kommz asked:
Going travelling in South America (Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina) Cuba next year, can someone recommend good topical reading while travelling? (not travel guides!)
Preferably travel fiction based in those countries, but true stories also welcome. Previous good travel reads i liked were The Beach (travel in thailand) and The Full Montezuma (travel in south america (very good!)). Any tips much appreciated!!
Going travelling in South America (Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina) Cuba next year, can someone recommend good topical reading while travelling? (not travel guides!)
Preferably travel fiction based in those countries, but true stories also welcome. Previous good travel reads i liked were The Beach (travel in thailand) and The Full Montezuma (travel in south america (very good!)). Any tips much appreciated!!
I recommend the Guide to the perfect Latin American Idiot.. its very good. Not a travel fictional book, but a book that explains the harsh truth of extremist left and right governments in latin america.
The other book is The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara. It is good too.
Comment by Jose P — July 19, 2009 @ 5:13 am
marching powder, a british guy gets caught up in the bolivian drug trade and spends years in a prison
Patagonian Express.paul theroux travels from boston to argentina on trains
cloud garden. 2 brits hiking through the darien gap and captured by guerillas and held captive for 9 months
Mosquito Coast -fiction..but good
Comment by jasonwilliams55 — July 19, 2009 @ 4:46 pm