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SOUTH AMERICA
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Birds of Northern South America, Vol. 2: Field Guide
• Robin Restall
• Clemencia Rodner
• Roger Williams
FIELD GUIDE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 656 PAGES
Designed for use in the field, this Identification Guide (Volume 2 of the monumental Birds of Northern South America), features Robin Restall's exquisitely detailed paintings, along with range maps and brief notes on identification integrated on facing pages. With an astounding 6400 color paintings (illustrating many birds in a variety of plumages) and 2308 maps. It covers all of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana (including offshore islands) and can be used (with caution warn the authors) in Northern Peru and Brazil. Birders in the Amazon will welcome this book.
(SAM103, $70.00) |
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Looking For History, Dispatches From Latin America
• Alma Guillermoprieto
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2002 •
PAPER
• 303 PAGES
This collection of essays, originally appearing in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, displays Guillermoprieto's flare, heart and knowledge of the region. She's not only an outstanding writer but an incisive reporter and portraitist. With chapters on Eva Peron, Columbia's drug wars, Che Guevara, Havana, Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa and contemporary Mexico.
(SAM60, $16.95) |
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A Neotropical Companion
• John Kricher
• Mark Plotkin
NATURAL HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 536 PAGES
A tropical primer aimed at the motivated general reader. It's a systematic overview of the ecology, habitats, animals, plants and ecosystems of Central and South America. For those not put off by Latin names and concepts like Batesian mimicry, this handbook is a great introduction to the region.
(GPS11, $35.00) |
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Insight Guide Chile
• Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 380 PAGES
This glossy guide is a full-color introduction to the land, people and history of Chile, written by a team of experts. Brief background essays highlight important topics, and there is some practical travel information interspersed throughout.
(CHI03, $23.99) |
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Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide
• L.H. Emmons
FIELD GUIDE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 298 PAGES
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. It covers most Central and South American mammals. Even the author concedes that it's difficult to see many of the more elusive rain forest mammals but keep a close watch for the sloths -- they're marvelous, and not likely to escape in a hurry.
(GPS12, $42.50) |
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