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