The Lonely Planet Latin American Spanish Phrasebook is not only an extensive list of useful phrases, but also an ideal tool to start getting to grips with a language & beginning two-way communication. Containing excellent sections on language basics such as numbers, question phrases, dates, phrase construction, grammar & pronunciation, as well as containing concise but well-rounded two-way dictionaries, Lonely Planet phrasebooks enable you to quickly & confidently construct your own phrases in addition to those given. The given phrases cover all the essential travel & tourism categories such as transport, communications, business meetings & accommodation, as well as in-depth categories such as health, food & social interaction. Newer editions such as this have a fresh visual design with an intuitive layout that makes them much easier to read than other publisher ...

Latin American Spanish in the Phrasebooks series from Rough Guides; comprising of pocket-sized guides aimed at providing travellers with essential communication & language tips & skills while travelling. Each guide has a double-language dictionary, preceded by a basic grammar section with a clear A-Z format, simple pronunciation guides, travel scenario dialogues & menu readers, all enhanced by an easy-to-read design. There are also helpful hints on cultural do's & don'ts, useful travel tips & references to popular local food & drink. Each book also has a web page where you can download the travel scenarios, recorded with native speakers, as audio files for your Mac, PC or iPod. ...

Speak the right lingo in country after country, for over 5, 000 miles! This book covers the local Spanish of: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay & Venezuela.
For additional travel in the region, see Lonely Planet's Mexican Spanish, Costa Rican Spanish & Quechua Phrasebooks.
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One of the most familiar jazz genres, Latin jazz has achieved global popularity since big bands in the 1940s & 50s started incorporating Afro-Cuban sounds into their arrangements. This mixture of Afro-Cuban rhythms & jazz stylings comes together on Latin Jazz, a lively collection of songs by masters of the genre. Latin Jazz features legends Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Eddie Palmieri & others.CD Track listing:1 Machito with Cannonball Adderley, ' Congo Mulence' (Cuba/USA) 2 Poncho Sanchez, ' El Sabroson' (USA) 3 T ...

One of the most familiar jazz genres, Latin jazz has achieved global popularity since big bands in the 1940s & 50s started incorporating Afro-Cuban sounds into their arrangements. This mixture of Afro-Cuban rhythms & jazz stylings comes together on Latin Jazz, a lively collection of songs by masters of the genre. Latin Jazz features legends Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Eddie Palmieri & others.CD Track listing:1 Machito with Cannonball Adderley, ' Congo Mulence' (Cuba/USA) 2 Poncho Sanchez, ' El Sabroson' (USA) 3 T ...

Putumayo World Music invites you to experience the magical blending of Jamaican jams & Latin beats with Latin Reggae, a collection featuring both trailblazers & newcomers from the rock & reggae scenes of Latin America & Spain.CD Track listing:1 Muchachito Bombo Infierno, ' Conversaciones Incompatibles' (Spain) 2 Macaco, ' Mulata Descolorada' (Spain) 3 Radio Malanga, ' Charito Va' (Spain) 4 Los Cafres, ' La Receta' (Argentina) 5 Cultura Prof ...

This remarkable yearbook by Danielle & Olivier Follmi, the latest in their successful 365 series, presents the wise words of a leading personality in Latin American literature for every day of the year, accompanied by Olivier's beautiful, moving photographs of Latin America's people & places, from Central America to the tip of Chile, from Popocatepetl to Patagonia. ...

Latina Province at 1:150, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is now available in a digitally produced edition.LAC’s provincial series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

From a deserted mining camp in the Arctic Circle to the deck of a deep sea trawler, Charles Moseley has explored every corner of the northern lands & seas. In this captivating work, he describes a haunting world, where the voices of the past are never quiet. From his account of the last days of the Viking settlements in Greenland to his own experiences on the melting glaciers of Spitsbergen, he reminds us how deceptive are human ideas of permanence, & how fragile are the systems of these starkly beautiful lands. A study of the literature, history, culture, geography & ecology of the northern regions from Norway to Greenland ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...