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Crossed off the map : travels in Bolivia / Shafik Meghji.

Van Pelt Library F3315 .M44 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Meghji, Shafik, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Meghji, Shafik--Travel--Bolivia.
Meghji, Shafik.
Bolivia--Description and travel.
Bolivia.
Bolivia--History.
Travel.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xiii, 173 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Pubishing Ltd ; Latin America Bureau, [2022]
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Before Bolivia
Indigenous cultures: Llanos de Moxos, Tiwanaku, and Lake Titicaca
2. The mountain that eats men
Silver, colonialism, and globalisation: Potosi
3. Tin kings and rubber barons
Tin, rubber, and tycoons: Oruro, Cochabamba, and Trinidad
4. Flat white
Lithium and salt Salar de Uyuni and the Reserva National de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa
5. Amazon primed
Development projects, ecotourism, and the climate crisis: Rurrenabaque, Barque National Madidi, and Lago Poopo
6. The future is behind us
Indigenous identities, migration, and urbanisation: La Paz and El Alto
7. Mission control
The Jesuit legacy in the eastern lowlands: Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Chiquitos
8. You triumph or you die
Che Guevara: Samaipata, La Higuera, and Vallegrande
9. Coca si
The `war on drugs' and the rise ofEvo Morales: The Yungas, the Chapare, and Cochabamba
10. A dinosaur stampede
The past and the future: Sucre.
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references and index.
ISBN:
9781909014251
1909014257
9781909014268
1909014265
OCLC:
1296118173

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