My father has been writing/editing a book about Paraguay for the last year or so and today we received the first copies from the printers. So we have 3000 copies of the book in our garage waiting to be sold. It is a collection of essays and photographs covering all aspects of Paraguayan history, culture and wildlife celebrating 200 years of Paraguayan independence.
Not a lot of books have been written about Paraguay in the English language and some of the ones that do exist are very academic often focussing on a sometime very obscure feature of Paraguayan history. But Paraguay 200 is an easy read with lots of interesting pictures (some of which were taken by me) separated into clearly defined sections.
We don’t expect to sell an enormous amount of them in the short term but hopefully we will sell a few each month over the next few years. You can order it from the books own website Paraguay200.com
Paraguay is a country that is too often misunderstood and there is not a lot of good information out there about it. As a result many people have not ever heard of it and it is easily forgotten about by travellers when planning their itinerary. But it really is the lack of information that is causing this and by no means a lack of interesting things to see and do. This is changing though and Paraguay is making more of a name for itself. Recently Bradt travel guides bought out the first ever travel guide for Paraguay and hopefully that along with this book will be the first of many steps to putting Paraguay on the map.
