Why a Booktrail?
1800s, 2000s: A great way to learn about the Spanish colonial regime and Argentina’s independence from Spain in 1810
The Argentina Reader
What you need to know before your trail
Who is Argentina? If it were a person how would it be described? by the end of the 20th century it was the most modern country in Latin America. but everyone knows it for Eva Perón and its politics, the dictatorship and maybe its place in the new economy.
But this is only one face of a country with many many interesting and fascinating layers.
This is a great solid introduction to Argentina’s history, culture, and society. Forget the text books – this gives you short stories, photographs, songs and much more to show you the true personality of a great and fascinating country.
Travel Guide
Students of Spanish will love this as it explains and brings into one collection many things about Argentina that are useful and interesting. The Argentina Reader contains photographs from Argentina’s National Archives and images of artwork by some of the country’s most talented painters and sculptors. Many selections deal with the history of indigenous Argentines, workers, women, blacks, and other groups often ignored in descriptions of the country.
This is a journey across the decades and across the country and there’s not much you won’t find here. Translators of Spanish will find this a good reference book so there really is a lot of information to take in. But you can dip in and out and really get a feel and a taste for Argentina which is a country of mystery and intrigue on so many levels –
Political Argentina – José de San Martín and Juan Perón.
Literary Argentina – Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, and Julio Cortázar.
This was perhaps our favourite part purely as it reads like a very interesting list of who and what to read. Jorge Luis Borges wrote Ficciones which is a text on many a translators list of books to read (university reads too in our experience)
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