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Across a Hundred Mountains, A Novel
• Reyna Grande
• LITERATURE
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(MEX161, $23.00)
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Ancient Maya, New Perspectives
• Heather McKillop
• HISTORY
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(MYA46, $22.95)
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Backcountry Pilot, Flying Adventures with Ike Russell
• Thomas Bowen
• ANTHOLOGY
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An anthology of anecdotes Ike Russell, a bush pilot legendary among research scientists.
(DES07, $29.95)
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Chihuahua, Pictures From the Edge
• Charles Bowden
• Virgil Hancock
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An eccentric visual celebration featruing 40 vibrantly colored large-format color photographs.
(MEX128, $29.95)
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A Concise History of Mexico
• Brian Hamnett
• HISTORY
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(MEX162, $25.99)
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Crafts of Mexico
• Margarita de Orellana
• Albert Ruy Sanchez
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An abundantly illustrated guide to Mexico's crafts, including textiles, jewelry, ceramics, furniture and more.
(MEX144, $45.00)
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The Face of Pancho Villa
• Manuel Plana
• HISTORY
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An excellent introduction to Mexico's desert north, this richly illustrated, compact history traces the legacy of a popular leader. Pancho Villa's mansion in downtown Chihuahua is now known as the Museo de la Revolucion.
(MEX168, $12.95)
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Field Guide to Mexican Birds
• Roger Tory Peterson
• Edward Chalif
• FIELD GUIDE
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An easy-to-carry field guide with 1,000 species reported in Mexico, Belize and El Salvador, covering also northwest Costa Rica.
(FG12, $22.00)
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Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador
• Ernest Preston Edwards
• FIELD GUIDE
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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This classic guide illustrates all the regularly-occurring birds of Mexico and neighboring areas, including details of distribution, abundance, habitat and identification features for 850 species.
(MEX47, $22.95)
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Kissing the Virgin's Mouth: A Novel
• Donna Gershten
• LITERATURE
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The tale of thoroughly modern, contradictory Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vásquez.
(MEX122, $12.95)
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The Lawless Roads
• Graham Greene
• David Rieff
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A riveting account of Graham's journeys through Tabasco and Chiapas in the 1930s, including his time in San Cristobal de Las Casas and Palenque. Greene was in Mexico investigating the impact of the anti-Church policies of President Calles.
(MEX164, $14.00)
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Moon Handbook Cabo
• Joe Cummings
• GUIDEBOOK
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An informative guide in the popular series.
(MEX143, $16.95)
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Northern Mexico Map
• ITMB
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A colorful traveler's map of Sonora and Mexico's Copper Canyon, at a scale of 1:1,350,000.
(MEX112, $12.95)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Spanish
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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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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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
• Matthew Restall
• HISTORY
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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, $19.99)
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The Sibley Guide to Birds
• David Sibley
• GUIDEBOOK
• FAVORITE
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With 6,600 original paintings, full-color detailed range maps and Sibley's mania for accuracy, this is the book that every North American birder must own. It's beautiful, too.
(FG48, $35.00)
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Sierra Tarahumara Barrancas del Cobre Map
• International Map Company
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A simple, two-color map of the Copper Canyon and Sierra Tarahumara from Chihuahua to Hermosillo, Los Mochis and Culiacan on the Golf of California.
(MEX123, $4.95)
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Sonoran Desert Spring
• John Alcock
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Alcock, a professor of insect behavior at the University of Arizona, writes of the plants and animals and ecology in this lyrical meditation on the Sonoran desert.
(BJA20, $17.95)
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