Bolivia   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $85, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXBOL14)		  
Bolivia in Focus  •  Paul van Lindert  •  Otto Verkoren
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2009 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES
Essential reading for any traveler to Bolivia, this concise book offers a synopsis of Bolivian politics and economy, history and culture. It's especially strong on economic changes, political upheaval and collapse of the mining industry in the 1980s, but also includes a good short summary of traditional culture and history from colonial times to the present. It's an excellent synopsis, left-leaning, and strong on facts. (BOL05, $17.00)		   Bolivia in Focus
Culture Smart! Bolivia  •  Keith Richards
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 168 PAGES
A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice (BOL26, $9.95)		   Culture Smart! Bolivia
Lines in the Water, Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca  •  Benjamin Orlove
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2002 •  PAPER  • 287 PAGES
An illuminating personal account of life in the Andean highlands by an anthropologist who has lived and worked in Bolivia and Peru over the past three decades. With photographs by the author and the usual scholarly paraphernalia. Orlove is especially interested in the relationship of the lake-dwelling fishermen to their environment. (BOL18, $26.95)		   Lines in the Water, Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca
Devil in the Mountain  •  Simon Lamb
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2006 •  PAPER  • 335 PAGES
A personable memoir of geology and geological field work in the Bolivian Andes. It's a terrific book, not just for its insights into Bolivia, but also for its contribution to understanding how our planet works. (BOL19, $24.95)		   Devil in the Mountain
Bolivia Map  •  ITMB
2008 •  MAP
A color map of the country at a scale of 1:1,250,000. Includes place index. Two Sides. 39x27 inches. (BOL11, $12.95)		   Bolivia Map



Also Recommended

A Concise History of Bolivia  •  Herbert Klein   • HISTORY  •  From prehistory through independence, return of democracy in 1982, and current politics, this is an excellent survey of the Andean nation. (BOL12, $27.99)
 		  
Conquest of the Incas  •  John Hemming   • HISTORY  •  This classic prize-winning history of the Inca struggle against the Spanish invasion weaves wide-ranging scholarly material in to a gripping narrative. (AND04, $25.00)
 		  
I Am Rich Potosi, The Mountain that Eats Men  •  Stephen Ferry  •  Eduardo Galeano   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A gorgeous color photo essay focusing on the people and history of Potosi, a silver center in the Bolivian highlands. (BOL09, $45.00)
 		  
Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830  •  Robert Harvey   • HISTORY  •  Focused on the heroism and derring-do of seven legendary men, Harvey tells the story of Simon Bolivar, General Jose de San Martin and other greats in the fight for independence. (SAM35, $18.95)
 		  
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent  •  Eduardo Galeano  •  Cedric Belfrage   • HISTORY  •  The most wrenchingly beautiful history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America ever written. President Obama has a copy, compliments of Hugo Chavez. (AND26, $18.00)
 		  
Whispering in the Giant's Ear, A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization  •  William Powers   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An aid worker gives an eye-opening account of the economic and political stuggle in Bolivia. (BOL20, $24.95)
 		  
Art of the Andes, from Chavin to Inca  •  Rebecca Stone-Miller   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  This authoritative and concise illustrated survey of Andean art and architecture covers not only Machu Picchu and additional Inca monuments, but also Chan Chan, Nasca and other archaeological sites and cultures. (PRU05, $19.95)
 		  
Sun After Dark, Flights into the Foreign  •  Pico Iyer   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A splendid collection of reports from the field, ranging from Bolivia to Cambodia, Tibet and Arabia, by the engaging Pico Iyer -- an inveterate traveler and talker, pulling in people and encounters in settings that range from the Altiplano to the Arabian desert and Easter Island. (TVL33, $15.00)
 		  
The Lost City of Z  •  David Grann   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW  •  In this riveting, real-life adventure, New Yorker writer and middle-aged Brooklynite Grann sets out into the wild to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century" -- the fate of British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925. (AMZ117, $15.95)
 		  
The Motorcycle Diaries, Notes on a Latin American Journey  •  Ann Wright  •  Ernesto Che Guevara   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The adventures of the 23-year-old Ernesto "Che" Guevara, as he wanders through South America in 1952 with his companion Alberto Granado, before he became a famed revolutionary. (SAM20, $14.95)
 		  
City of Silver, A Mystery  •  Annamaria Alfieri   • LITERATURE  •  Mother Maria Santa Hilda, Abess of the convent of Santa Isabella de los Santos Milagros in Potosi is at the center of this satisfying, suspenseful tale, richly set in the 17th-century Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. The source of Spanish silver, Potosi was once the largest and wealthiest city in the Americas. (BOL27, $14.95)
 		  
Juan de la Rosa, Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement  •  Nataniel Aguirre  •  Sergio Gabriel Waisman   • LITERATURE  •  A Bolivian classic, first published in 1885, whose octogenarian narrator looks back on his youth as a soldier in the South American Independence Movement. It's a historical novel on a grand scale. (BOL14, $39.99)
 		  
The Fat Man from La Paz, Contemporary Fiction from Bolivia  •  Rosario Santos   • ANTHOLOGY • COMING IN  •  Twenty stories by Bolivian authors, many of them little-known in the United States. This anthology reveals much about the culture, politics and daily lives of Bolivians over the past 50 years. (BOL17, $16.95)
 		  
A Neotropical Companion  •  John Kricher  •  Mark Plotkin   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  From plants and animals to birds and bugs, it's all here in this wonderfully written overview of the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America. (GPS11, $35.00)
 		  
Birds of Peru  •  Tom Schulenberg  •  Dan Stotz  •  John O'Neill  •  Dan Lane   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Gorgeously illustrated, this authoritative guide covers nearly 20% of the world's birds. (PRU55, $39.50)
 		  
Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica  •  Martin D. la Pena  •  Maurice Rumboll   • FIELD GUIDE  •  With color plates, range maps and brief descriptions, this is a compact regional guide. (SAM12, $29.95)
 		  
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide  •  L.H. Emmons   • FIELD GUIDE  •  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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