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Wonders of the Amazon
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Tree of Rivers, The Story of the Amazon
• John Hemming
HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
Hemming (Conquest of the Incas) draws on a lifetime of study in this absorbing history of the river, capturing the ambition, greed and awe of naturalists, explorers and missionaries -- and, most poignantly, the plight and exploitation of Amazonian peoples.
(AMZ114, $24.95) |
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The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon
• Michael Goulding
• Ronaldo Barthem
• Efrem Ferreira
NATURAL HISTORY •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 254 PAGES
An illustrated atlas of the 4000-mile-long river, including its major tributaries, with 150 full color maps and 300 photographs. Michael Goulding (Floods of Fortune) and Brazilian biologists Ronaldo Barthem and Efrem Ferreira provide the accompanying text. Organized geographically, with chapters on major tributaries and drainage basins in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.
(AMZ82, $39.95) |
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Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology
• Margaret Lowman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2000 •
PAPER
• 219 PAGES
The sprightly memoir of a biologist who, with her feet planted firmly on the ground, took to the trees in 1979. A pioneer in the ecology of forest tree canopies, Meg Lowman climbs, studies and sleeps in trees for a living. She's also a popular lecturer on trips to the Amazon and Director of Research and Conservation at Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota. She's remarkably frank in this engaging memoir about balancing her multiple roles as as scientist, woman, wife and mom.
(AMZ57, $13.95) |
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Brazil: Amazon & Pantanal, Travellers' Wildlife Guides
• Les Beletsky
• David Pearson
FIELD GUIDE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 491 PAGES
A comprehensive guide and handbook to the flora, fauna and habitats of Brazil, with a focus on the Amazon and Pantanal. An Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide, the book features color illustrations of commonly encountered birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects. The 100 color plates feature 90 species of amphibians and reptiles, 310 birds, 70 mammals, 30 insects and 50 common trees and plants. Second Edition.
(BZL30, $29.95) |
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Amazon Map
• Nelles
2009 •
MAP
With inset maps of Belem, Manaus and Iquitos, this colorful double-sided map (1:2.5 million) shows both detail and the expanse of the great river basin from the Andes to the Atlantic. Two Sides. 20x31 inches.
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Culture Smart! Brazil
• Sandra Branco
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(BZL54, $9.95)
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Culture Smart! Peru
• John Forrest
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(PRU64, $9.95)
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Insight Guide Brazil
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A profusely illustrated overview of the country, this guide features concise essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture. With hundreds of photos and maps.
(BZL01, $22.99)
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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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Fitzcarraldo
• Werner Herzog
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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This epic portrays Fitzcarraldo's mad quest to haul a riverboart over the Andes and realize his dream of an opera house in the Amazon.
(AMZ119, $34.98)
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Lilias Yoga Complete: A Comprehensive Course for Students of Any Level
• Lilias M. Folan
• SPORT
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Now available on CD, this comprehensive program by yoga guru Folan guides practitioners, step by step, through the art of total mind-body wellness.
(SPT12, $19.95)
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River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
• Candice Millard
• HISTORY
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Millard captures the suspense and the setting in vivid detail in this chronicle of Roosevelt's calamitous, ill-prepared Amazon expedition.
(AMZ96, $15.00)
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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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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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The Naturalist on the River Amazons
• Henry Walter Bates
• EXPLORATION
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A spell-binding early account of the river and its environs, first published in 1863. This classic chronicle of Bates's scientific adventures, part natural history and part travelogue, has inspired generations of tropical biologists.
(AMZ07, $17.95)
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The Sea and the Jungle
• H.M. Tomlinson
• EXPLORATION
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First published in 1912, this is a thoroughly unromanticized, absorbing account of a 2,000-mile journey by steamship deep into the Amazon. Understated and often hilarious.
(AMZ10, $18.00)
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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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One River, Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon
• Wade Davis
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A spellbinding, sprawling tale of explorers, botanical secrets, and larger-than-life personalities in northwest South America.
(AMZ22, $18.00)
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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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The Lost City of Z
• David Grann
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• NEW
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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)
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The Mapmaker's Wife
• Robert Whitaker
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Colonial politics, the travails of the cartographer, and good old-fashioned murder all add intrigue to this absorbing tale of 18th-century European exploration of the Amazon -- and one woman's quest heading from Quito to find her husband deep in the jungle.
(AMZ97, $16.00)
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Little Tiny Teeth
• Aaron J. Elkins
• MYSTERY
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From the Edgar Award-winning author of Unnatural Selection comes this mystery to chill the bones. When a forensics professor joins an Amazon riverboat expedition, he expects a vacation. But in a jungle full of predators, he realizes the humans may be the deadliest of all.
(AMZ105, $7.99)
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It's a Jungle Up There, More Tales from the Treetops
• Margaret Lowman
• James Burgess
• Edward Burgess
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This engaging globe-skipping chronicle takes the tropical ecologist and her now-grown sons James and Edward to Samoa, West Africa, Peru, Panama, India and other great habitats.
(NAT92, $30.00)
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Journey of the Pink Dolphins, An Amazon Quest
• Sy Montgomery
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this magical, mystical journey in the Brazilian Amazon, Montgomery (Spell of the Tiger) sets off with river guides, shamans and conservationists in search of the strange bouto, a beaked dolphin that inhabits much of the Amazon and Orinoco river drainages.
(AMZ61, $19.95)
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Our Daily Meds
• Melody Peterson
• SCIENCE
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The New York Times joournlist connects the dots to show how subtle, far-reaching and dangerous Big Pharma's powers have become.
(SCI284, $17.00)
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The Genie in Your Genes, Epigenetic Medicine and the New Bilogy of Intention
• Dawson, Ph.D. Church
• SCIENCE
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Church presents new discoveries in the field of Epigenetics, which offers possibilities for new medical therapies and new ideas about health.
(SCI283, $17.95)
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The Green Pharmacy
• James A. Duke
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An A-Z catalog of ailments and the herbal remedies that heal them.
(AMZ40, $21.95)
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The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs, A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals
• Leslie Taylor
• SCIENCE
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A guide to rainforest herbs and their uses, detailing more than fifty botanicals, their history and preparation instructions.
(NAT195, $23.95)
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The Truth About The Drug Companies, How They Deceive Us And What To Do About It
• Marcia Angell
• SCIENCE
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A medical doctor, Harvard lecturer and former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Angell brings experience and insight to this convincing indictment of an industry out of control.
(SCI285, $15.95)
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Tropical Nature
• Adrian Forsyth
• Ken Miyata
• NATURAL HISTORY
• FAVORITE
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A 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.
(GPS13, $16.00)
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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 Northern South America, Vol. 2: Field Guide
• Robin Restall
• Clemencia Rodner
• Roger Williams
• FIELD GUIDE
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This comprehensive field guide, featuring an astounding 6400 paintings and 2308 maps covers all the birds from Ecuador to Guiana.
(SAM103, $70.00)
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Birds of Peru
• Tom Schulenberg
• Dan Stotz
• John O'Neill
• Dan Lane
• FIELD GUIDE
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Gorgeously illustrated, this authoritative guide covers nearly 20% of the world's birds.
(PRU55, $39.50)
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Field Guide Birds of Brazil
• Ber Van Perlo
• FIELD GUIDE
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This comprehensive field guide features 187 beautiful full-color plates with 1796 species accounts, including a distribution map for each.
(BZL75, $39.95)
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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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