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Beyond Bogota, Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia
• Gary Leech
HISTORY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 260 PAGES
Part memoir, part history, this is the tale of journalist Leech's 11-month captivity in Colombia at the hands of FARC, a guerilla group. Leech is very critical of the drug war, and uses his ordeal as a frame for exploring the history, culture, and current politics of Colombia.
(SAM161, $20.00) |
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The Condor and the Cows, A South American Travel Diary
• Christopher Isherwood
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 268 PAGES
Isherwood's congenial account of travels through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina in 1947 with photographer (and boyfriend) Bill Caskey. The six-month journey included Machu Pichu and Cuzco. With 40 black-and-white photographs. Admittedley not one of his major works (he had a contract to write a travel book), The Condor and Cows nonetheless displays Isherwood's wonderful prose style and way with the offhand remark.
(SAM64, $17.95) |
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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 •
2004 •
PAPER
• 282 PAGES
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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Jungles
• Frans Lanting
• Christine Eckstrom
NATURAL HISTORY •
2011 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
Bringing together 120 color photographs taken over a period of 20 years in jungles from the lowlands of the Congo to the cloud forests of the Andes, Lanting interprets the aesthetic splendor and the remarkable natural history of the tropical rainforest -- a realm of bewildering complexity where nothing is the way it first appears. "While the essence of photography is to show, jungles hide, or at best, suggest," Lanting writes. "So I opted to show impressions of jungles to evoke a sense of their kaleidoscopic nature -- the glimpses of faces that melt into shadows, the bursts of color and shimmering light."
(AMZ65, $19.99) |
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Requiem for Nature
• John Terborgh
NATURAL HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 248 PAGES
• FAVORITE
A passionate and thoughtful plea for conservation of the rain forest from a noted biologist. John Terborgh's view of the fate of the rain forest, threatened by constant economic demands, can be quite dismal, but his informed arguments and his unwavering devotion to biodiversity are more than welcome. With a new preface by the author.
(FST07, $29.50) |
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