14 Best South America Books
South America is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top South America audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 14 South America audiobooks below.
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Chile – Culture Smart!
- By: Caterina Perrone
- Narrator: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 4 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 31, 2016
- Language: English
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3.95(27 ratings)
3.95(27 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDCulture Smart! Chile provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Chile, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what toCulture Smart! Chile provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Chile, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! provides rare insights, and practical guidance, into cultures. The values, behavior and customs of peoples have been formed over centuries which is why the unique information in Culture Smart! guides do not date in the same way as ordinary travel guides.
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Soledad & Compania (Solitude and Company)
- By: Silvana Paternostro
- Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDEste libro es un boleto de entrada para una fiesta en la que todos hablan, todos gritan, todos opinan, se contradicen y hasta dicen mentiras. Bienvenidos. Soledad & Compania es un retrato humano, fresco e irreverente de Gabriel Garcia MarquezEste libro es un boleto de entrada para una fiesta en la que todos hablan, todos gritan, todos opinan, se contradicen y hasta dicen mentiras. Bienvenidos.
Soledad & Compania es un retrato humano, fresco e irreverente de Gabriel Garcia Marquez donde se entretejen las voces de sus amigos, sus seres queridos y hasta sus detractores, quienes nunca antes habian compartido sus historias con el primerio Nobel. Habla su mitica agente Carmen Balcells, su traductor al ingles, la espanola a quien dedico Cien anos de soledad, y hasta el escritor norteamericano William Styron, entre otros. Lo que se va desvelando es la biografia de Gabo desde los tiempos desordenados y esperanzadores en que un muchacho de provincia se propuso ser escritor hasta convertirse en uno de los autores mas universalmente leidos y admirados.
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The 33
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrator: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 13, 2015
- Language: English
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3.92(7905 ratings)
3.92(7905 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDPreviously published as Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stroies of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free. The novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas. When thePreviously published as Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stroies of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free.
The novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas.
When the San Jose mine collapsed outside of Copiapo, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consumed by hunger, and experience the awe of working in such a place-underground passages filled with danger and that often felt alive. A masterwork of narrative journalism and a stirring testament to the power of the human spirit, The 33: Deep Down Dark captures the profound ways in which the lives of everyone involved in the catastrophe were forever changed.
A Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award
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A Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu
- By: Mark Adams
- Narrator: Mark Adams
- Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 18, 2012
- Language: English
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3.85(15002 ratings)
3.85(15002 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recastWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the truth-except he’d written about adventure far more than he’d actually lived it. In fact, he’d never even slept in a tent. Turn Right at Machu Picchu is Adams’ fascinating and funny account of his journey through some of the world’s most majestic, historic, and remote landscapes guided only by a hard-as-nails Australian survivalist and one nagging question: Just what was Machu Picchu?
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The Sea and the Jungle
- By: H. M. Tomlinson
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.8(132 ratings)
3.8(132 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDOne rainy morning in the winter of 1909, a man with an altogether average look about him quit his job at the London Morning Leader, kissed his wife and children goodbye, and took a train to Swansea in Wales, where he talked his way aboard aOne rainy morning in the winter of 1909, a man with an altogether average look about him quit his job at the London Morning Leader, kissed his wife and children goodbye, and took a train to Swansea in Wales, where he talked his way aboard a freighter bound for the upper reaches of the Amazon. Three years later, Tomlinson published a book about his adventures. This book made him famous.
“The Sea and the Jungle,” wrote David McCord, “is an invitation to a new experience. It is more than that: an invitation to a new attitude toward life. Sadness perhaps, but no harshness; concern, but no diminution of spirit; doubt, but no hauling down the ensign. ‘The right good book,’ says Mr. Tomlinson, ‘is always a book of travel: it is about a life’s journey.’”
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The Cloud Forest
- By: Peter Matthiessen
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.7(408 ratings)
3.7(408 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFor twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed the South American wilderness, traveling from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Picchu high in the Andes, down to the edge of the world at Tierra del Fuego and back. In the course of hisFor twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed the South American wilderness, traveling from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Picchu high in the Andes, down to the edge of the world at Tierra del Fuego and back. In the course of his journey, he followed the trails of old explorers; encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the evidence of ancient ruins; and discovered a fossilized snout of a giant unknown crocodilian hidden in the depths of the jungle on the wild mountain rivers of Peru.
Filled with observations and descriptions of the people and the fading wildlife of this vast world to the south, The Cloud Forest is Matthiessen’s incisive, wry report of his expedition into some of the last and most exotic wild terrains in the world.
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Fordlandia
- By: Greg Grandin
- Narrator: Greg Grandin
- Length: 15 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 11, 2010
- Language: English
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3.63(3013 ratings)
3.63(3013 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFordlandia by National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin tells the enthralling tale of Henry Ford’s failed attempts to transform a Connecticut-sized chunk of Brazilian rainforest into a homespun slice of American utopia. “Fordlandia is .Fordlandia by National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin tells the enthralling tale of Henry Ford’s failed attempts to transform a Connecticut-sized chunk of Brazilian rainforest into a homespun slice of American utopia. “Fordlandia is . a genuinely readable history recounted with a novelist’s sense of pace and an eye for character. It is a significant contribution [that is] grossly enjoyable.”-Los Angeles Times
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The Encantadas
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrator: Mark Owen
- Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: June 26, 2018
- Language: English
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3.51(120 ratings)
3.51(120 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDThe Encantadas (or Enchanted Isles), is a series of ten descriptive sketches, and a reminiscence from Melville’s sailor days revealing the ecologically pristine Galapagos Islands as both enchanting and horrifying. Containing some ofThe Encantadas (or Enchanted Isles), is a series of ten descriptive sketches, and a reminiscence from Melville’s sailor days revealing the ecologically pristine Galapagos Islands as both enchanting and horrifying. Containing some of Melville’s most memorable prose, The Encantadas were a critical success at a time when Melville’s fortunes were down. After publication, the New York Dispatch cited the chapters as universally considered among the most interesting papers of that popular Magazine, and each successive chapter was read with avidity by thousands. The reviewer called the sketches a sort of mixture of ‘Mardi’ and ‘Robinson Crusoe’–though far more interesting than the first named work.
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Cuba – Culture Smart!
- By: Russell Madicks
- Narrator: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 22, 2016
- Language: English
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3.43(14 ratings)
3.43(14 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDCulture Smart! Cuba provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Cuba, ensuring that you arrive aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide tells you what to expect, how to behave, andCulture Smart! Cuba provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Cuba, ensuring that you arrive aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide tells you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with Cubans. This inside knowledge will enable you to feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships on the largest island in the Caribbean.
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Mysteries of the Tayos Caves
- By: Alex Chionetti
- Narrator: Luke Bob Robinson
- Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.13(10 ratings)
3.13(10 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDA detailed examination of the controversial expeditions to the Tayos Cave complex in Ecuador and the treasures glimpsed in its depths * Reconstructs the expeditions from the 1960s and ’70s, including the Mormon Church’s search for lostA detailed examination of the controversial expeditions to the Tayos Cave complex in Ecuador and the treasures glimpsed in its depths
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* Reconstructs the expeditions from the 1960s and ’70s, including the Mormon Church’s search for lost tablets, Stanley Hall’s quest with Neil Armstrong, and sightings of a metal library, books of gold, copper plates, and a quartz sarcophagus
* Explores connections to Atlantis, Ancient Astronauts, and the Hollow Earth theory and the possibility of tunnel networks that extend from the Rocky Mountains to Patagonia
The Cuevas de los Tayos is a cavern complex in the Amazon rain forest of Ecuador. Named for the tayos, the oil birds that reside within them, these caves have countless enigmas connected with them, from the discovery of inexplicable architectural details, to claims of curses and treasures, to dangerous encounters with the indigenous people, the Shuar, for whom the caves are sacred.
Sharing his more than 30 years of research into the Tayos Caves as well as his own explorations, Alex Chionetti examines the legends and mysteries associated with this site and the explorers who have ventured within. He details the discovery of the Tayos Cave complex by Hungarian explorer Janos Juan Moricz in the 1960s, including Moricz’s claims of finding a metal library with books of gold. Exploring the oral tradition of the Shuar, he explains how this region was the possible origin of Incan culture and the legend of El Dorado. The author shares his own dangerous explorations within the Tayos Caves, and, drawing on unpublished interviews with speleologist Julio Goyen Aguado, he reconstructs the expeditions of the 1960s and ’70s, revealing the Mormon Church’s search for lost tablets, a British army incursion, and sightings of paintings, gold statues and skeletons, copper plates, and a quartz sarcophagus–treasures akin to the Crespi treasure. The author also shares details from Stanley Hall’s suspicious expedition in 1976, which included astronaut Neil Armstrong.
Investigating the lost civilizations behind the Tayos treasures, Chionetti explores the possible connections to Atlantis, aliens, Ancient Astronauts, and the Hollow Earth theory; the caves’ links with hermetic societies; and claims of tunnel networks that extend thousands of miles through both American continents, from the Rocky Mountains to Patagonia. Sharing a real-life adventure story wilder than an Indiana Jones plot, the author shows that Earth’s ancient past has many secrets waiting to be uncovered. -
Las lagrimas del sol (The Tears of the Sun)
- By: Jose Maria Merino
- Narrator: Jose Maria Merino
- Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 04, 2011
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USDMiguel Villace Yocotl, hijo de un conquistador espanol y de una india mexicana, emprende una nueva aventura, en compania de su padrino y de la india Lucia. Un viaje con destino a Peru, interrumpido en el Yucatan, le permitira recorrer “laMiguel Villace Yocotl, hijo de un conquistador espanol y de una india mexicana, emprende una nueva aventura, en compania de su padrino y de la india Lucia. Un viaje con destino a Peru, interrumpido en el Yucatan, le permitira recorrer “la tierra de los pavos y los venados,” internarse en las viejas ciudades abandonadas que la selva ha invadido y participar en las luchas en que los conquistadores intentan vencer la resistencia de los ultimos mayas. Las aventuras de Miguel Villace, que comienzan en El oro de los suenos, continuan en este libro y finalizan en Las lagrimas del sol.
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La invasion de America (The Invasion of America)
- By: Antonio Espino
- Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: July 27, 2022
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDTras el desembarco de Cristobal Colon en las Indias se inicio la explotacion de un vasto continente habitado por millones de personas. Durante varios siglos, las fuerzas hispanas desplegaron toda una serie de estrategias militares para derrocar aTras el desembarco de Cristobal Colon en las Indias se inicio la explotacion de un vasto continente habitado por millones de personas. Durante varios siglos, las fuerzas hispanas desplegaron toda una serie de estrategias militares para derrocar a los imperios precolombinos y oprimir a las sociedades amerindias, usando con profusion el terror, la crueldad y la violencia extrema. Tacticas de combate friamente calculadas que desencadenaron uno de los hechos mas sangrientos de la historia moderna y cuyas consecuencias todavia hoy padecemos.
El catedratico Antonio Espino ofrece en este libro una brillante cronica de la Conquista y analiza la historia militar y sus aspectos mas brutales y sanguinarios. Una extraordinaria y documentada narracion que permite observar bajo una nueva luz el brutal pasado del continente americano. Una luz que despoja los hechos de cualquier desviacion mitificadora y de los reiterados intentos de buena parte de la historiografia conservadora hispanica de justificar la colonizacion, alegando una inequivoca intencion civilizadora.
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Exploration Fawcett
- By: P. H. Fawcett
- Narrator: Robin Sachs
- Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDThe mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the unknown and unexplored territory of Brazil’s Mato Grosso in 1925. For ten years he had wandered the forests and death-filled rivers in search of aThe mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the unknown and unexplored territory of Brazil’s Mato Grosso in 1925. For ten years he had wandered the forests and death-filled rivers in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time with two companions, one of whom was his eldest son, to destination “Z,” never to be heard from again. This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett’s ten years of travels in deadly jungles and forests in search of a secret city was compiled by his younger son from manuscripts, letters, and logbooks. What happened to him after remains a mystery.
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Ecuador – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- By: Russel Maddicks
- Narrator: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDSqueezed between Colombia in the north and Peru in the south, Ecuador is named for its location on the Equator and has a landscape so varied that it has been described as a microcosm of every microclimate found in South America. This diversity makesSqueezed between Colombia in the north and Peru in the south, Ecuador is named for its location on the Equator and has a landscape so varied that it has been described as a microcosm of every microclimate found in South America. This diversity makes it a magnet for tourists, mountain trekkers, volunteers, and increasing numbers of US retirees looking for a warm, culturally interesting, economical, and safe place to spend much of their time. Ecuador’s multiethnic population reflects a unique blend of cultures, from traditionally dressed mountain peoples, whose ancestors inhabited their highland villages before the arrival of the Incas, to the Afro-Ecuadorians of Esmeraldas and the Chota Valley and the tribal peoples of the Amazonian rainforest. The Ecuadorians are proud, friendly, hospitable, and hardworking, but to know them well, the foreign visitor needs to understand the complex historical divisions between the highlands and the coast, and the rigid class and racial hierarchy that has shaped the country’s history. Culture Smart! Ecuador takes you beyond the usual descriptions of where to go and what to see and gives you an insider’s view of the people, their history, their food, and their culture. Special sections are designed to help food lovers get the most out of the menu, assist business travelers to gain an edge on the competition, and show expats, volunteers, and visitors how to meet and get on well with the Ecuadorians, who are as diverse and varied as the country’s amazing geography.
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