Mason travels restlessly far and wide over mountains, jungles, and pampas to make sense of the weird and wonderful modern world of Latin America, while examining the shadowy forces and bloody events of its past. Aided by colour photos and illustrations, he paints a vivid personalised picture of the lands that brought us the Inca and the Aztec, the condor and the jaguar, salsa and samba, a whole new concept of time-keeping. Politically sharp, historically informative, psychologically insightful, and above all, very funny.