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Birds of Chile
• Alvaro Jaramillo
FIELD GUIDE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
A compact, comprehensive guide to 473 species in the Princeton Field Guide series with illustrations by David Beadle and Peter Burke, detailed range maps and condensed descriptive information, integrated on facing pages for easy reference in the field. It includes the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Jaramillo, a biologist born in Chile and raised in Toronto, leads birding trips throughout the Americas. A lifelong birder, he and Burke previously collaborated on a guide to the blackbirds of the Americas.
(CHI50, $29.95) |
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Birds of Ecuador, A Field Guide
• Paul Greenfield
• Robert Ridgely
FIELD GUIDE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 740 PAGES
Ecuador has its own field guide -- a comprehensive, exhaustively researched handbook to nearly 1,600 species featuring 96 glorious color plates, all by Paul Greenfield. Two decades in the making, it's an indispensable companion for birdwatching in Ecuador (and adjacent countries). It also weighs in at four pounds. With detailed range maps and descriptions of each species by Bob Ridgely. The same authors have published an accompanying guide to the status, distribution and taxonomy of the birds of Ecuador available separately (EDR07), or as a set (EDR 14).
(EDR08, $55.00) |
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Conquest of the Incas
• John Hemming
HISTORY •
1970 •
PAPER
• 641 PAGES
A masterful, prize-winning history of the Inca struggle against the Spanish invasion. This classic account, by one of the best writers on South America, brings together wide-ranging scholarly material in the interests of telling a good story. With a chronology, family tree, bibliography, notes and references.
(AND04, $25.00) |
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Ecuador, A Travel Journal
• Henri Michaux
• Robin Magowan
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
• FAVORITE
A brief, querulous and entirely wonderful account of travels in Ecuador with the poet Gangotena, strong on color and personality and thin on travel practicalities. First published in 1929, the unlikely modernist Belgian-French painter and poet in Quito includes an unbeatable description of the accursed weather among his many impressions. The translator, who also provides an introduction, called "Ecuador" the first modern travel book and its sketches, prose poems, diary fragments and ruminations are certainly closer to the surrealists than the Victorians.
(EDR16, $17.95) |
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The Explorers of South America
• Edward Goodman
EXPLORATION •
1992 •
PAPER
• 408 PAGES
A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. Goodman has marshaled his wide-ranging research and lifelong interest in exploration into a comprehensive, scholarly history. A reprint of the original 1972 edition, the tales have lost none of their luster. With maps, illustrations and extensive notes.
(SAM10, $26.95) |
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The Far Side of the World
• Patrick O'Brian
LITERATURE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 366 PAGES
This tale, set in 1812, features a trip around Cape Horn, as Stephen Maturin, Patrick O'Brian's wonderful opium-addicted naturalist, explores the New World with his pal Jack Aubrey. If you haven't yet been introduced to O'Brian's vivid portraits of Nelson's British Navy, here's your chance to dip into this fine series, with a book featuring evocative descriptions of Patagonian wildlife and features of the natural environment. A great read (and a great reread for O'Brian fans).
(SAM01, $14.95) |
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Footprint South American Handbook
• Ben Box
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 1760 PAGES
Published annually since 1924, this comprehensive guide is the bible of South American travel. An essential reference, it covers Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Galapagos, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and The Guianas in glorious detail. With a section of full color maps and hundreds of regional and city maps.
(SAM25, $34.95) |
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The Incas
• Carmen Bernard
• Paul Bahn
ARCHAEOLOGY •
1994 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• BEST SELLER
A pocket-size encyclopedia in the acclaimed "New Horizons" series, this jewel of a book features hundreds of archival drawings and photographs, a chronology and long excerpts from the journals of early explorers. It's a guide to the ancient monuments, daily life of the Incas and history of exploration.
(AND03, $15.95) |
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Modern Latin America
• Thomas E. Skidmore
• Peter Smith
HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 465 PAGES
A succinct history of 20th-century Latin America, extensively revised for this fifth edition. After setting the stage, the authors devote chapters to Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the Caribbean. It concludes with an analysis of the region and prognosis for the future. A popular text for college courses, this lively book offers much to the general reader. First published in 1984.
(SAM23, $64.95) |
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Night Flight
• Antoine de Saint Exupery
LITERATURE •
1986 •
PAPER
• 87 PAGES
Saint Exupery captures the thrill and mystery of early flight in this tale of a pilot alone in a storm over the Andes en route to Buenos Aires. Saint Exupery pioneered the first regular postal routes in South America and the Sahara in the 1920s.
(PAT09, $12.00) |
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The Old Patagonian Express
• Paul Theroux
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 404 PAGES
A delightful narrative of Paul Theroux's journey from Boston to Patagonia by rail, plane and truck. He starts out aboard the subway in Boston -- and ends up many months later at the end of the world, a bit worse for the wear. Along the way he encounters the elderly, nearly blind author Jorge Luis Borges and a cast of other fascinating characters.
(PAT08, $15.95) |
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
• Eduardo Galeano
• Cedric Belfrage
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 317 PAGES
The 25th anniversary edition of the landmark history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America. This wrenchingly beautiful book takes for one of its central metaphors the booms and busts of the Potosi mines in the Bolivian highlands. Using local slave labor, the 16th century Spaniards took billions of dollars worth of silver from a single hillside there. The British and Americans returned to the site centuries later to mine tin for their war machine. The book also takes on the banana republics of Central America, the Amazonian rubber plantations and the numerous American invasions throughout the region.
(AND26, $18.00) |
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Penguins of the World
• Wayne Lynch
NATURAL HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
In this handsomely produced book photographer, naturalist and expedition leader Wayne Lynch interweaves stories of penguins, their biology and ecology, along with hundreds of color photographs. Much of the book focuses on the penguins of the Antarctic Peninsula, Falklands and South Georgia.
(ANT62, $24.95) |
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Tropical Nature
• Adrian Forsyth
• Ken Miyata
NATURAL HISTORY •
1984 •
PAPER
• 248 PAGES
• FAVORITE
A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its 17 marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. With a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
(GPS13, $16.00) |
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Waiting to Fly, My Escapades with the Penguins of Antarctica
• Ron Naveen
NATURAL HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 384 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
The life and times of penguins -- and those who study and appreciate them -- by Ron Naveen, who is head-over-heels in love with the Antarctic and its most famous inhabitants. These essays weave anecdote, history and observation, combining tales of his research along the Antarctic Peninsula with accounts of exploration and -- of course -- penguins. With a section of photos.
(ANT69, $16.95) |
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