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Author : Will G. Peters
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467842068
Author : Will G. Peters
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438907932
Bill Randolph, is on his last assignment as field representative for the Senate Oversight Committee for the CIA. At the age of forty-three, he is ready to retire. Monique, his lovely young wife, is eagerly looking forward to his retirement and to their plans to go sailing on their new yacht. However, their plans fall apart when Bill is called upon to serve his country again in one emergency after another. Monique, out of loneliness and disappointment, accepts an invitation from friends to join them on a skiing trip to Chile. Their private jet crashes into the Guaviare River in the Colombian jungle. Bill is excused from his assignment in Iran, travels to Colombia, locates his wife, and rescues her from the clutches of drug lords. Getting back to their home in Ft. Lauderdale, they set sail on their newly commissioned ketch for the Virgin Islands. While in the islands they encounter a hurricane and rescue shipwrecked sailors. Leaving Eagle their Ketch in Charlotte Amalie they have to rush back home to Ft. Lauderdale and then fly to Washington for a meeting with the President.
Author : Edward Heawood
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547319191
"A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" presents a thorough study of the most important geographical discoveries around the world. The book tells about the expeditions to different parts of the world, from the North Pacific, through Asia, Africa, Americas to Australia.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819567802
Written in 1898, and part of Jules Verne's famous series "Voyages Extraordinaires, " this fantastic tale a young man's search for his father along Venezuela's then-uncharted Orinoco River contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure storyQas well as a unique feminist twist.
Author : José Eustasio Rivera
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822371762
Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history.
Author : René De La Pedraja
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786470167
This book, continuing the narrative begun by the author in two preceding volumes, provides a clear description of military combat occurring in Latin America for the years from 1982 into mid-2013. Although the text concentrates on combat operations, matters of politics, business and international relations appear as necessary to understand the wars. The author has uncovered many previously unknown sources to provide new information never published before. The book traces the many insurgencies in Latin America as well as conventional wars. Among the highlights are the chapters on the Falklands War and the U.S. invasions of Grenada and Panama. One useful aspect of the text is an explanation of why, of the many insurgencies appearing in Latin America, only those in Cuba and Nicaragua were successful in overthrowing governments. The book also helps explain why even unsuccessful insurgencies have survived for decades, as has happened in Colombia and Peru. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Dolores Luna Guinot
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781490711560
During the time he spent in the Portuguese islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, Cristopher Columbus, a navigator from Genoa, was in charge of a dying sailor, from Castile whose caravel had been carried by the current from the Gulf of Guinea to a remote sea, possibly the Caribean. On his deathbed, this man had told Columbus the secret of some lands where Siberians had arrived during the Pleistocene and some documents about some possible previous trips. This sailor assured that such lands he had achieved carried by the currents were the same ones he was referring to. When Columbus arrived in Spain, he tried to convince the Crown of Castile about his projects, which were precisely the same ones that Isaiah had prophesied as destined for getting the limits of the horizons. During his description, Columbus looked so sure that both the Queen Isabel and the King Fernando wondered whether he was trying to conceal a proved reality, a mistery he took to his grave. When Columbus asked them for a subsidy, Fernando el Catlico commented him that coffers were empty at that point as they had just subjugated the whole Al-Andalus after the seizure of Granada and therefore the defeat of the most unlucky Nasrid king, Boabdil, known as the little man. Due to the Spanish explorers of the 15th century, Spain became the biggest commercial power amongst the European countries. They built up settlements which would last until three centuries later in a colonizing expansive process; until the loss of Spanish power on such territories from the decade of 1810s on, when the Independence began. Since the late 18th century, until the early 19th Century, the West witnessed a series of chain revolutions which affected Western Europe and Spanish America at the same time. The invasin of Napoleon, Francisco de Miranda, Simon Bolivar, Masonic lodges, together with envies, betrayals or lovers make this book to be a thrilling adventure based on historic real.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCLA:L0081585127
Author : Ernesto Sánchez Triana,Kulsum Ahmed,Yewande Awe
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821368886
Environmental degradation is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and decreased productivity. Urban and indoor air pollution; inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene; natural disasters (mainly floods and landslides); and land degradation are the environmental problems associated with the highest social and economic costs, falling most heavily on vulnerable people, especially poor children under five years old. This book begins by exploring institutional change and environmental priorities in Colombia over the past 50 years, a time of substantial progress in environmental protection and rapid transition from a largely rural to a highly urbanised economy. Part 2 assesses the burden of disease rooted in inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene; poor air quality; and natural disasters; and the environmental management practices to reduce that burden. A discussion of the environmental costs of rapid and unplanned urbanisation is also included. Part 3 assesses the sustainable management of Colombia's rich endowment of natural resources.
Author : Robert Henry Davis
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002858554
Provides a quick reference to a nation whose history reaches back to 10,000 BC. Includes material from all major periods, 14th century to the present.
Author : Pan American Health Organization
Publisher : Pan American Health Org
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : America
ISBN : 9789275115879
The 2002 edition of this quadrennial publication presents a regional analysis of the health situation and trends in the Americas region, as well as for each of the 47 countries and territories in the region. It is published in two volumes and covers mainly the years from 1997-2000. This edition focuses upon the inequalities in health. Volume One looks at issues dealing with leading health and health-related indicators, ranging from mortality and changes in life expectancy to the relationship between health and income distribution. It also considers current health conditions and trends including disease prevention and control, health promotion and environmental protection. Volume Two examines each country's overall health conditions, including institutional organisation, health regulations and the overall operation of health services.
Author : Jr. Denton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351324106
In the fourth volume of this annual series, Robert G. Breene provides a comprehensive overview, analysis, and summary of the major political and economic trends and events in Central America, MERCOSUR, Andean and Caribbean nations, and Mexico. Analyzing these developments within the individual nations, their respective regions, and the world at large, the yearbook offers a timely look at the relevant background and information necessary to understand the changing nature of politics in Latin America today. The volume's opening two chapters continue the coverage of the earlier volumes, presenting details of various Latin American elections with relevant background information. The remaining five chapters cover various aspects of the development of regional history during the year 2001. Chapter 3 on U.S. diplomacy examines the immediate impact of President Clinton's various Latin American trips and initiatives. The Hemispheric Left and support for the Hemispheric Left are treated in general terms in chapter 4, while the next three chapters examine specific nations, Colombia (chapter 5), Venezuela (chapter 6), and Cuba (chapter 7) where these forces were of particular importance during the year. The material presented on Cuba is of particular interest considering the September 11, 2001 outrage; although, as the editor notes, it remains to be seen if the measures adopted at Guantanamo did keep Castro from dabbling in the aftermath. The final chapter continues the series' discussion of Latin American international organizations such as the Grupo de Rio and the Organization of American States. The continuity of the information presented in these volumes is one of their valuable assets as is the examination of the Disinformation Operation (DO) of the Hemispheric Left. Disinformation examples are many, ranging from the Harbury DO in Guatemala through Ruz Castro's Foro Soo Paolo and the totally misrepresented Zapatista National Liberation Army to the Great Gringo DO continues to operate with impunity. This is a reference volume with a point of view. It is brimming with facts and provides information not readily available through the American media. Compact, yet comprehensive, it is essential reading for political scientists, Latin American area specialists, and historians.
Author : Pan American Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Pan-Americanism
ISBN : UOM:35112101654913
Author : Kim Baldwin,Xenia Alexiou
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602824997
Can you out run death? Zoe Anderson-Howe's pampered life is abruptly shattered when she's taken hostage by FARC guerrillas while on a business trip to Bogota. While her father struggles to come up with the ransom, the British socialite must endure hardships that test her both mentally and physically. Elite Operative Fetch has been living in the Colombian jungle for six months on a mission to infiltrate the FARC and orchestrate the rescue of western hostages. When Zoe is added to her assignment, Fetch's sense of duty must override the disdain she initially feels for the self-indulgent tabloid queen. The task of freeing Zoe gains new urgency when it appears she may be key in stopping a mysterious new virus that is racing across the globe, killing indiscriminately. The support Fetch counted on is needed elsewhere. Can she get Zoe out of there on her own, and will that be enough to save the millions of lives in peril? Fourth in the romantic intrigue series: Elite Operatives
Author : Pan American Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : America
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063815488
