Latin American History Coloring Book - a Surprise Castle exclusive

24 hand-illustrated scenes from five centuries of Latin American history, from a Spanish landing party to a jungle independence rebellion.

Empires arrive. Republics rise. Color the long arc.

A hand-drawn adult coloring book, 24 scenes that run from colonial fortresses and silver mines to revolutionary liberators and Inca calendar towers. The pace is set by the slow drag of a stone block up a Mayan terrace and the long climb of a mountain mining trail, not the next notification.

Step into a colonial coastal settlement with arriving ships, soldiers in striped uniforms, and a brick fortress. Walk to a military encampment of canvas tents and a campfire under plumed hats. Pull up to a mountain settlement of stone churches and llamas grazing in the plaza. Then to an Incan high-altitude site of two women discussing crops near bowls of maize.

The pages keep moving. A colonial city plaza with ornate churches and citizens in period dress. An oil field with derricks and workers. An agricultural plantation with palm trees and harvesters. A mountain mining operation with cable system and tunnel.

Wander through the centuries. A jungle rebel scene with rifles and a flag. An independence celebration with mounted leader and torches. A colonial street parade with woman on horseback. A fort courtyard with soldiers under flags.

Keep going. A military commander before an indigenous pyramid. A religious procession with priests and a Virgin Mary icon. A jungle revolutionary with raised machete. A first-contact scene of European explorer meeting an indigenous chief on a beach. A Catholic mission scene with priest and indigenous students. A colonial city center with cathedral and cavalry. A great cathedral construction with crane and stone blocks. A Machu Picchu citadel under moonlight with astronomers. A mountain settlement of buildings cascading down slopes. A revolutionary signing a constitution. A railway being driven through the pampas. A Carnival of independence in Buenos Aires. A 20th-century coup in a smoke-filled square. A Liberation Theology congregation gathering. A modern protest with banners on a colonial plaza. And to close, a national football celebration spilling into a city center, decades of history pulsing in the streets.

There's a reason coloring sticks around. It gives a busy mind somewhere to land, and in this case that somewhere is the buttress of a colonial cathedral or the angle of an Andean terrace. Some pages are bold and forgiving. Others will eat a whole afternoon. Works fine with colored pencils, fine-tip markers, or gel pens.

If you know someone with shelves of Eduardo Galeano, a friend writing a thesis on Bolívar, or anyone who's been chasing a trip to Cuzco for years, this is for them. It's also for the person who'd quietly rather shade Machu Picchu on a Saturday than scroll.

Raise the standard.

Inside you'll find 24 scenes: a colonial coastal landing with brick fortress, a military encampment with tents and campfire, an Andean stone-church settlement with llamas, an Incan high-altitude crop discussion, a colonial city plaza with churches, an oil-field industrial scene, an agricultural plantation, a mountain mining operation, a jungle rebel scene with flag, an independence celebration with torches, a colonial street parade with woman on horse, a fort courtyard with soldiers, a commander before an indigenous pyramid, a religious procession with Virgin Mary icon, a jungle revolutionary with machete, a first-contact beach scene, a Catholic mission with indigenous students, a colonial city center with cathedral, a cathedral under construction, a Machu Picchu astronomy scene, a cascading mountain settlement, a revolutionary signing a constitution, a pampas railway, a Buenos Aires Carnival, a 20th-century coup, a Liberation Theology congregation, a modern colonial-plaza protest, and a national football celebration.