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Enrich your travels with reading! Here's a hand-picked list prepared for your journey in conjunction with the book experts at Longitude.

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Insight Guide Peru

by Insight Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 368 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

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, $24.99)

Tropical Nature

by Adrian Forsyth | Ken Miyata

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 1984
• PAPER
• 248 PAGES
• FAVORITE

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)

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, $39.95)

Peru Map

by Borch Maps

• 2011
• MAP

A laminated map of Peru with city plans. (PRU02, $10.95)

 

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The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest, Stories from a Vanishing World

by Nigel J.H. Smith

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1996
• HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES

A wonderfully presented collection of observations from the Amazon, this is a good introduction to the people, culture and geography of the rain forest. (AMZ26, $29.95)

The World as You Dream It, Shamanistic Teachings from the Amazon and Andes

by John M. Perkins

• RELIGION
• 1994
• PAPER
• 139 PAGES

A personal account of sometimes hard-to-believe experiences with curanderos (or shamans) in the highlands and Amazon of Ecuador. (AMZ46, $14.95)

Tree of Rivers, The Story of the Amazon

by John Hemming

• HISTORY
• 2009
• PAPER
• 368 PAGES

Hemming captures the ambition, greed and awe of naturalists, explorers and missionaries -- and their devastating impact on native peoples -- in this absorbing human history. (AMZ114, $24.95)

Vine of the Soul, Medicine Men, Their Plants, and Rituals in the Colombian Amazon

by Richard Evans Schultes | Robert F. Raffauf

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2004
• PAPER
• 282 PAGES

Written by Schultes, the father of ethnobotany, with a colleague, this book features 150 photographs along with a detailed and authoritative text describing the many uses of plant substances. (AMZ59, $29.95)

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon

by William Herndon | Gary Kinder

• EXPLORATION
• 2000
• PAPER
• 343 PAGES

An original account of 19th-century exploration of the Amazon by Captain Herndon, who traveled from Lima to the Pacific coast of Brazil. (AMZ67, $14.00)

Explorers of the Amazon

by Anthony Smith

• EXPLORATION
• 1994
• PAPER
• 344 PAGES

In this well told overview of the region, Anthony Smith presents a history of exploration of the Amazon, scientific and otherwise. (AMZ31, $37.50)

In Trouble Again

by Redmond O'Hanlon

• EXPLORATION
• 1990
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES
• FAVORITE

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)

Running the Amazon

by Joe Kane

• EXPLORATION
• 1990
• PAPER
• 278 PAGES

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)

The Sea and the Jungle

by H.M. Tomlinson

• EXPLORATION
• 1995
• PAPER
• 258 PAGES

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)

Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness

by Peter Matthiessen

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1987
• PAPER
• 280 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del Fuego. (SAM02, $17.00)

La Doctora, The Journal of an American Doctor Practicing Medicine of the Amazon River

by Linnea Smith

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 238 PAGES

An insightful collection of letters home to America from a doctor at an Amazonian jungle clinic for education and research. (AMZ43, $16.95)

Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology

by Margaret Lowman

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2000
• PAPER
• 219 PAGES

The sprightly memoir of an ecologist who climbs, studies and sleeps in trees for a living, balancing multiple roles of scientist, wife and mom. Margaret Lowman, a pioneer in the ecology of forest tree canopies, continues her story in a second memoir (written with her now-grown sons). (AMZ57, $13.95)

One River, Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon

by Wade Davis

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1997
• PAPER
• 537 PAGES

A spellbinding, sprawling tale of explorers, botanical secrets, and larger-than-life personalities in northwest South America. (AMZ22, $18.00)

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

by Mark Plotkin

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1994
• PAPER
• 328 PAGES
• FAVORITE

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)

Trail of Feathers, In Search of the Birdmen of Peru

by Tahir Shah

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2012
• PAPER
• 273 PAGES

Shah tracks down shamans, visits Machu Picchu, ventures out to Lake Titicaca, tackles the myths of the Nasca lines and takes hallucinogens with the Shuar in the Amazon in this rollicking search for the origins of Inca birdman legends. (PRU49, $14.95)

In Amazonia, A Natural History

by Hugh Raffles

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 302 PAGES

An intriguing look at the intertwined history of people and nature in the Amazon. Academic yet still artful, Raffles focuses on a small Brazilian riverine community and the transformation of their river over the last 50 years. (AMZ85, $33.95)

Jungles

by Frans Lanting | Christine Eckstrom

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2011
• HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES

The wildlife of Central America, the Congo, Amazon, Borneo and Madagascar are all featured in this portfolio of 120 extraordinary color photographs. (AMZ65, $19.99)

The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon

by Michael Goulding | Ronaldo Barthem | Efrem Ferreira

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2003
• HARD COVER
• 254 PAGES

This beautiful, profusely illustrated atlas of the river includes its major tributaries and 150 full-color maps. Goulding (Floods of Fortune) and Brazilian biologists Barthem and Ferreira provide the accompanying text. (AMZ82, $39.95)

A Field Guide to Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon

by James L. Castner | Stephen L. Timme | James A. Duke

• FIELD GUIDE
• 1998
• PAPER
• 154 PAGES

A photographic identification guide focusing on the practical uses of common plants of the tropical forest. (AMZ39, $38.00)

Amazon Insects - A Photo Guide

by James L. Castner

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2000
• PAPER
• 160 PAGES

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)

Birds of Ecuador, A Field Guide

by Paul Greenfield | Robert Ridgely

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2001
• PAPER
• 740 PAGES

A comprehensive, gorgeous and exhaustively researched field guide to the birds of Ecuador (and adjacent countries), featuring 96 color plates. It's also the best bird guide for travelers in the Peruvian Amazon. (EDR08, $55.00)

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, $45.00)

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)

Peru Mammals Guide

by Rainforest Publications

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2005
• PLASTIC CARD

A handy, double-sided laminated card depicting over 60 commonly encountered mammals of Peru. Beautiful and accurate full-color illustrations. (PRU73, $6.95)

Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon

by R.D. Bartlett | Patricia Bartlett

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2003
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

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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