This is the Footprint South American Handbook:
It’s displayed here as it would look when balanced jauntily on a spiral-bound notepad. There are three important things to know about this guidebook:
- It’s the oldest and best-selling guidebook to South America that exists (currently on 89 editions),
- It makes a really pleasing thudding sound if you drum your fingers on it,
- I researched a huge chunk of the bits on Bolivia.
My research and writing also appears in Footprint’s more specific guidebook, the Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia Handbook: