
by Ben Box (Author)
This handbook, in its 75th edition and a Thomas Cook Best Travel Guide, provides detailed and practical travel information on South America. The region has much to offer the visitor, from the Caribbean culture of the northern countries of Colombia and Venezuela to the vastness of the southern cone countries of Chile and Argentina. Ancient sites can be explored such as Machu Picchu, or modern cities like Buenos Aires and colonial towns such as Cartegena. The guidebook contains practical travel facts, maps and background information and covers the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Galapagos, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and The Guianas.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 1680
Edition: 75th edition
Publisher: Footprint Handbooks
Published: Aug 1998
ISBN 10: 1900949210
ISBN 13: 9781900949217
Book Overview: 75th anniversary edition. This handbook won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards Guide Book Category. Footprint Handbooks won the Bronze Award i n the 1999 Top Guidebook Series of the Wanderlust Readers' Awards.