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1491, New Revelations of Americas Before Columbus
• Charles C. Mann
• HISTORY
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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, $16.00)
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Along the River that Flows Uphill: From the Orinoco to the Amazon
• Miriam Murcutt
• Richard Starks
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The account of adventures 1,000 miles up the Orinoco, along the lengh of Venezuela's Casiquiare River to Rio Negro and the Amazon.
(AMZ123, $19.95)
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Amazon Expeditions, My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator
• Paul Colinvaux
• SCIENCE
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Ecologist Colinvaux's life-long work on the puzzle of biodiversity in the tropics takes him from the Alaskan tundra to Amazon jungles, the Galapagos, High Andes and Panama.
(AMZ113, $32.50)
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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 at the Crossroads, The Challenge of Sustainable Development
• Anthony Hall
• SCIENCE
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A wide-ranging analysis of development alternatives for the Amazon, including logging, mining, fisheries, agroforestry, and pharmaceuticuals.
(AMZ106, $19.95)
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• Peter Matthiessen
• LITERATURE
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Set in a malarial outpost of the Amazon jungle, Matthiessen's moral thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringos: Martin Quarrier, who has come to convert the local Indians to Christianity, and Lewis Moon, a half-Indian mercenary who has been hired to kill them.
(AMZ29, $16.00)
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The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin
• Michael McClain
• Reynaldo Victoria
• Jeffrey Richey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A collection of review articles on nutrients, nutient cycling and the hydrogeology of the Amazon basin.
(AMZ103, $110.00)
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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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Insight Guide Amazon Wildlife
• Huw Hennessy
• Hans-Ulrich Bernard
• GUIDEBOOK
• OUT OF PRINT
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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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Bradt Guide Amazon
• Roger Harris
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide to the Amazon and Orinoco rivers.
(AMZ92, $25.99)
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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.
(BZL17, $11.95)
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The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics
• Robert M. Levine
• John J. Crocitti
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• OUT OF PRINT
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A diverse selection of 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
• COMING IN JUNE
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A comprehensive 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, $29.95)
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The Brazilians
• Joseph Page
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A clear, comprehensive and compelling introduction to Brazil, covering politics, history, economics, ecology, conservation and culture.
(AMZ16, $22.95)
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Chasing Neotropical Birds
• Vera and Bob Thornton
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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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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, $24.95)
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The Creature in the Map, A Journey to El Dorado
• Charles Nicholl
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Nicholl uncovers fascinating facts about the original, ill-fated 16th-century voyage of Sir Walter Ralegh while describing his own experiences on the Orinoco river of today in this meeditative account of a quest for the golden city of El Dorado.
(VNZ05, $20.00)
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Edge of the Jungle
• William Beebe
• EXPLORATION
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A collection of 12 essays on the Amazon and its ecology and wildlife. A scientist-explorer with the soul of a poet, Beebe wrote dozens of books about his adventures in tropical America and Guyana.
(AMZ75, $17.95)
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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, $26.95)
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The Fish People, Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in North Western Amazonia
• Jean E. Jackson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Here, Jean Jackson discusses the Amazonian Bara, examining marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.
(AMZ116, $58.00)
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Flowers of the Amazon Forest, The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee
• Margaret Mee
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Featuring 60 of Mee's splendidly detailed, gorgeous botanical illustrations, along with field sketches and diary excerpts.
(AMZ104, $39.50)
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Fodor's Brazil
• Shan Kelly
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(BZL71, $22.00)
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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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Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
• Greg Grandin
• HISTORY
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A portrait of WWI-era America, the remarkable industrialist Ford (richest man in the world at the time) and all the folly and hubris of transporting can-do, gung-ho small town America to the tropics, Greg Grandini's history reads like a novel. He captures in meticulous detail the folly and arrogance of Ford's impossible idea of not just a rubber industry but also golf and square dances and utopia in the Brazilian Amazon.
(AMZ118, $27.50)
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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, $60.00)
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Frommer's Brazil
• Shawn Blore
• GUIDEBOOK
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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.
(BZL70, $21.99)
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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, $21.95)
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A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
• Steven Hilty
• William Brown
• FIELD GUIDE
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This classic South American bird guide gives good coverage of the upper Amazon basin, illustrating 1,700 species -- nearly half of all the species of South America.
(FG14, $75.00)
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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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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 Heart of the Amazon Forest
• Henry Walter Bates
• LITERATURE
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A choice excerpt from Bates' classic Naturalist of the River Amazonas (1863). Bates was one of a triumvirate of Victorian scientific explorers including Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
(AMZ109, $10.00)
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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, $18.00)
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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, $22.99)
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Insight Guide Peru
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Panoramic in scope, this illustrated overview brings Peru to life in hundreds of color photographs and vivid essays by a team of experts writing on history, archaeology and culture.
(PRU01, $22.95)
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John Muir's Last Journey, South to the Amazon and East to Africa
• Robert Michael Pyle
• John Muir
• EXPLORATION
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A collection of letters and notes on Muir's eight-month voyage in 1911-1912 to the Andes, Amazon, Southern and East Africa.
(SAM78, $35.00)
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Journey of the Pink Dolphins, An Amazon Quest
• Sy Montgomery
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this magical, mystical journey in the Brazilian Amazon, Montgomery (Spell of the Tiger) sets off with river guides, shamans and conservationists in search of the strange bouto, a beaked dolphin that inhabits much of the Amazon and Orinoco river drainages.
(AMZ61, $19.95)
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A Land of Ghosts, The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia
• David Campbell
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Campbell writes with flair and insight of the people, history and ecological discoveries in the far western reaches of the Amazon Basin, a place where he has focused much of his work.
(AMZ90, $18.95)
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The Last Forest, The Future of the Amazon in the Age of Globalization
• Mark London
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Part personal adventure narrative, part policy paper, London examines the fate of the Amazon with optimism.
(AMZ102, $25.95)
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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 Wade 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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The Mighty Orinoco
• Jules Verne
• LITERATURE
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Appearing for the first time in English, this 1898 novel from science fiction pioneer Jules Verne features a harrowing trip up the uncharted Orinoco, full of encounters with dangerous creatures, fearsome Indians, and infectious diseases.
(VNZ07, $19.95)
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Monkeys of the Amazon
• Nick Gordon
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A photographic celerbation of the diversity, beauty and nature of the primates of the Amazon basin.
(AMZ110, $22.65)
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Natural Acts, A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
• David Quammen
• SCIENCE
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Quammen augments this new edition of his debut collection of essays with a section of his best work since 1985.
(NAT134, $15.95)
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons
• Henry Walter Bates
• EXPLORATION
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A spell-binding early account of the river and its environs, first published in 1863. This classic chronicle of Bates's scientific adventures, part natural history and part travelogue, has inspired generations of tropical biologists.
(AMZ07, $17.95)
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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, $28.00)
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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, $29.99)
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The Remarkable Life of William Beebe, Explorer and Naturalist
• Carol Grant Gould
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An engaging biography of the underwater pionner, author and naturalist.
(NAT70, $28.50)
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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
• ITMB
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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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Rough Guide Brazil
• David Cleary
• GUIDEBOOK
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An opinionated, thorough travel guide with region-by-region descriptions.
(BZL09, $27.99)
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Sacred Leaves of Candomble: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
• Robert A. Voeks
• RELIGION
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An account of the ethnobotany of African religious and healing traditions in Brazil.
(BZL29, $25.00)
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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, $16.00)
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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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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, $60.00)
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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, $24.95)
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Spix's Macaw, The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird
• Tony Juniper
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this suspenseful account Tony Juniper tells the story of the fight to save the habitat of the last remaining Spix's Macaw, an all-but-extinct Amazon parrot brought to the brink of extinction by smugglers.
(AMZ95, $20.95)
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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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The Thief at the End of the World, Rubber, Power and the Seeds of Empire
• Joe Jackson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A riveting portrait of the determined, unscrupulous Henry Wickham, who smuggled rubber tree seeds out of the Amazon, and an account of Victorian Britain's profiteering in South America.
(AMZ115, $27.95)
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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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Tropical Rainforest
• Ben Shedd
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A visual overview of the ecology and nature of tropical forests worldwide, originally presented in IMAX theaters.
(AMZ89, $19.99)
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Two to Tango
• Peter Guttridge
• MYSTERY
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Dangerous creatures -- and killers -- in the Amazon threaten journalist Nick Madrid as he attempts to prevent the murder of a rockstar in the third book of this popular series.
(AMZ98, $14.00)
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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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Wallpaper City Guide Rio De Janeiro
• Wallpaper Magazine
• GUIDEBOOK
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A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations.
(BZL56, $8.95)
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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, $29.95)
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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, $14.95)
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Yanomami, The Fierce Controversy and What We Might Learn from It
• Robert Borofsky
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A study of the controversy surrounding anthropological studies of the Yanomami.
(SAM67, $22.95)
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Yanomami, The Fierce Controversy and What We Might Learn from It
• Robert Borofsky
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A study of the controversy surrounding anthropological studies of the Yanomami.
(SAM67, $22.95)
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