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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, $15.95)
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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: Floods of Fortune
• Michael Goulding
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A masterful survey of the people, culture, ecology and economy of the Amazon flood plain, a threatened yet slightly overlooked (compared with upland rain forests) wetland.
(AMZ06, $29.00)
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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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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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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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The Burning Season:The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
• Andrew Revkin
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A riveting non-fiction murder mystery: the story of Chico Mendes, a rubber industry union organizer killed in the Brazilian Amazon River town of Xapuri in 1988.
(AMZ08, $25.00)
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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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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, $16.00)
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Darkness in El Dorado, How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
• Patrick Tierney
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A hard-hitting controversial indictment of anthropologists, government officials and others who sought to cash in on the study of the Yanomami,
(AMZ64, $14.95)
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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.
(AMZ75, $17.95)
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The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest, Stories from a Vanishing World
• Nigel J.H. Smith
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A wonderfully presented collection of observations from the Amazon, this is a good introduction to the people, culture and geography of the rain forest.
(AMZ26, $29.95)
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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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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 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 Peru Handbook
• Alan Murphy
• GUIDEBOOK
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A general overview of Peru and practical travel detail on where to go and what to do.
(PRU27, $19.95)
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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 Venezuela
• Steven Hilty
• Guy Tudor
• J.A. Gwynne
• FIELD GUIDE
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The classic South American bird guide, revised and expanded by Steve Hilty. A bit hefty for a field guide at just over 4 pounds, but still an essential reference to over 1,400 bird species. Travelers in the Brazilian Amazon will find it especially useful.
(FG13, $59.50)
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In Amazonia, A Natural History
• Hugh Raffles
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An intriguing look at the intertwined history of people and nature in the Amazon. Academic yet still artful, Raffles focuses on a small Brazilian riverine community and the transformation of their river over the last 50 years.
(AMZ85, $25.95)
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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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Into the Heart, One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami
• Kenneth Good
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A first-hand report of life among the Yanomami people of the Amazon
(AMZ60, $45.00)
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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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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, $29.95)
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Jungle Travel and Survival
• John Walden, M.D.
• GUIDEBOOK
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Medical doctor and frequent Amazon-traveler Walden provides useful advice on avoiding malaria, parasites, poisonous and dangerous animals, dehydration and much more in this compact guide.
(AMZ73, $18.95)
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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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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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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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The Lost Steps
• Alejo Carpentier
• Harriet Onis
• LITERATURE
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A hallucinatory novel of a young urban musicologist's journey to a fictional city in the Amazon basin. For those with an appreciation for demanding literature, this is a celebrated masterpiece.
(AMZ18, $17.50)
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The Lost World
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• LITERATURE
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Inspired by the magnificent landscapes surrounding the Orinoco River, this classic novel follows an intrepid scientist into the jungles of the Amazon Basin in search of prehistoric creatures.
(VNZ04, $10.00)
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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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Moon Handbook Peru
• Ross Wehner
• Renee del Gaudio
• GUIDEBOOK
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An informative guide in the popular series
(PRU58, $19.95)
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons
• Henry W. 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, $24.95)
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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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Peru, Birds of the Wetlands, Beaches and Oceans
• Rainforest Publications
• FIELD GUIDE
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A handy, double-sided laminated card depicting commonly encountered boobies, kingfishers, herons and other wetland birds of Peru.
(PRU82, $6.95)
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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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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, $25.00)
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River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
• Candice Millard
• HISTORY
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Millard captures the suspense and the setting in vivid detail in this chronicle of Roosevelt's calamitous, ill-prepared Amazon expedition.
(AMZ96, $14.95)
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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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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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The Sea and the Jungle
• H.M. Tomlinson
• EXPLORATION
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First published in 1912, this is a thoroughly unromanticized, absorbing account of a 2,000-mile journey by steamship deep into the Amazon. Understated and often hilarious.
(AMZ10, $18.00)
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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, $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, $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, $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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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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Tristes Tropiques
• Claude Levi-Strauss
• John Weightman
• Doreen Weightman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The classic, insightful account of the peoples of the Amazon by the inventor of structural anthropology. A demanding read, yet humorous and worthwhile.
(AMZ14, $20.00)
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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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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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White Waters and Black
• Gordon McCreagh
• George Schaller
• EXPLORATION
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A classic account of a two-year-long scientific expedition to the Bolivian Amazon, funny, sweet and thrilling. Originally published in 1923.
(AMZ70, $16.00)
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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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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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