Writer picks top 10 tales of Latin American journeys

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Writer and filmmaker Hugh Thomson has led numerous research expeditions to Peru. The books which have resulted include ‘The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland’ and ‘Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru.’ His latest book, ‘Tequila Oil,’ tells of a wild and dangerous adventure through Mexico’s past and present.

In this article, Thomson picks his 10 favorite accounts of travels and adventures across Latin America.

They are:
1. ‘The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America,’ by Ernesto Che Guevara
2. ‘Mad White Giant,’ by Benedict Allen
3. ‘Tristes Tropiques,’ by Claude Lévi-Strauss
4. ‘Travels With a Circus,’ by Katie Hickman
5. ‘Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson,’ by Evelyn Waugh
6. ‘Love in the Time of Cholera,’ by Gabriel García Márquez
7. ‘Mornings in Mexico,’ by D.H. Lawrence
8. ‘In Patagonia,’ by Bruce Chatwin
9. ‘The Lawless Roads,’ by Graham Greene
10. ‘Keep the River on Your Right,’ by Tobias Schneebaum

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City