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Trekking in the Patagonian Andes
Carolyn McCarthy
GUIDEBOOK 2009 PAPER 308 PAGES
This convenient guide features trail maps and route descriptions of walks throughout Patagonia, including a long sections on Torres del Paine in Chile and Glacier National Park in Argentina. With detailed practical information, color photography, 31 maps and good background on preparing for your trek. Third edition.
(PAT12, $24.99)
In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 1989 PAPER 204 PAGES
FAVORITE
A masterpiece of travel, history and adventure. This award-winning book captures the spirit of the land, history, wildlife and people of Patagonia. There's no travel writer as engaging, insightful and just plain wonderful as Bruce Chatwin.
(PAT01, $15.00)
Natural Patagonia, Argentina and Chile
Marcelo D. Beccaceci
NATURAL HISTORY 1998 PAPER 124 PAGES
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
An informative photographic journey through the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife of Patagonia, featuring 120 color photographs. With text in Spanish and English.
(PAT22, $24.95)
Los Glaciares National Park
Zagier & Urruty Maps
2004 MAP
A colorful map of Perito Moreno, El Calafate, Lago Argentino and other popular areas of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares at a scale of 1:230,000. With spot elevations, roads, towns and points of interest. Paintings of typical birds and mammals are scattered along the edges of the map. While the map would be more useful if it had been printed on sturdier paper with topography and, especially, a more detailed inset of popular trekking around El Calafate, it's not a bad souvenir and overview of the region. One Side. 39x27 inches.
(PAT58, $14.95)
Altitude Illness: Prevention and Treatment, How to Stay Healthy at Altitude
Stephen Bezruchka
REFERENCE
Bezruchka, a mountaineer and M.D., includes case studies, frequently asked questions and simple methods of diagnosis and treatment in this indispensable pocket guide.
(REF02, $8.95)
Insight Guide Argentina
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This handsome guide is a profusely illustrated overview of the country, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture. With hun-dreds of photos and excellent maps.
(ARG02, $23.99)
Lonely Planet Buenos Aires
Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK
An excellent practical guide to Buenos Aires with a pullout map and detailed practical information on neighborhoods, shopping, eating, sleeping and day trips out of the city.
(ARG10, $18.99)
Eric Shipton, The Six Mountain Travel Books
Eric Shipton
EXPLORATION
Shipton's extraordinary adventures in the mountains of the Himalayas, East Africa, Central Asia and Patagonia.
(EXP12, $38.00)
Far Away and Long Ago
W.H. Hudson
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are rich with descriptions of landscapes, birds and nature.
(SAM11, $34.95)
H. W. Tilman, The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
H. W. Tilman
EXPLORATION
This omnibus edition of Tilman's brilliant, marvelous accounts of high altitude adventure includes The Ascent of Nanda Devi.
(HML94, $24.95)
Rounding the Horn
Dallas Murphy
EXPLORATION
A sailor at heart, Dallas Murphy gets himself down to Ushuaia, embarks a sturdy vessel and heads out to experience the wind and weather of Tierra del Fuego. In his informative account, Dallas interweaves plenty of history, a little rather naive politics and the story of his own adventures.
(PAT65, $16.95)
The Old Patagonian Express
Paul Theroux
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Combining history, anecdote and acutely observed detail on people and place, Theroux begins his journey on a Boston subway car and works his way south via rail, plane and truck to the Patagonian railroad in this enthralling narrative.
(PAT08, $15.95)
Voyaging, Southward from the Strait of Magellan
Rockwell Kent
EXPLORATION
An illustrated account of Rockwell's foolhardy voyage with a madman through magnificent Tierra del Fuego in a jury-rigged lifeboat. Both the text and striking woodcut illustrations communicate this dangerous landscape's dynamic character.
(CHI29, $19.95)
Night Flight
Antoine de Saint Exupery
LITERATURE
Saint Exupery captures the thrill and mystery of early flight in this tale of a pilot alone in a storm over the Andes en route to Buenos Aires.
(PAT09, $12.00)
The Far Side of the World
Patrick O'Brian
LITERATURE
O'Brian takes readers on an adventure around Cape Horn in this enthralling Aubrey and Maturin tale, featuring evocative descriptions of the wildlife of Patagonia and Galapagos and a vivid portrait of Nelson's British Navy.
(SAM01, $14.95)
Glacier Ice
Austin Post
Edward R. LaChapelle
NATURAL HISTORY
A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted men of ice. Ed LaChapelle's text is paired with Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers from Alaska and Chile to Switzerland, the Himalayas and other parts of the world.
(SCI07, $27.95)
The Andes, As the Condor Flies
Tui De Roy
NATURAL HISTORY
OUT OF PRINT
These 350 stunning photographs take in the full sweep of the Andes, its wildlife and landscapes, from the cloud forests of Ecuador and altiplano to windswept Tierra del Fuego.
(SAM79, $35.00)
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)
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