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Books posted in Venezuela:



Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
The Hacienda by Lisa St Aubin de Terán
Iphigenia: The Diary of a Young Lady by Teresa de la Parra
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas
The Trees: Selected Poems 1967-2004 by Eugenio Montejo
In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon
The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas by Patricia Marquez
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution by Hugo Chavez
The Oyster Cocktail: A Venezuelan Novel by Tomas Sancio
Cowboy in Caracas by Charles Hardy
The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
The Missionary by William Carmichael
Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens: A Couchsurfer's Memoir of Venezuela
The Silence and the Scorpion by Brian Nelson
In the Shadow of Papillon: Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System
Skin by Margaret Mascarenhas
The Young Llanero by W. H. G. Kingston
The History of Venezuela by H. Micheal Tarver
Spirit Song: Cape of the Red Jaguar by Sherry Janes
The Space of Silence: Selected poems by Rafael Cadenas
Hush by Cherry Adair
Memories of Altagracia by Salvador Garmendia
Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela by Pei-Lin Yu
Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest by Jacques Lizot

Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson (Mostly Guyana)

Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear (a sequel to Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World)

Now available in Kindle, NOOK and Kobo editions and including a photographic insert. (Price $3.99).

'Along the River that Flows Uphill' by Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt is a travel book with a difference. It weaves the story of an Amazon journey with science, math and reason to explore the risks that are inherent in any adventurous travel.
One recent summer, authors Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt were commissioned by 'Geographical' – the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society in London – to travel the length of a strange river in Venezuela called the Casiquiare.
This river – once the source of great controversy – is like no other, since it joins two otherwise-separate river systems, the Orinoco and the Amazon, by apparently flowing up and over the watershed that divides them. Rivers should not be able to do that.
In their book, the authors recount the story of their journey on the Casiquiare, including a brush with a tribe of Yanomami Indians and a confrontation with FARC guerrillas. Along the way, they also explore thoughts and ideas – both humorous and serious – that relate to the thrills and stresses of off-the-map travel.

Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe by Bruce Olson

'Along the River that Flows Uphill - from the Orinoco to the Amazon' by Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt.
Now available in Kindle, NOOK and Kobo formats for $3.99, and includes photographs of the primitive Yanomami indians who the authors met on their Venezuelan river journey.

Playing for Keeps by Stevie Rios

Orinoco by Dan Pollock

Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela by Marcia Ochoa

Along the River that Flows Uphill: From the Orinoco to the Amazon

More books set in Venezuela:



Alphabet of the World: Selected Works by Eugenio Montejo
Artifact by Kevin J. Anderson
Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon by Henri Charrière
Blue Gold by Clive Cussler (2nd book in the NUMA Files series)
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
Canaima by Rómulo Gallegos
Caracas Notebook by Guillermo Parra
Claper by Alicia Freilich
The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Paul Keany
Crimes by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
The Dolphin People by Torsten Krol
Doña Inés vs. Oblivion: A Novel by Ana Teresa Torres
Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela
Dragons in the Waters by Madeleine L'Engle (2nd book in O'Keefe Family series)
Empire Of Gold by Andy McDermott (7th book of Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase)
Falke by Federico Vegas
Hunt Her Down by Roxanne St. Claire (7th book in Bullet Catcher series)
Into the Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami
Keepers of the House by Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
The Lady, the Chef, and the Courtesan: A Novel by Marisol
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
Mama Blanca's Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra
The Mighty Orinoco by Jules Verne
The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Teran
Poetry and Loss: The Work of Eugenio Montejo
Quest for the Lost World by Brian Blessed
Rating by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Sea change by Richard Armstrong
Selected Writings of Andres Bello by Andrés Bello
The Survival of Jan Little by John Man

The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami by David Good

Octavio's Journey by Miguel Bonnefoy

More books set in Venezuela:


Comandante: Myth and Reality in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela by Rory Carroll
The Continuum Concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost by Jean Liedloff
Crude Words: Contemporary Writing from Venezuela by Montague Kobbé
Forced Disappearance by Dana Marton (1st book in series)
His Wicked Kiss by Gaelen Foley (7th book in Knight Miscellany series)
Ifigenia by Teresa de la Parra
Mac Parker: Escape from Venezuela
Rajatabla by Luis Britto García
The Sense of Darkness by Cinzia De Santis
A Tropical Affair by Pauline Saull
Tropical Tempest by Flora Kidd
Venezuela heroica by Eduardo Blanco
Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle by Marc; de Civrieux

Black Sugar by Bonnefoy Miguel

It Would Be Night in Caracas