Print Materials

The following print materials link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog and the Handbook of Latin American Studies. Links to digitized versions are provided when available.

Books

This is a small selection of the thousands of books available at the Library of Congress on the culture, history, and politics of Honduras. You can find more books listed in the Honduras in the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) section of this guide. Search HLAS and the Library of Congress Online Catalog for more books and other materials. You can find helpful search hints in the Search Tips section of this research guide.

Bananeras by Dana Frank
Call Number: HD6073.B232 L294 2005
ISBN: 0896087557
Published/Created: 2005-10-01
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity. Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras recounts the history and growth of this vital movement.
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo by Elvia Alvarado
Call Number: HN160.Z9 C62 1987
ISBN: 0935028242
Published/Created: 1987-01-01
The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
Call Number: HD9259.B2 Z463 2012
ISBN: 9780374299279
Published/Created: 2012-06-05
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author ofIsrael is Real and Sweet and Low. When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. In between, he worked as a fruit peddler, a banana hauler, a dockside hustler, and a plantation owner. He battled and conquered the United Fruit Company, becoming a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures.
Jungleland by Christopher S. Stewart
Call Number: F1509.M9 S74 2013
ISBN: 9780061802546
Published/Created: 2013-01-08
On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras. Nearly seventy years later, in the same hotel, acclaimed journalist Christopher S. Stewart wonders what he's gotten himself into. Stewart and Morde seek the same answer on their quests: the solution to the riddle of the whereabouts of Ciudad Blanca, buried somewhere deep in the rain forest on the Mosquito Coast. Imagining an immense and immaculate El Dorado-like city made entirely of gold, explorers as far back as the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés have tried to find the fabled White City.
Jungle of Stone by William Carlsen
Call Number: F1435 .C31585 2016
ISBN: 9780062407399
Published/Created: 2016-04-26
The acclaimed chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya. Includes the history of the major Maya sites, including Palenque, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Tuloom, Copan, and more. In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood--both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome--sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The Library's Serial and Government Publications Division maintains one of the most extensive collections of newspapers, current periodicals, comic books, and government publications. With over 25,000 non-US titles, it is the largest collection of international newspapers in the world. These materials are served in the Library's Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room.

The Library of Congress currently receives the following newspapers from Honduras, which does not include titles attained electronically. The materials linked below provide fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog, including holdings for each title.

La Tribuna
Call Number: Newspaper Microfilm 3108
Published/Created: Began 1977.
Online version: https://www.latribuna.hn/ External

While many newspapers are microfilmed, historic collections of newspapers are maintained in bound volumes to preserve the original format:

Honduras: Hispanic Reading Room Country Guide

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