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1491, New Revelations of Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
HISTORY
Mann portrays the successes and failures of the complex societies of the Mississippi River, central Mexico, the Andes and the Amazon in this thought-provoking speculative history of the Americas before the arrival of Europeans.
(WLD61, $15.95) |
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501 Spanish Verbs
Christopher Kendris
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
The perennial favorite among students of Spanish.
(GEN134, $16.99) |
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Adventure Guide To Peru
Nicholas Gill
GUIDEBOOK
(PRU87, $22.99) |
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Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors
Piers Paul Read
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The gripping tale of survival against all odds: a plane crashes in the Andes, all passengers presumed dead. Read tells the story of terrible hardship, bravery and horror with admirable restraint.
(AND38, $7.99) |
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America's First Cuisines
Sophie D. Coe
HISTORY
A marvelous survey of pre-Columbian food, crops and diet.
(AND64, $21.95) |
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Ancient Cuzco, Heartland of the Inca
Brian S. Bauer
NATURAL HISTORY
A scholarly overview of the Inca capital, its history and development, by the team leader of the Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project.
(PRU57, $29.95) |
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The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru
Nigel Davies
ARCHAEOLOGY
An anthropological history of ancient Peruvian civilizations up to the Incas and the Spanish Conquest.
(PRU65, $16.00) |
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Andean Archaeology
Helaine Silverman
ARCHAEOLOGY
The standard textbook.
(AND57, $43.95) |
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Andean Awakening, An Incan Guide to Mystic Peru
Jorge Luis Delgado
ARCHAEOLOGY
(PRU63, $17.95) |
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Andean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani & Asunta Quispe Huaman
Paul Gelles
Ricardo Valderrama Fernandez
Carmen Escalante Gutierrez
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A classic oral history as told to two Peruvian anthropologists in the 1970s. It's a moving account of life among the urban poor in Cuzco, offering insight into history and society in the Andes.
(PRU14, $17.95) |
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Animal Myths and Metaphors in South America
Gary Urton
HISTORY
(AND61, $20.00) |
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Apus and Incas: A Cultural Walking and Trekking Guide to Cuzco
Charles Brod
GUIDEBOOK
Recommended tours of Cuzco and its surroundings, with natural and cultural history.
(PRU03, $10.95) |
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The Birds of South America, The Oscine Passerines, Vol. 1
Guy Tudor
Robert Ridgely
FIELD GUIDE
This authoritative reference, the most complete guide to South American songbirds, features splendid color illustrations of 700 species, along with detailed range maps and field notes.
(FG28, $95.00) |
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The Birds of South America, The Oscine Passerines, Vol. 2
Guy Tudor
Robert Ridgely
FIELD GUIDE
A field guide to the flycatchers, antbirds and furnariids of South America.
(FG29, $95.00) |
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Chasing Neotropical Birds
Vera and Bob Thornton
NATURAL HISTORY
A Neotropical sampler, featuring 116 color photographs of dazzling, rare and charming birds of Central and South America.
(SAM76, $34.95) |
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Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Peter Matthiessen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del Fuego.
(SAM02, $16.00) |
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Conquistadors
Michael Wood
HISTORY
A lively, illustrated account of the Spanish conquest of the New World by the intrepid writer-filmmaker Michael Wood,
(SAM48, $22.95) |
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Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa
LITERATURE
A tale of power, corruption and identify set in 1950s Peru under the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odria.
(PRU84, $14.95) |
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Cordillera Blanca, Huayhuash
Lima 2000
A traveler's map of the northern Peruvian Andes.
(PRU54, $9.95) |
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The Cordillera del Condor Region of Ecuador and Peru
Thomas Schulenberg
NATURAL HISTORY
The biological resources of the Andean lower mountain forests.
(AND16, $17.00) |
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Cordillera Huayhuash Climber's Map
Alpine Mapping Guild
GUIDEBOOK
A shaded relief topographic map geared for climers and trekkers at a scale of 1:65,000.
(PRU53, $18.95) |
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Culture Smart! Peru
John Forrest
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(PRU64, $9.95) |
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Cuzco Region, Machu Picchu
ITMB
A traveler's map of the Inca Trail, Cuzco, Aquas Calientes, Machu Picchu and the region.
(AND46, $10.95) |
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The Exotic Kitchens of Peru
Copeland Marks
FOOD
(PRU69, $16.95) |
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Explorer of Machu Picchu, Portrait of Hiram Bingham
Alfred M. Bingham
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A biography of the explorer of the Andes, Yale professor and U.S. Senator.
(AND32, $15.95) |
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Fodor's Peru
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
With good recommendations on where to stay and eat, where to go and and what to do.
(PRU74, $19.95) |
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Footprint Cuzco & the Inca Heartland Handbook
Ben Box
Stephen Frankham
GUIDEBOOK
Comprehensive and up-to-date, this exceptional guide covers Cuzco and surroundings, including Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley, Tambopata, Manu Park and Lima in detail.
(PRU46, $19.95) |
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Footprint Peru Handbook
Alan Murphy
GUIDEBOOK
A general overview of Peru and practical travel detail on where to go and what to do.
(PRU27, $19.95) |
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Fortifications of the Incas, 1200-1531
H. W. Kaufmann
J.E. Kaufmann
Adam Hook
ARCHAEOLOGY
A slim guide to Inca fortifications, including Cusco and Machu Picchu, with illustrations, photographs and diagrams.
(AND66, $18.95) |
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Frommer's Peru
Neil E. Schlecht
GUIDEBOOK
A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions.
(PRU85, $21.99) |
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Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1)
Cedric Belfrage
Eduardo Galeano
HISTORY
Brief, lyrical vignettes and anecdotes from pre-Columbian myths through the conquest and early colonial period. A crash course in the history of the New World.
(MYA18, $16.95) |
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Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance, A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy
Alexandra Parma Cook
Noble David Cook
HISTORY
The well-told tale of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa, who was charged with bigamy, and imprisoned.
(PRU59, $21.95) |
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A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
Steven Hilty
William Brown
FIELD GUIDE
A classic South American bird guide with good coverage of the upper Amazon basin. It illustrates 1,700 species -- nearly half of all the species of South America.
(FG14, $67.50) |
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A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela
Steven Hilty
Guy Tudor
J.A. Gwynne
FIELD GUIDE
The classic South American bird guide, revised and expanded by Steve Hilty. A bit hefty for a field guide at just over 4 pounds, but still an essential reference to over 1,400 bird species. Travelers in the Brazilian Amazon will find it especially useful.
(FG13, $59.50) |
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The Heights of Machu Picchu
Pablo Neruda
Nathaniel Tarn
LITERATURE
FAVORITE
Machu Picchu and the Inca civilization inspired this celebrated epic hymn to the Americas by the great Pablo Neruda. Bilingual edition.
(AND22, $13.00) |
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History of the Inca Empire
Bernabe Cobo
HISTORY
A compact edition of the 17th-century account of the Incas, translated and edited by Roland Hamilton from Father Cobo's original manuscript.
(AND47, $21.95) |
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History of the Inca Realm
Maria Rostworowski De Diez Canseco
HISTORY
A scholarly history.
(AND63, $24.99) |
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The Hold Life Has, Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Catherine J. Allen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
(AND60, $19.95) |
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The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes
Johan Reinhard
ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeologist Johan Reinhard brings together tales of this own adventures and plenty of Inca history in this account of his discovery of Juanita, a 500-year-old mummy found in the Peruvian Andes.
(AND52, $14.95) |
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Incas, The History, Legends, Myths and Culture
David M. Jones
HISTORY
This amply illustrated historical and archaeological guide is especially strong on Incan art -- textiles, ceramics, jewelry and mor e-- mythology and rituals.
(AND67, $35.00) |
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An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
Titu Cusi Yupanqui
HISTORY
A new translation of the oral history of the Inca ruler Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui as told to a Spanish missionary in 1570.
(AND62, $21.95) |
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Inca Land, Explorations in the Highlands of Peru
Hiram Bingham
EXPLORATION
A personal account by explorer Hiram Bingham of four archaeological expeditions into Peru and the Andes (1909-1915), including two short chapters on his rediscovery of Machu Picchu and a chapter on Lake Titicaca. First published in 1922.
(AND45, $14.00) |
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Inca Myths
Gary Urton
HISTORY
A classic survey in the serries The Legendary Past.
(AND59, $12.95) |
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Inca Trail: Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Cusco Map
Lima 2000
BEST SELLER
This indispensable map shows the whole Sacred Valley from Cuzco to Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu in splendid detail (1:50,000).
(PRU28, $9.95) |
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The Incas
Terrence D'Altroy
HISTORY
An authoritative history chronicling the rise and fall of the Incan empire.
(CAM98, $26.95) |
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Insight Guide Amazon Wildlife
Huw Hennessy
Hans-Ulrich Bernard
GUIDEBOOK
Jammed with photographs, this compact guide introduces the people, wildlife, habitats, parks and preserves of the Amazon basin.
(AMZ03, $22.95) |
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It's a Jungle Up There, More Tales from the Treetops
Margaret Lowman
James Burgess
Edward Burgess
NATURAL HISTORY
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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The Last Forest, The Future of the Amazon in the Age of Globalization
Mark London
NATURAL HISTORY
Part personal adventure narrative, part policy paper, London examines the fate of the Amazon with optimism.
(AMZ102, $25.95) |
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Latin American Art
John F. Scott
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A popular survey of the arts in Latin America.
(SAM33, $29.95) |
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Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830
Robert Harvey
HISTORY
An epic history of colonial Latin America, focused on the heroism and derring-do of seven legendary men, including Simon Bolivar and General Jose de San Martin, in the fight for independence from Spain.
(SAM35, $18.95) |
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Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology
Margaret Lowman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The sprightly memoir of an ecologist who climbs, studies and sleeps in trees for a living, balancing multiple roles of scientist, wife and mom. She continues her story in a second memoir (written with her now-grown sons).
(AMZ57, $13.95) |
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Lima Map
Lima 2000
A full color, indexed map of the city of Lima.
(PRU29, $14.95) |
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Lonely Planet Peru
Sara Benson
GUIDEBOOK
An excellent practical guide to Peru geared for independent travelers.
(PRU13, $22.99) |
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Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring
Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive, detailed practical guide to traveling in South America.
(SAM44, $33.99) |
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Lords, Pyramids and Replicas: Images from the North Coast of Peru
Silva, Mario
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
Silva's vibrant photographs document the "neo-Moche" culture of his native northern Peru, capturing the modern interpretation of ancient iconography and its influence on everything from roadside shrines to architecture and advertising.
(PRU88, $35.00) |
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Machu Picchu
Barry Brukoff
Pablo Neruda
Stephen Kessler
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Brukoff's stunning color and black-and-white photographs nicely compliment Neruda's great poem, translated into English with facing Spanish.
(PRU43, $40.00) |
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Machu Picchu, Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas
Richard L. Burger
Lucy C. Salazar
ARCHAEOLOGY
A substantive, scholarly survey of the archaeology, art and culture of Machu Picchu. This handsome book features color illustrations and descriptions of 120 gold, silver, ceramic, bone and textile works recovered at Machu Picchu.
(AND35, $28.00) |
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The Madness of Things Peruvian, Democracy Under Seige
Alvaro Vargas Llosa
HISTORY
An analysis of Peruvian democracy and its failure by a journalist working on behalf of Margio Vargas Llosa's presidential campaign.
(PRU26, $39.95) |
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Mammals of the Neotropics, The Central Neotropics: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Vol. 3
John F. Eisenberg
Kent H. Redford
REFERENCE
A comprehensive survey of the 650 species of mammals of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
(SAM30, $55.00) |
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The Moche
Garth Bawden
ARCHAEOLOGY
A comprehensive, scholarly overview of the ancient Moche civilization of northern coastal Peru. These are the people, known for their architecture, ceramics and metallurgy, who built Sipan in the first centuries A.D.
(PRU56, $31.95) |
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Moon Handbook Peru
Ross Wehner
Renee del Gaudio
GUIDEBOOK
An informative guide in the popular series
(PRU58, $19.95) |
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Mountain of the Condor, Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu
Joseph W. Bastien
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An account of the rituals practiced by a small community inhabiting Kaata, a sacred mountain in midwestern Bolivia.
(AND28, $16.50) |
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Narrative of the Incas
Juan De Betanzos
Roland Hamilton
Dana Buchanan
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A contemporaneous account of the conquest and heritage of Peru from an Inca perspective.
(AND39, $21.95) |
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Narrative Threads, Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
Jeffre Quilter
ARCHAEOLOGY
A scholarly survey.
(AND55, $45.00) |
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A Neotropical Companion
J.C. Kricher
Mark Plotkin
NATURAL HISTORY
A tropical primer aimed at the motivated general reader. From plants and animals to birds and bugs, it's all here in this wonderfully written primer on the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America.
(GPS11, $29.95) |
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Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide
L.H. Emmons
FIELD GUIDE
An illustrated guide to the mammals of the New World tropics, compact enough to slip into your daypack, with 29 color plates illustrating more than 200 species.
(GPS12, $32.50) |
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Nova, Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca
Nova
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A 60-minute documentary on the Incas.
(PRU32, $19.95) |
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano
Cedric Belfrage
HISTORY
The most wrenchingly beautiful history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America ever written.
(AND26, $18.00) |
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Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard
S. George Philander
SCIENCE
A geoscientist at Princeton University, Philander, outlines the meaning and global significance of the El Nino current and its impact on global weather patterns in this informative popular account.
(SCI179, $19.95) |
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Palaces of the Ancient New World
Dumbarton Oaks
ARCHAEOLOGY
The proceedings of a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, October 10-11, 1998.
(PRU66, $30.00) |
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Pass the Butterworms, Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
Tim Cahill
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A collection of enertatining travel essays.
(WLD01, $13.00) |
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Personal Narrative
Alexander von Humboldt
EXPLORATION
This is the book that Darwin took on his voyage around the world -- a classic account of naturalist and explorer Humboldt's 18th-century discoveries in South America.
(SAM08, $17.00) |
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Peru Map
Lima 2000
A well-produced, colorful shaded relief map of Peru.
(PRU09, $10.95) |
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Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest, Huamanga to 1640
Steve J. Stern
HISTORY
A history of the inhabitants of Ayacucho, Peru, from Incan times to 1640.
(PRU37, $19.95) |
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Peru, Ecuador Map
Nelles
This sturdy, double-sided travel map at a scale of 1: 2.5 million features detailed topography and insets of Quito and Lima, Cusco and Lake Titicaca.
(AND69, $10.95) |
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Spanish
Pimsleur Language Method
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Spanish, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(SPN257, $19.95) |
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Rain of the Moon, Silver in Ancient Peru
Heidi King
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(PRU67, $19.95) |
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The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Mario Vargas Llosa
LITERATURE
An astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.
(AND65, $26.00) |
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Rough Guide Peru
Dilwyn Jenkins
GUIDEBOOK
This practical guide in the excellent British series includes an excellent historical and cultural overview.
(PRU78, $21.99) |
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Royal Tombs of Sipan
Walter Alva
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This thoroughly illustrated, authoritative overview of Moche culture, pottery and iconography was originally conceived as the companion book to a traveling exhibition.
(PRU06, $35.00) |
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Running the Amazon
Joe Kane
EXPLORATION
A best-selling account of a 4000-mile expedition from the high Andes to the Atlantic by foot, raft and kayak -- an expedition only four of the ten participants finished.
(AMZ13, $14.00) |
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A Sacred Landscape, The Search for Ancient Peru
Hugh Thomson
HISTORY
Thomson (The White Rock) explore Moche, Chavin, Nasca and other ancient civilizations of Peru in this tale of archaeology and adventure.
(PRU76, $16.95) |
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Seaworthy: Adrift With William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
T. R. Pearson
HISTORY
The 60-year-old Willis sailed a homemade balsa-wood raft over 4,000 miles across the Pacific from Peru to American Samoa, accompanied only by a cat and a foul-mouthed parrot.
(PAC174, $13.95) |
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Matthew Restall
HISTORY
In this provocative book, Restall tackles Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro and the misconceptions surrounding them. The conquisadores most certainly did not conquer the Americas with a handful of men, nor were they received as gods.
(SAM52, $16.95) |
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The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World
Chris Scarre
ARCHAEOLOGY
A comprehensive, illustrated overview of the great monuments of the ancient world and how they were built.
(GEN92, $40.00) |
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Shadow of the Bear, Travels in Their Vanishing Country
Brian Payton
NATURAL HISTORY
(NAT100, $25.95) |
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The Shining Path, A History of the Millenarian War in Peru
Robin Kirk
Gustavo Gorriti
HISTORY
An absorbing account of the 15-year guerilla war waged by the Ayacucho-based Shining Path.
(PRU41, $29.95) |
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Signs of the Inka Khipu, Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records
Gary Urton
ARCHAEOLOGY
A scholarly survey.
(AND58, $21.95) |
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The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon
Michael Goulding
Ronaldo Barthem
Efrem Ferreira
NATURAL HISTORY
A profusely illustrated, full-color atlas of the river and its major tributaries with 150 maps.
(AMZ82, $39.95) |
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Snakes, The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
Harry W. Greene
NATURAL HISTORY
The ecology and diversity of snakes worldwide, with stunning photographs.
(BST33, $55.00) |
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South America, The Andes Map
Nelles
A double-sided map covering the full range of the Andes and Pacific coast of South America.
(SAM47, $10.95) |
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Spanish, A Language Map
Kristine K. Kershul
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(SPN259, $7.95) |
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Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
Ronald Wright
HISTORY
A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account.
(NAM20, $17.00) |
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The Tambopata-Candamo Reserved Zone of Southeastern Peru, A Biological Assessment
Robin B. Foster
NATURAL HISTORY
A survey of the biological resources of the region.
(PRU17, $19.95) |
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Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques
Raoul d'Harcourt
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A reprint of a 1934 classic with illusrtations of hundreds of ancient textiles.
(AND44, $26.95) |
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Trail of Feathers, In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
Tahir Shah
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A rollicking search for the origins of Inca birdman legends. 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. It's quite a tale.
(PRU49, $13.95) |
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Traveling with Che Guevara, The Making of a Revolutionary
Alberto Granado
Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Granado's classic account of his travels with Che Guevara via motorbike through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela.
(SAM68, $14.95) |
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Trekking and Climbing in the Andes
Kate Harper
GUIDEBOOK
A compact guide to treks and climbs in the Andes in the Globetrotter Adventure series.
(AND34, $19.95) |
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Trekking in the Central Andes: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Rob Rachowiecki
GUIDEBOOK
A compact overview of suggested hikes and treks in the Andes of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. With day-by-day trail descriptions, two-color maps, and a guide to archaeological sites.
(AND50, $19.99) |
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Tschiffely's Ride
Aime Tschiffely
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The classic, richly told tale of people, places and adventures from Buenos Aires to Washington D.C. on horseback.
(SAM45, $24.95) |
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Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, A Bilingual Anthology
Stephen Tapscott
LITERATURE
A scholarly anthology of 400 poems, presented in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) and English. Selections include poems from Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges.
(SAM28, $27.95) |
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The University of Chicago Dictionary, Spanish-English/English-Spanish
Carlos Castillo
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
The well-regarded concise dictionary of words and phrases for today's language. Fifth Edition.
(SPN118, $11.00) |
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Us and Them, Archaeology and Ethnicity in the Andes
Richard Reycraft
ARCHAEOLOGY
A collection of scholarly review articles.
(AND56, $40.00) |
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The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco
Carol Damian
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A beautifully illustrated overview of the Cuzco school of painting in colonial Peru.
(AND49, $48.00) |
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War By Candlelight, Stories
Daniel Alarcon
LITERATURE
Peruvian-American Alarcon's debut collection of nine stories, six set in Peru, three in New York City. He writes of natural disaster, difficulties and relationships.
(PRU61, $12.95) |
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Where to Watch Birds in South America
Nigel Wheatley
NATURAL HISTORY
A compact practical guide to birdwatching sites throughout South America, including checklists.
(SAM40, $24.95) |
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Women of the Four Winds
Elizabeth Olds
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A collection of four lively biographies of four 20th-century American explorers.
(EXP19, $21.95) |
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The World as You Dream It, Shamanistic Teachings from the Amazon and Andes
John M. Perkins
RELIGION
A personal account of sometimes hard-to-believe experiences with curanderos (or shamans) in the highlands and Amazon of Ecuador.
(AMZ46, $12.95) |
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Yanomami, The Fierce Controversy and What We Might Learn from It
Robert Borofsky
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A study of the controversy surrounding anthropological studies of the Yanomami.
(SAM67, $21.95) |
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Yawar Fiesta
Jose Maria Arguedas
LITERATURE
A poetic novel of class and race relations in the Peruvian Andes in the first half of the 20th century. Arguedas, who learned Quechua from household servants as a child, was an impassioned advocate of cultural autonomy for indigenous peoples.
(PRU42, $14.50) |
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Yuraq Janka: Guide to the Peruvian Andes, Cordilleras Blanca and Rosko
John Ricker
GUIDEBOOK
A mountaineering guide to the Cordillera Blanca.
(PRU44, $12.95) |
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