 | Rio de Janeiro (City Guide) by Regis St. Louis
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $18.00 Lonely Planet produces some great travel books and this one is up there with their best. A perfect, compact traveller's guide for those heading to Rio de Janeiro this year.
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 | Brazil (Country Guide) by Regis St. Louis
Buy new: $17.81 / Used from: $17.79 This newest edition (as of January 2008) of Lonely Planet's Brazil travel guide is an excellent resource for those preparing to visit this great country. Great photos, objective commentary and generally up-to-date information (the US Dollar's rapid decline in recent months throws the guide's pricing estimates off a bit) make this guide a good choice to bring on your trip to Brazil.
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 | Brazil (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Oliver Marshall
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $14.80 The Eyewitness Travel Guides are probably hands-down my favorite of all travel guides on the market. The wonderful photos, detailed maps, historical background as well as up-to-date current information make this Brazil guide an entertaining, educational and extremely helpful resource to the traveler planning a trip to this beautiful country.
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 | Time Out Rio de Janeiro (Time Out Guides) by Editors of Time Out
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $6.78 I had a chance to review a galley of this upcoming book and do highly recommend it. The Time Out guides are always chock-a-block with great info and this one is no exception.
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 | Rio for Partiers: The visual travel guide to Rio de Janeiro, 6th edition by Cristiano Nogueira
Buy used from: $13.24 An interesting guide for those with lots of night clubbing on their agendas. Also includes great information and tips on many other activities, tours, sites, beaches, hotels and restaurants. Recommended for both the twenty-something through to the sixty-something traveller.
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![Discovery Atlas: Brazil Revealed [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wk-p4iV2L._SL75_.jpg) | Discovery Atlas: Brazil Revealed [Blu-ray]
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.25 The Discovery Channel produces some very nice video travelogues and this one is no exception! This DVD would be great viewing in preparation for a trip to Brazil.
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 | Moon Handbooks Brazil by Christopher Van Buren
Buy new: $16.89 / Used from: $0.01 Superb up-to-date guide book! Written by an ex-pat living in Brazil. Great information and highly recommended!!!
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 | Fodor's Brazil, 4th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides) by Fodor's
Buy used from: $0.33 Fodor's newest travel guide to Brazil is full of great current (as of Spring 2006) information. Certainly worth purchasing in preparation for that journey to Brazil!
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 | Insight Pocket Guide Rio De Janeiro And Its Coast (Insight Pocket Guides) by Liz Wynne-Jones
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $2.08 A great compact guide (with map) to take to Rio de Janeiro.
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 | Insight Guide Brazil (Discovery Channel) by Jane Ladle
Buy new: $17.90 / Used from: $0.01 This Insight Guide has tons of great photos and it is highly informative even though it is dated. A new edition of this guide is coming out shortly (see next item). So if you are able to wait a few months before purchasing, then the newer version will be a much better option.
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 | Insight Guide Brazil (Insight Guides Brazil)
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $1.98 This is the new edition of Insight's Guide to Brazil. I believe that it comes out in late August or early September 2007. If you can hold out until then, I would go ahead and pre-order this edition versus buying the current edition of the guide which had stale information when it was released and is very dated now.
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 | Insight Guide Rio De Janeiro (Insight Guides) by Taylor. Edwin
Buy used from: $0.26 Another Insight Guide but this one narrows its focus to Rio de Janeiro. A fine read and good prep for a trip to Rio.
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 | Globe Trekker - Brazil
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.88 A great video intro to the Northeast part of Brazil and the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro. Tour guide Ian Wright is a hoot and makes this DVD both interesting and entertaining!
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 | Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.58 A wonderful CD for those who enjoy Brasilian music! Contains the definitive version of " The Girl from Ipanema."
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 | Frommer's Brazil by Shawn Blore
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $0.01 A fine travel guide. Filled with great info.
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 | Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary 2e (HarperCollins Concise Dictionaries) (English and Portuguese Edition) by Harpercollins Publishers
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $6.29 Though a little too big for a travel dictionary, this is one of best Portuguese dictionaries on the market. Covers both continental and Brazilian usage.
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 | Collins Gem Portuguese Dictionary English-Portuguese, Portuguese-English by HarperCollins
Buy used from: $7.92 A super little Portuguese dictionary for your carry-on.
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 | Carnival in Rio by Helmut Teissl
Buy used from: $11.24 Can't make it to Carnival? Then this great photo essay book will bring Carnival to you. It even comes with a music CD. So put on your headphones open this book and its Carnival!
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 | Knopf Guide: Brazil (Knopf Guides) by Knopf Guides
Buy used from: $7.24 Not the best tour guide but perfect for those wishing to know more about Brasil's cultural and geographic history.
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 | The Little Capoeira Book by Nestor Capoeira
Buy used from: $0.48 Capoeria is Brazil's own Martial Art. This little book will give you a great introduction to this beautiful art form.
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 | How to Be a Carioca by Priscilla Ann Goslin
Buy used from: $8.73 An amusing read but shouldn't be taken as a serious study of the people of Rio de Janeiro.
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 | City of God
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.97 One of the best films to come out of Brasil in recent times. The added documentary about the conflict between the police and the favela drug lords is truly haunting.
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 | Let's Go Brazil 1st Edition by Let's Go Inc.
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $0.15 This travel guide covers almost everything you'd need to know about traveling around Brasil economically. If you are on a shoestring budget then this is the guide for you!
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 | Moonraker
Buy used from: $3.24 Not the best Bond film but notable for the cable car battle between 007 and Jaws above the dizzying heights of Pao de Azucar and Urca mountains.
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 | Blame It On Rio
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.89 A comic romp which is more about a man's middle-age crisis than Rio de Janeiro but filled with excellent scenes of the "marvelous city".
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 | Elétrica by Daniela Mercury
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $3.99 The music of Daniela Mercury is upbeat, infectious and heard all over Brazil, especially in her hometown of Salvador da Bahia!
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 | The Brazilians by Joseph A. Page
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $2.00 An interesting read with good insight to the Brazilian psyche.
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 | Rio de Janeiro City Streets by Berndtson & Berndtson
Buy used from: $29.47 A nice folding map to take on your trip to Rio.
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 | The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil by Chris McGowan
Buy new: $24.28 / Used from: $3.16 A superb work on Bossa Nova and Brasilan pop music. A great read!
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 | The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942 by Robert M.Levine
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $3.30 Incredible photo studies from a time gone by.
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 | Travelers' Tales Brazil (Travelers' Tales Guides)
Buy used from: $0.02 Interesting and informative traveler's tales from throughout Brasil. Well worth a read for those who want the personal perspective of others who have been there.
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 | Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World by Ruy Castro
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $11.99 The signature music for which Brasil is world reknown. If you have any interest in Bossa Nova, this is the book for you!
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 | Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
Buy used from: $0.01 Jorge Amado is perhaps the most important literary talent to come out of Brasil; this work is one of his best.
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 | Berlitz Rio De Janeiro (Berlitz Pocket Guides) by Ken Bernstein
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $1.78 A great compact guide to take on your trip!
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 | Río de Janeiro (guía turística)
Needs to be updated but a very good Spanish-Language guide to Rio de Janeiro.
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