Product Description: Reveals the striking parallels between indigenous cultures of the Americas and the ancient Homeric world as well as Tolkien’s Middle Earth • Explores the shamanic use of healing songs, psychoactive plants, and vision quests at the heart of the Odyssey and the fantasy works of J...read more

Product Description: José Hernández’s Martin Fierro is considered the foremost work of the gaucho literary genre. The first part, a critique of the Argentine politico-social system, details the persecution of the title character by institutions of power, while the second part presents a clear response to the gaucho problem and with it the reconciliation of civilization and frontier in 19th-century Argentine society...read more