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	Rough Guide Guatemala  •   Rough Guide GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 511 PAGES A comprehensive guide, our favorite for Guatemala, with good cultural information and the best overview of where to go and what to do throughout the country. It's got consistently more -- and more accurate -- information on markets, towns and excursions than the competition. The contexts section at the back of the book, with historical and cultural information, is equally as strong. With sections on Copan and the Honduran Bay Islands. (CAM89, $21.99)
	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)
	Maya Art and Architecture  •  Mary Ellen Miller ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES Organized thematically, this book by Yale art historian Mary Ellen Miller surveys the art and architecture throughout Mayadom. She makes use of the latest discoveries at Tikal, Copan Palenque and other Maya sites to present the range of art from architecture, to sculpture, ceramics and murals. The text is much enhanced by 200 illustrations, 50 in color, including site plans, maps, strikingly rendered reconstructions and color photographs of key temples and buildings. For the traveler interested in better understanding Maya art -- and particularly the glyphs featured on Maya sculpture -- we couldn't recommend this book more highly. (MYA20, $19.95)
	Lost Cities of the Maya  •  Claude Baudez  •  Sydney Picasso ARCHAEOLOGY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 175 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE A pocket guide to Maya archaeology. This lavishly illustrated small book features hundreds of color photographs and illustrations -- along with excerpts from key works and a brief guide to Maya arithmetic, their calendar and inscriptions. (MYA01, $12.95)
	Central America Map  •   ITMB 2008 •  MAP Produced for the traveler, this detailed, double-sided map gives an overview of the whole Central American isthmus at a scale of 1:1,100,000. Two Sides. 26x40 inches. (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)
	Guatemala in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture  •  Trisha O'Kane   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim guide focuses on the history of Guatemala, its cultural heritage and current political, environmental and economic challenges. An excellent synopsis from an unabashedly left-leaning perspective. (GML04, $12.95)
	Moon Handbook Nicaragua  •  Josh Berman   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
	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, $21.95)
	Bitter Fruit, The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala  •  Stephen Schlesinger  •  Stephen Kinzer   • HISTORY  •  A foreign policy classic first published in 1982, brilliantly written and devastating in its implications. Schlesinger and Kinzer provide a dramatic account of the CIA-backed overthrow of Guatemala's democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. (CAM82, $22.95)
	Forgotten Continent, The Battle for Latin America's Soul  •  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)
	Unfinished Conquest, The Guatemalan Tragedy  •  Daniel Chauche  •  Victor Perera   • HISTORY  •  An oral history of devastating 30-year civil war; Perera interviewed hundreds of people for this astonishing book, not only the resilient Maya but also landowners, government officials, military personnel and clergy. (CAM83, $29.95)
	An Album of Maya Architecture  •  Tatiana Proskouriakoff   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Scholar, artist and architect Proskouriakoff presents breathtaking artistic reconstructions of what Maya cities may have looked like in their heyday in this classic work, first published in 1946. (MYA06, $19.95)
	Breaking the Maya Code  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Mayan hieroglyphs were a linguistic puzzle until the 1952 breakthrough translation of a Mayan bark-paper text, as Coe explains in this history. The book also includes an extensive discussion of Maya studies and political activism in the wake of the linguistic discovery. (MYA30, $19.95)
	The Maya  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A clear, concise and up-to-date introduction to Maya archaeology and culture by a leading authority. Now in its seventh edition, this volume in the "Ancient Peoples and Places" series highlights the chronology, accomplishments and legacy of the Maya. (MYA10, $24.95)
	Guatemalan Journey  •  Stephen Connely Benz   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Opening with a long chapter on life in Guatemala City, Benz's memoir moves on to the remote highlands and other little-visited regions. An excellent account of Guatemala's political history, traditions, and indigenous cultures. (GML03, $19.95)
	The Jaguar Smile, A Nicaraguan Journey  •  Salman Rushdie   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
	Time Among the Maya, Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico  •  Ronald Wright   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Wright combines journalism, archaeology and an ear for dialogue in this engaging account of travels among the contemporary Maya. (CAM84, $16.00)
	Travelers' Tales Central America  •  Larry Habegger  •  Natanya Pearlman   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Organized thematically with contributions set in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, this collection of eyewitness reports includes Joan Didion, P.J. O'Rourke and Paul Theroux. (CAM96, $17.95)
	Antigua and My Life Before  •  Marcela Serrano  •  Margaret Sayers Peden   • LITERATURE  •  Set in Santiago, Chile, and the Guatemalan city of Antigua, this is the story of two women --- one a famous singer, the other an artist/architect -- and a tragic shooting that sparks off memories of their friendship. (CRB121, $14.00)
	Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life  •  Dennis Tedlock   • LITERATURE  •  The definitive, unabridged collection of creation myths and stories of the Quiche people, fundamental to understanding the worldview of the highland Maya. (MYA14, $16.99)
	Spirits of the Jaguar  •   BBC   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A four-part BBC television series, this documentary presents the land, wildlife and cultures of Central America in living color. (CAM59, $19.98)
	Tropical Nature  •  Adrian Forsyth  •  Ken Miyata   • NATURAL HISTORY • 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. (GPS13, $16.00)
	A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America & Southeast Mexico  •  Fiona Reid   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This second edition of Fiona Reid's wonderfully detailed and comprehensive field guide to the mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico features 59 vivid full-color illustrations. Reid painted most of the creatures in the field, a formidable challenge and -- given the quality of the results -- well worth her while. With parks, and protected areas, habitats, range maps, tracks and natural history. (CAM60, $59.95)
	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)
	Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya, A Guide  •  Victoria Schlesinger   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive guide to the natural and cultural history of 100 plants and animals of the Maya world, primarily those from the lowland tropical forest of Central America but also including savanna, mangrove and coral reef habitats. (MYA29, $29.95)
	Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide  •  L.H. Emmons   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Compact enough to slip into your daypack, this guide to the mammals of the New World tropics features 29 color plates of more than 200 species. (GPS12, $39.00)

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