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City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

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Barry Lopez

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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The Burning Season:The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest

The Burning Season:The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest


by Andrew Revkin

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

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, $30.00)

Darkness in El Dorado, How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

Darkness in El Dorado, How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon


by Patrick Tierney

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

A hard-hitting controversial indictment of anthropologists, government officials and others who sought to cash in on the study of the Yanomami, (AMZ64, $25.95)

The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest, Stories from a Vanishing World

The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest, Stories from a Vanishing World


by Nigel J.H. Smith

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1996
  • HARD COVER
  • 208 PAGES

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)

The Lost Steps

The Lost Steps


by Alejo Carpentier | Harriet Onis

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 278 PAGES

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, $18.50)

Tristes Tropiques

Tristes Tropiques


by Claude Levi-Strauss | John Weightman | Doreen Weightman

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

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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