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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $71, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCAM87)		  
Moon Handbook Nicaragua  •  Josh Berman
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 475 PAGES
A handy, practical guide to Nicaragua, this book is a good resource for planning a trip, featuring extensive, up-to-date listings, maps, volcano hikes, and other background information. (CAM110, $19.95)		   Moon Handbook Nicaragua
Nicaragua in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture  •  Hazel Plunkett
GUIDEBOOK •  2002 •  PAPER  • 100 PAGES
Essential reading for Nicaragua, this compact, illustrated travel guide focuses on politics, economy, history and culture. It's especially strong on the difficult history of relations with the U.S. but also includes a good short summary of traditional culture and history from colonial times to the present. It's an excellent overview, strong on facts and unabashedly left-of-center in outlook. (CAM71, $12.95)		   Nicaragua in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture
The Jaguar Smile, A Nicaraguan Journey  •  Salman Rushdie
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 160 PAGES
Rushdie's account of visit to the country at the height of the Contra war goes underneath the headlines. It's a cultural portrait -- simple, straightforward and "Written with a novelist's eye for irony," wrote the "New York Times." (CAM43, $14.00)		   The Jaguar Smile, A Nicaraguan Journey
Tropical Nature  •  Adrian Forsyth  •  Ken Miyata
NATURAL HISTORY •  1984 •  PAPER  • 248 PAGES • FAVORITE
A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its 17 marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. With a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler. (GPS13, $16.00)		   Tropical Nature
Nicaragua Map  •  ITMB
MAP
A map of Nicaragua at a scale of 1:750,000 with good topographic relief. One Side. 26x37 inches. (CAM74, $11.95)		  



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Central America Map  •  ITMB    •  A detailed map of the Central American isthmus at a scale of 1:1,100,000. (CAM20, $12.95)
 		  
Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish  •  Joseph Keenan   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Idioms, common mistakes in word usage, and other helpful advice on tackling spoken Spanish. You'll need some foundation to take full advantage of this book -- but even a complete novice will appreciate the author's playful sense of humor. (CAM06, $19.95)
 		  
Frommer's Nicaragua & El Salvador  •  Charlie O'Malley   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the popular series. (CAM155, $21.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Nicaragua  •  Paige Penland  •  Gary Chandler  •  Liza Prado   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide to Nicaragua features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on accommodations and sightseeing. (CAM116, $21.99)
 		  
The True History of Chocolate  •  Sophie D. Coe  •  Michael Coe   • FOOD  •  This scholarly history of pre-Columbian chocolate by these married archaeologists reveals chocolate's origins as a ceremonial beverage in ancient Olmec and Maya society. The Coes trace the treat's evolution from a food of the gods to the salons of Europe down through the masses to Hershey Pennsylvania. (CAM57, $21.95)
 		  
A Brief History of Central America  •  Hector Perez-Brignoll   • HISTORY  •  A good overview of the region's economic, political and social history through the 1980s by a professor at the University of Costa Rica. Well-written, informative and concise. (CAM49, $25.95)
 		  
Banana, The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World  •  Dan Koeppel   • HISTORY  •  Koeppel traces the history, natural and otherwise, politics and precarious current status of modern monoculture, touching down in India (world center of banana diversity), Ecuador (world's largest producer) and Central America. (CAM137, $16.00)
 		  
Bananas!  •  Fredrik Gertten   • HISTORY  •  Filmed in Nicaragua and in a LA courtroom, this documentary focuses on a highly publicized case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan plantation workers against Dole for using a banned pesticide. (CAM147, $29.99)
 		  
Forgotten Continent  •  Michael Reid   • HISTORY  •  Economist editor Reid draws on his years in the cities, presidential palaces and shantytowns of Central and South America in this portrait of a region rich in oil, farmland and culture, and its prospects in the face of globalization. (SAM123, $22.00)
 		  
Nicaragua, Living in the Shadow of the Eagle  •  Thomas Walker   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The fifth edition of Walker's invaluable portrait of the country, focusing on U.S. influence since the Somoza era and the Sandinista Revolution. (CAM122, $36.95)
 		  
The Country Under My Skin  •  Giaconda Belli   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The memoir of a young, upper-class Nicaraguan woman who joins the revolutionary Marxist Sandinistas while continuing to work her bourgeois day job at an advertising agency. (CAM117, $16.00)
 		  
Stories and Poems, A Dual-Language Book  •  Ruben Dario  •  Stanley Appelbaum   • LITERATURE  •  A selection of poems and stories by the beloved Nicaraguan writer, with Spanish and the English translation on facing pages. (CAM107, $14.95)
 		  
Nature of the Rainforest, Costa Rica and Beyond  •  Adrian Forsyth  •  E.O. Wilson  •  Michael Fogden   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Our favorite biologist-writer returns to the Neotropics in this beautifully illustrated, oversized overview of the rain forest. With chapters on Monteverde and Guanacaste, plants, frogs and snakes, birds, monkeys and jaguars, the sloth, peculiar insects and biodioversity, the book is a marvelous, anecdotal introduction to ecology, evolution and conservation. (CRC67, $29.95)
 		  
The Naturalist in Nicaragua  •  Thomas Belt  •  Daniel Janzen   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A reprint of the 1874 original by Thomas Belt, trained as an engineer, who lived four years in Nicaragua. Praised by Darwin and other Victorian luminaries, his classic account is a richly detailed natural history of the region. (CAM63, $19.99)
 		  
A Guide to the Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras  •  Robert Ridgely  •  J.A. Gwynne   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This comprehensive field guide, noteworthy for its beautiful color plates, covers additional species found in Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica. (CAM07, $55.00)
 		  
Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life  •  Paul Humann   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Humann's compact guide illustrates Caribbean fishes, corals, invertebrates and plants commonly encountered in shallower water. (DIV02, $14.95)
 		  
 
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