisher
Jammer Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Benjamin Chaparro is a man haunted by his past. A retired detective, he remains obsessed with the decades-old case of the rape and murder of a young woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the details of the investigation, he is reacquainted with his similarly long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos, then just an intern, now a respected judge. Set in Buenos Aires in the 1970s.
5) Argentina
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2024
Description
This guide contains invaluable information needed for a visit on any budget: getting there and around; history and culture; accommodation; local cuisine; places and times to visit; prices to pay; health and safety advice; and maps.
Author
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
A reflection on the 'Argentine dilemma' and the challenges that the country faces as it tries to rebuild democracy, this text analyzes Argentina's often tragic modern history, including the 'alluvial society' and the Juan and Eva Peron years.
8) Betty Boo
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Seemingly unconnected deaths lead to the darkest secrets of the Argentine establishment. It all begins in a luxurious gated community.
Author
Publisher
William Heinemann
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Brian Winter explores the soul of Argentina through its most famous export: the tango. He explains the country's obsession with the dance, telling of his adventures in the sexy, over-caffeinated late-night world of Buenos Aires' tango halls.
Author
Publisher
Granta
Pub. Date
2022
Description
His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast. Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him. For years, they have exploited his father's ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness....
12) In Patagonia
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1998
Description
In Patagonia is a quest of a wonder voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as he goes along, he describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him.
13) Death flight
Author
Publisher
Charnwood
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
Argentina, 1988. Human remains are found on a beach - a gruesome echo of when the tide brought home dozens of bodies thrown from planes during Argentina's Dirty War. Flights of death, their passengers known as the Disappeared. INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNE reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aires interviewing families of the missing, desperate to keep their memory alive, when the corpse turns up. His investigations with his companion, freelance photographer...
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Lionel Messi - Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on and off during the last decade, is ideally placed to chart the sport's development in a country that, perhaps more than any other, lives and breathes football, its theories, and...
17) Messi
Author
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Lionel Messi's career has been a stellar ascent, and shows no signs as yet of slowing down. Born in Rosario in Argentina in 1987, he began playing football at a very young age, and it wasn't long before his skill and potential was noticed in Europe by Barcelona. This book tells his story.
Author
Publisher
VSP
Pub. Date
2010
Description
From his childhood growing up on a farm in rural Argentina, playing football alongside teenage sensation Diego Maradona for Argentina, to the dark early days after arriving in London when he was unable to communicate and suffered serious depression, this is the story of Ricky Villa.
Author
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2022
Description
On the 12th of May 1982, as the Falklands conflict became a shooting war, ITN journalist Julian Manyon and his crew were kidnapped on the streets of Buenos Aires and put through a traumatic mock execution by the secret police. Less than eight hours later they were invited to film an exclusive interview with an apologetic President Galtieri, head of the Argentine Junta. Timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the conflict, this book is an extraordinary...