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Top 10 Books about Chile

By Bonnie Hamre, About.com

Selected books cover a wide range of topics, from travel planning to politics, history, touring, wildlife, flora and fauna, cultural studies, human rights, cuisine government, military matters, arts and crafts, sports and more about Chile.

1. Moon Handbooks Chile

by Wayne Bernhardson - Wayne's insightful and fun travel suggestions include the Best of Chile, 10 Days Skiing in the Andes, Exploring Wine Country, and Exploring Chilean highlights. Whether you are eager to experience fly fishing at Sur Chico, partake of the Patagonian mystique or follow the paths of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, Moon Chile is your resourceful guide. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon ensures that travelers have an uncommon and entirely satisfying experience — and a few new stories to tell.
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2. Culture Smart! Chile (English)

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.
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3. Chile in Pictures

by Francesca Davis DiPiazza - Intended for the young adult audience, these photos will entrance any age.
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4. The Wines of Chile (English)

Chile has been producing excellent wines for five centuries, but it wasn't until the 1980s that they became widely available around the world. In the first book to focus exclusively on Chilean wines, award-winning writer Peter Richards outlines the fascinating history of Chile's wine industry and explores its wide range of wine styles and winemaking techniques. With the help of ten detailed maps, he takes the reader on a tour of the country's diverse terrains and major winemaking areas.
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5. Insight Compact Guide Chile (English)

Compact Guide Chile includes a chapter detailing Chile's history and culture, 6 tours and excursions taking in sights ranging from Glaciers to Volcanos, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many quality photographs and maps.
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6. The Rough Guide to Chile 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

by Rough Guides (Author) - " it is for its remote and dizzyingly beautiful landscapes that visitors head to Chile. With its population of fifteen million largely confined to a handful of major cities, and a land area three times greater than the UK’s, much of Chile is covered by vast tracts of scarcely touched wilderness – places where you can be days from the nearest tarred road, and where it’s not unusual to stumble upon steaming hot springs, gleaming white salt flats or emerald lakes, and have them all to yourself."

7. Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes (Paperback)

by Clem Lindenmayer (Author), Nick Tapp (Author) - "This is a fantastically comprehensive guide to the trekking areas of the Patagonian Andes. Intelligently laid out with very well-researched maps and local information, it also manages to give a comprehensive overview of what each area has to offer, without being exhaustive." Reviewer's comment.
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8. Chilenismos: A Dictionary and Phrasebook for Chilean Spanish

by Daniel Joelson (Author) - "This book will be a great help for anyone planing on going to Chile, and will be a hoot for anyone who's been there (esp. those who know Spanish). Having lived there, I wish I had this book before I went! I love this book." Reviewer's comment.

9. How to Survive in the Chilean Jungle (Paperback)

by John Brennan (Author), Alvaro Taboada (Author) - Chilean Spanish is not typical Spanish. It is a idiomatic language...[from] Chile's history of immigration and close knit immigrant communities and thus the frequency of words and expressions from other languages (primarily Italian, Yugoslavian, German and English). Added to this is the notable increase of Spanglish, as English schools have spread throughout Chile and as music, movies and technology from the United States has flooded the market.

10. Let's Go Chile 2nd Edition: Including Easter Island (Let's Go Chile) (Paperback)

by Daniel Spitzer, Lucas Tate - Includes expanded info on outdoor activities, new and improved listings in Santiago, and brand-new coverage of Easter Island. Valuable hints, tips, and listings provide the practical know-how to see the sights and experience this nation's cultural diversity first-hand.

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