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Bolivia in Focus

Bolivia in Focus

by Paul van Lindert | Otto Verkoren

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 144 PAGES

Essential reading for any traveler to Bolivia, this up-to-date pocket guide introduces the people, politics and culture of the region. (BOL05, $17.00)

Culture Smart! Bolivia

Culture Smart! Bolivia

by 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)

Lines in the Water, Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca

Lines in the Water, Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca

by Benjamin Orlove

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 287 PAGES

With the author's photographs and reflections on the relationship of the lake-dwelling fishermen to their environment, this is an illuminating personal account of life in the Andean highlands. (BOL18, $26.95)

Devil in the Mountain

Devil in the Mountain

by Simon Lamb

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 335 PAGES

This personable memoir of geology and geological field work in the Bolivian Andes is a terrific book, not just for its insights into Bolivia, but also for its contribution to understanding how our planet works. (BOL19, $24.95)

Bolivia Map

Bolivia Map

by ITMB

  • 2008
  • MAP

A traveler's map at a scale of 1:1,250,000. (BOL11, $12.95)

 
A Concise History of Bolivia

A Concise History of Bolivia


by Herbert Klein

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 360 PAGES

From prehistory through independence, return of democracy in 1982, and current politics, this is an excellent survey of the Andean nation. (BOL12, $25.99)

Conquest of the Incas

Conquest of the Incas


by John Hemming

  • HISTORY
  • 1970
  • PAPER
  • 641 PAGES

This classic prize-winning history of the Inca struggle against the Spanish invasion brings together wide-ranging scholarly material in the interests of telling a good story. (AND04, $25.00)

I Am Rich Potosi, The Mountain that Eats Men

I Am Rich Potosi, The Mountain that Eats Men


by Stephen Ferry | Eduardo Galeano

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1999
  • HARD COVER
  • 156 PAGES

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

Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830


by Robert Harvey

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 561 PAGES

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

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent


by Eduardo Galeano | Cedric Belfrage

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 317 PAGES

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

Whispering in the Giant's Ear, A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization


by William Powers

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

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

Art of the Andes, from Chavin to Inca


by Rebecca Stone-Miller

  • ARCHAEOLOGY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

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

Sun After Dark, Flights into the Foreign


by Pico Iyer

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

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

The Lost City of Z


by David Grann

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES
  • 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

The Motorcycle Diaries, Notes on a Latin American Journey


by Ann Wright | Ernesto Che Guevara

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 175 PAGES

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

City of Silver, A Mystery


by Annamaria Alfieri

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 317 PAGES

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


by Nataniel Aguirre | Sergio Gabriel Waisman

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

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

The Fat Man from La Paz, Contemporary Fiction from Bolivia


by Rosario Santos

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 314 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

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

A Neotropical Companion


by John Kricher | Mark Plotkin

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 536 PAGES

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

Birds of Peru


by Tom Schulenberg | Dan Stotz | John O'Neill | Dan Lane

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 668 PAGES

Gorgeously illustrated, this authoritative guide covers nearly 20% of the world's birds. (PRU55, $39.50)

Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica

Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica


by Martin D. la Pena | Maurice Rumboll

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

With color plates, range maps and brief descriptions, this is a compact regional guide. (SAM12, $29.95)

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide


by L.H. Emmons

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 298 PAGES

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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