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SOUTHWIND ADVENTURES
Peruvian Amazon
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 4 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPRU78) |
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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) |
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One River, Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon
• Wade Davis
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 537 PAGES
Wade Davis has written a lyrical, meticulously researched book of discovery. One River is both a biography of his mentor, the director of the Harvard botanical museum Richard Schultes, and the story of his own botanical adventures throughout South America with colleague Tim Plowman. It's a sprawling tale of explorers, botanical secrets, and larger-than-life personalities. This unconventional book is, in part, a testimonial to Schultes, a legendary teacher and explorer who single-handedly created the discipline of ethnobotany. More than that, it's a magnificently written chronicle of five decades of botanical exploration (including some pretty wild experiments with native hallucinogens).
(AMZ22, $18.00) |
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A Neotropical Companion
• John Kricher
• Mark Plotkin
NATURAL HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 536 PAGES
A tropical primer aimed at the motivated general reader. It's a systematic overview of the ecology, habitats, animals, plants and ecosystems of Central and South America. For those not put off by Latin names and concepts like Batesian mimicry, this handbook is a great introduction to the region.
(GPS11, $35.00) |
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Peru Map
• Borch Maps
2011 •
MAP
A detailed laminated relief map of Peru at a scale of 1:1,750,000. This is a very clear, colorful map, which also features detailed insets of Lima and Cusco, and even a site plan of Maccu Picchu. Peru itself is broken into three sections: North, Central, South. Two Sides. 20x39 inches.
(PRU02, $10.95) |
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Also Recommended
Insight Guide Peru
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Panoramic in scope, this illustrated overview brings Peru to life in hundreds of color photographs and vivid essays by a team of experts writing on history, archaeology and culture.
(PRU01, $22.99)
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Jungle Travel and Survival
• John Walden, M.D.
• GUIDEBOOK
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Medical doctor and frequent Amazon-traveler Walden provides useful advice on avoiding malaria, parasites, poisonous and dangerous animals, dehydration and much more in this compact guide.
(AMZ73, $18.95)
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The Burning Season:The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
• Andrew Revkin
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A riveting non-fiction murder mystery: the story of Chico Mendes, a rubber industry union organizer killed in the Brazilian Amazon River town of Xapuri in 1988.
(AMZ08, $30.00)
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The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest, Stories from a Vanishing World
• Nigel J.H. Smith
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A wonderfully presented collection of observations from the Amazon, this is a good introduction to the people, culture and geography of the rain forest.
(AMZ26, $29.95)
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Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
• Peter Matthiessen
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del Fuego.
(SAM02, $17.00)
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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
• William Herndon
• Gary Kinder
• EXPLORATION
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An original account of 19th-century exploration of the Amazon by Captain Herndon, who traveled from Lima to the Pacific coast of Brazil.
(AMZ67, $14.00)
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In Trouble Again
• Redmond O'Hanlon
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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As funny as he is insightful, O'Hanlon starts his comic masterpiece of a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon with a litany of the insects, protozoa, snakes and predators that can do you harm.
(AMZ04, $13.95)
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La Doctora, The Journal of an American Doctor Practicing Medicine of the Amazon River
• Linnea Smith
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An insightful collection of letters home to America from a doctor at an Amazonian jungle clinic for education and research.
(AMZ43, $16.95)
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Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology
• Margaret Lowman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The sprightly memoir of an ecologist who climbs, studies and sleeps in trees for a living, balancing multiple roles of scientist, wife and mom. Margaret Lowman, a pioneer in the ecology of forest tree canopies, continues her story in a second memoir (written with her now-grown sons).
(AMZ57, $13.95)
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Running the Amazon
• Joe Kane
• EXPLORATION
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A best-selling account of a 4,000-mile expedition from the high Andes to the Atlantic by foot, raft and kayak -- an expedition only four of the ten participants finished.
(AMZ13, $14.95)
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
• Mark Plotkin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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In this marvelous book, Plotkin recounts his work documenting the use of medicinal plants among remote tribes in the Northwest Amazon of Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana and French Guiana. A portrait of people and their environment, a tale of adventure and, most of all, a moving example of science in the service of preservation.
(AMZ15, $16.00)
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White Waters and Black
• Gordon McCreagh
• George Schaller
• EXPLORATION
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A classic account of a two-year-long scientific expedition to the Bolivian Amazon, funny, sweet and thrilling. Originally published in 1923.
(AMZ70, $17.50)
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Birds of Tropical America
• Steven Hilty
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Hilty serves up essays on how to find and better appreciate the dizzying variety of birds, their habits and habitats, diversity and distribution.
(CAM39, $25.00)
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In Amazonia, A Natural History
• Hugh Raffles
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An intriguing look at the intertwined history of people and nature in the Amazon. Academic yet still artful, Raffles focuses on a small Brazilian riverine community and the transformation of their river over the last 50 years.
(AMZ85, $33.95)
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Jungles
• Frans Lanting
• Christine Eckstrom
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The wildlife of Central America, the Congo, Amazon, Borneo and Madagascar are all featured in this portfolio of 120 extraordinary color photographs.
(AMZ65, $19.99)
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The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon
• Michael Goulding
• Ronaldo Barthem
• Efrem Ferreira
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This beautiful, profusely illustrated atlas of the river includes its major tributaries and 150 full-color maps. Goulding (Floods of Fortune) and Brazilian biologists Barthem and Ferreira provide the accompanying text.
(AMZ82, $39.95)
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A Field Guide to Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon
• James L. Castner
• Stephen L. Timme
• James A. Duke
• FIELD GUIDE
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A photographic identification guide focusing on the practical uses of common plants of the tropical forest.
(AMZ39, $38.00)
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Amazon Insects - A Photo Guide
• James L. Castner
• FIELD GUIDE
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Spectacular, weird and commonly encountered bugs, butterflies, katydids, leafhoppers, ants, bees, spiders and other insects of the Amazon basin. Geared for the traveler, with 200 color photographs.
(AMZ63, $20.00)
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Birds of Ecuador, A Field Guide
• Paul Greenfield
• Robert Ridgely
• FIELD GUIDE
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A comprehensive, gorgeous and exhaustively researched field guide to the birds of Ecuador (and adjacent countries), featuring 96 color plates. It's also the best bird guide for travelers in the Peruvian Amazon.
(EDR08, $55.00)
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Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide
• L.H. Emmons
• FIELD GUIDE
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Compact enough to slip into your daypack, this field guide to the mammals of the New World tropics features 29 color plates of more than 200 species.
(GPS12, $42.50)
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Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon
• R.D. Bartlett
• Patricia Bartlett
• FIELD GUIDE
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A convenient guide to 250 colorful and commonly encountered snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs and salamanders of the Amazon.
(AMZ84, $29.95)
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