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Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide

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)

Rough Guide Brazil


by David Cleary

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 736 PAGES

An opinionated, thorough travel guide with region-by-region descriptions. (BZL09, $27.99)

Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths


by Orlando & Claudio Villas Boas

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 270 PAGES

Originally published in 1973, this is the collection of tales by the pioneering Brazilian conservationists, instrumental in the founding of the Xingu National Park in the Mato Grosso. (BZL81, $24.95)

Brazilian Adventure

Brazilian Adventure


by Peter Fleming

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

A classic and very entertaining account of a 3,000-mile quest through the Amazon in search of a missing English colonel, first published in 1933. (AMZ55, $16.95)

Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth


by Bill McKibben

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 235 PAGES

McKibben writes movingly of successful environmental efforts in the Adirondacks, the Brazilian city of Curibita and the southern Indian state of Kerala. (CON51, $15.00)

Where to Watch Birds in South America


by Nigel Wheatley

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 431 PAGES

A compact practical guide to birdwatching sites throughout South America, including checklists. (SAM40, $30.95)

 

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