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Amazon Basin Map
• ITMB
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A colorful physical map scaled at 1:4,000,000, showing the entire Amazon Basin from the Andes to the Atlantic.
(AMZ05, $11.95)
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Amazon Sweet Sea, Land, Life, and Water at the River's Mouth
• Nigel J.H. Smith
• NATURAL HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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A lively, well-informed portrait of the natural history and conservation of the Amazon estuary, with 138 color pictures.
(AMZ78, $39.95)
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Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise
• Betty Meggers
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A groundbreaking study of cultural adaptation in the Amazon, first published in 1971.
(AMZ47, $17.95)
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• Peter Matthiessen
• LITERATURE
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Matthiessen's wonderfully written thriller set in the Amazon.
(AMZ29, $14.95)
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Birds of Ecuador, A Field Guide
• Paul Greenfield
• Robert Ridgely
• FIELD GUIDE
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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)
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Birds of Northern South America, Two Volume Set
• Robin Restall
• FIELD GUIDE
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Both volumes of the monumental guide covering 2,308 species of birds from Ecuador to French Guiana with detailed species accounts and illustrations published separately.
(SAM104, $150.00)
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Birds of Northern South America, Vol. 1: Identification, Distribution and taxonomy
• Robin Restall
• Miguel Lentino
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The hefty companion volume, with detailed species accounts, covers 2,308 species of birds found from Ecuador to French Guiana.
(SAM102, $95.00)
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Birds of Northern South America, Vol. 2: Field Guide
• Robin Restall
• Clemencia Rodner
• Roger Williams
• FIELD GUIDE
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This comprehensive field guide, featuring an astounding 6400 paintings and 2308 maps covers all the birds from Ecuador to Guiana.
(SAM103, $65.00)
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The Birds of South America, The Oscine Passerines, Vol. 1
• Guy Tudor
• Robert Ridgely
• FIELD GUIDE
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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
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A field guide to the flycatchers, antbirds and furnariids of South America.
(FG29, $95.00)
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Brazil and Uruguay Map
• Auto Mapa
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A regional map from Rio south to Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
(BZL08, $11.95)
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Brazil in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture
• Jan Rocha
• GUIDEBOOK
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Authoritative and up-to-date, this slim guide focuses on the history of Brazil, its cultural heritage and current political, environmental and economic challenges. With maps, photographs and some travel information.
(BZL03, $12.95)
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Brazil Map
• Borch Maps
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A handy folded, laminated map of Brazil.
(BZL17, $11.95)
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The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics
• Robert M. Levine
• John J. Crocitti
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Diverse letters, interviews and other documents from early colonization to contemporary literature, this book is an excellent overview of the history and culture of Brazil.
(BZL12, $25.95)
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Brazil: Amazon & Pantanal, Travellers' Wildlife Guides
• Les Beletsky
• David Pearson
• FIELD GUIDE
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A comprehensive guide and handbook to the flora, fauna and habitats of Brazil. The 100 color plates feature 90 species of amphibians and reptiles, 310 birds, 70 mammals, 30 insects and 50 common trees and plants.
(BZL30, $27.95)
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Conquistadors
• Michael Wood
• HISTORY
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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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Entangled Edens, Visions of the Amazon
• Candace Slater
• HISTORY
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Slater looks at the many stories, myths and labels that have been placed onto the Aamzon, particulary European ideas of the place, in this enlightening overview of the region.
(AMZ71, $50.00)
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Evolution, The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
• Edward Larson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A clearheaded, engrossing brief history of ideas about evolution from the 18th century to the present by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
(NAT64, $14.95)
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Explore the Inca Trail
• Jacquetta Megarry
• Roy Davies
• GUIDEBOOK
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A brief, ingeniously designed guide to trekking in the Sacred Valley from Cusco to Machu Picchu with color photographs, a fold-out map of the route, site diagram of Machu Picchu and a camp-to-camp overview of the Inca trail.
(AND33, $15.95)
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The Explorers of South America
• Edward Goodman
• EXPLORATION
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A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves.
(SAM10, $24.95)
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Explorers of the Amazon
• Anthony Smith
• EXPLORATION
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In this well told overview of the region, Anthony Smith presents a history of exploration of the Amazon, scientific and otherwise.
(AMZ31, $32.50)
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A Field Guide to Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon
• James L. Castner
• Stephen L. Timme
• James A. Duke
• FIELD GUIDE
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A photographic identification guide focusing on the practical uses of common plants of the tropical forest.
(AMZ39, $38.00)
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Peru
• James Clements
• Noam Shany
• Dana Gardner
• Eustace Barnes
• FIELD GUIDE
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A comprehensive field guide to the birds of Peru, featuring 127 color plates and illustrating almost 1,800 species, focusing on their identification, habitat, and distribution.
(PRU21, $60.00)
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Footprint Cuzco & the Inca Heartland Handbook
• Ben Box
• Stephen Frankham
• GUIDEBOOK
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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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Fordlandia
• Patricia J. Duncan
• Eduardo Sguiglia
• LITERATURE
• OUT OF PRINT
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This novel mythologizes automaker Ford's grandly misbegotten adventure to ccultivate a rubber plantation deep in the Amazon Jungle.
(AMZ72, $13.95)
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Four Neotropical Rainforests
• Alwyn Gentry
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A good reference to the flora, fauna and ecology of four representative tropical forests: Manaus (Brazil), Park Manu (Peru), Barro Colorado Island (Panama) and La Selva (Costa Rica).
(AMZ33, $55.00)
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Green Mansions
• W.H. Hudson
• LITERATURE
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Probably the best known work of fiction set in the Amazon, this novel by Hudson (first published in 1904) is a classic tale of "travels and adventures among the savages."
(AMZ19, $12.95)
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The Green Pharmacy
• James A. Duke
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An A-Z catalog of ailments and the herbal remedies that heal them.
(AMZ40, $19.95)
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A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
• Steven Hilty
• William Brown
• FIELD GUIDE
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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 Trinidad and Tobago
• Richard Ffrench
• FIELD GUIDE
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A comprehensive field guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago.
(CRB16, $39.95)
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A History of Brazil
• E. Bradford Burns
• HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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A wide-ranging social, intellectual and cultural history of Brazil.
(BZL02, $26.00)
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A House for Mr. Biswas
• V.S. Naipaul
• LITERATURE
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Naipaul's comic masterpiece. Described as Dickensian in scope, it tells the story of an outsider struggling to find a place for himself in the complex society of Trinidad.
(CRB20, $15.95)
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In Search of the Golden Frog
• Marty Crump
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A memoir of a field biologist.
(CON18, $27.00)
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In the Rainforest, Report from a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World
• Catherine Caufield
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Caufield deftly combines good basic information on the ecology of the world's rain forests, a report on thorny conservation issues and a sympathetic treatment of indigenous inhabitants through masterly prose.
(FST01, $16.00)
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Insight Guide Brazil
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A profusely illustrated overview of the country, this guide features concise essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture. With hundreds of photos and maps.
(BZL01, $22.95)
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Insight Guide Peru
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated overview, panoramic in scope, that brings Peru to life in hundreds of color photographs and vividly written essays by a team of experts on history, archaeology and culture.
(PRU01, $22.95)
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Insight Guide Trinidad and Tobago
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated introduction to Trinidad and Tobago, featuring excellent color maps, photogaphs and essays on the island history, culture and nature. With some practical information.
(CRB102, $24.95)
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Jaguars and Electric Eels
• Alexander von Humboldt
• LITERATURE
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In this short excerpt from Personal Narrative (the original runs to three volumes), Humboldt describes his now-famous three-month journey to the Rio Negro via the Orinoco River.
(AMZ108, $10.00)
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The Jungle and the Damned
• Hassoldt Davis
• Lawrence Millman
• EXPLORATION
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A colorful account of honeymooning in French Guiana, including visiting Devil's Island and canoeing 300 miles up the Maroni River to the border with Brazil, originally published in 1952.
(SAM55, $16.95)
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Keep the River on Your Right
• Tobias Schneebaum
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The haunting, lyrical diary of a young man's experiences in the Peruvian rain forest.
(AMZ11, $12.50)
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La Doctora, The Journal of an American Doctor Practicing Medicine of the Amazon River
• Linnea Smith
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An insightful collection of letters home to America from a doctor at an Amazonian jungle clinic for education and research.
(AMZ43, $16.95)
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Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology
• Margaret Lowman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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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Light at the Edge of the World
• Wade Davis
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic Davis surveys the global diversity of peoples and cultures in this meditative account of travels from the Arctic to the Amazon to Borneo.
(WLD34, $16.95)
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Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, detailed practical guide to traveling in South America.
(SAM44, $33.99)
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Margaret Mee's Amazon, Diaries of an Artist Explorer
• Margaret Mee
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A handsome edition of the diaries, paintings and sketchbooks of Margaret Mee (1909-1988), an intrepid traveler and collector. With 250 stunning botanical and other illustrations.
(AMZ86, $59.50)
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Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World
• Peter Weir
• LITERATURE
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Russell Crowe stars in this adaptation of two Patrick O'Brian novels, a swashbuckling adventure set off the coast of Cape Horn in 1805.
(GPS66, $39.98)
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Measuring the World, A Novel
• Daniel Kehlmann
• Carol Brown Janeway
• LITERATURE
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Kehlman interweaves the lives and adventures of explorer Alexander Von Humboldt and mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss with wit and invention in this surprise bestselling novel of South American travel, science and ideas.
(GER202, $14.95)
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The Middle Passage, The Caribbean Revisited
• V.S. Naipaul
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Novelist and travel writer Naipaul tackles the history of the Caribbean and northern South America in this incisive portrait.
(CRB11, $14.95)
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics
• Marco Lambertini
• John Venerella
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A compact, illustrated guide to the natural history of the tropical latitudes.
(CON17, $25.00)
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Northern South America Map
• Reise & Verkehrsverlag
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A map of the northern half of South America, at a scale of 1:4,000,000.
(SAM31, $15.95)
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One River, Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon
• Wade Davis
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A lyrical, meticulously researched book of discovery that is both a biography of the author's mentor, the director of the Harvard botanical museum Richard Schultes, and the story of his own botanical adventures throughout South America.
(AMZ22, $17.00)
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Peru Map
• Borch Maps
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A laminated map of Peru with city plans.
(PRU02, $10.95)
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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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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers
• Richard Evans Schultes
• Albert Hofmann
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An illuminating guide to hallucinogens, the ecology, chemistry and, especially, the use in the healing rites of indigenous peoples.
(AMZ38, $29.95)
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Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon
• R.D. Bartlett
• Patricia Bartlett
• FIELD GUIDE
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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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Rio de Janeiro Map
• Borch Maps
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A laminated road map of Rio de Janeiro at a scale of 1:13,000.
(BZL25, $8.95)
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The Rivers Ran East
• Leonard Clark
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A Traveler's Tales classic account of adventure and exploration in the Amazon.
(AMZ94, $16.95)
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Rough Guide Brazil
• David Cleary
• GUIDEBOOK
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An opinionated, thorough travel guide with region-by-region descriptions.
(BZL09, $24.95)
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Saudades Do Brasil, A Photographic Memoir
• Claude Levi-Strauss
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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These photographs by the great structural anthropologist, dating from the 1930s, are not just beautiful but an invaluable record of life in Sao Palo and the Amazon.
(BZL04, $60.00)
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Savages
• Joe Kane
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A firsthand account of a naive journalist among the Huaraoni of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Kane is an engaging, humorous guide to development issues in the Oriente of Ecuador.
(AMZ20, $14.95)
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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, $16.95)
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Shamanism, Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
• Willard R. Trask
• Mircea Eliade
• RELIGION
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An early account of Shamanism among the native peoples of South America.
(AMZ51, $24.95)
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Year on the Path to Knowledge
• Jeremy Narby
• Francis Huxley
• RELIGION
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A collection of interviews and observations on Shamanism.
(GEN202, $14.95)
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Snakes, The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
• Harry W. Greene
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The ecology and diversity of snakes worldwide, with stunning photographs.
(BST33, $55.00)
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South America Northeast Map
• International Map Company
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This brightly colored map of northeast South America at a scale of 1:2,800,000 covers the Atlantic coast of the continent south from the Caribbean to Rio de Janeiro, including the Amazon and Orinoco.
(SAM16, $8.95)
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The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
• Phillipe Descola
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Three years among the Jivaro (Achaur) of the Upper Amazon. A student of Claude Levi-Strauss, Descola proves himself to be an intelligent observer and born storyteller in this ethnographic account.
(AMZ25, $18.95)
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Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
• Ronald Wright
• HISTORY
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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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Tales from the Medicine Trail, Tracking Down the Health Secrets of Shamans, Herbalists, Mystics, Yogis, and Other Healers
• Christopher Kilham
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• OUT OF PRINT
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An account of journeys on the trail of medical herbs and botanicals.
(GEN246, $19.95)
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The Tambopata-Candamo Reserved Zone of Southeastern Peru, A Biological Assessment
• Robin B. Foster
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A survey of the biological resources of the region.
(PRU17, $19.95)
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Travelers' Tales Brazil
• Annette Haddad
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A collection of stories, articles and excerpts on Brazil -- an excellent introduction to the people, culture and traditions of the country as seen through the eyes of modern writers.
(BZL06, $18.95)
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Traveling with Che Guevara, The Making of a Revolutionary
• Alberto Granado
• Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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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Vine of the Soul, Medicine Men, Their Plants, and Rituals in the Colombian Amazon
• Richard Evans Schultes
• Robert F. Raffauf
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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Where to Watch Birds in South America
• Nigel Wheatley
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A compact practical guide to birdwatching sites throughout South America, including checklists.
(SAM40, $24.95)
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With Broadax and Firebrand, The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
• Warren Dean
• HISTORY
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A vivid, scholarly environmental history of Brazil from early settlement through the 1990s, focusing on deforestation on the Atlantic coast.
(BZL31, $29.95)
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The World as You Dream It, Shamanistic Teachings from the Amazon and Andes
• John M. Perkins
• RELIGION
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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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