South America

From Machu Picchu to the Amazon rainforest

Featuring 200 vivid photographs, South America offers a pictorial exploration of this great and varied continent in all its majesty from the wonders of the Inca, majestic rainforests, stunning buildings and beautiful beaches.

The continent of South America is home to impressive diversity and extremes in geography. You can find not only the worlds largest river the Amazon River but also the driest non-polar place in the world the Atacama Desert in addition to Angel Falls in Venezuela, the worlds highest uninterrupted waterfall and the worlds most southernmost permanently inhabited community of Puerto Toro in Chile. Apart from Antarctica, no other continent reaches so far to the south, it has the unique feature of stretching north of the Equator all the way to subantarctic latitudes. This broad range showcases an exceptional diversity of South American climate and ecology. Di