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Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer's sang-froid, a historian's erudition, and a sense of irony so keen you could cut a finger on it, Gimlette celebrates the beauty, horror and-yes-charm of South America's obscure and remote "island surrounded by land."
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Jonglez Publishing
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2018.
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"A Darth Vader grotesque on a church, a giant chair, the longest escalator in the western hemisphere, a fence forged from War of 1812 muskets, a yet uncracked cryptographic sculpture, the world's oldest continuously operating airport, the only Civil War battleground within the District border, go "behind the curtain" to see the work of an art conservator, have a "close encounter" with one of cinema's most beloved spaceships ... Far from the crowds...
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Emons Verlag
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2017.
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The ultimate insider's guide to Iceland •Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides •Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 170 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide •Appeals to both the local market (over 338,000 people call Iceland home) and the tourist market (nearly 1.3 million people visit Iceland every year!) •Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs...
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