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These 6 items are available for $89, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXGML06)

Rough Guide Guatemala  •  Rough Guide GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 511 PAGES A comprehensive guide, our favorite for Guatemala, with good cultural information and the best overview of where to go and what to do throughout the country. It's got consistently more -- and more accurate -- information on markets, towns and excursions than the competition. The contexts section at the back of the book, with historical and cultural information, is equally as strong. With sections on Copan and the Honduran Bay Islands. (CAM89, $21.99)
Guatemala in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture  •  Trisha O'Kane GUIDEBOOK •  2000 •  PAPER  • 94 PAGES This slim guide focuses on the history of Guatemala, its cultural heritage and current political, environmental and economic challenges. With maps, photographs and some travel information. It's an excellent synopsis from an unabashedly left-leaning perspective, strong on facts. (GML04, $12.95)
Maya Art and Architecture  •  Mary Ellen Miller ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES Organized thematically, this book by Yale art historian Mary Ellen Miller surveys the art and architecture throughout Mayadom. She makes use of the latest discoveries at Tikal, Copan, Palenque and other Maya sites to present the range of art from architecture, to sculpture, ceramics and murals. The text is much enhanced by 200 illustrations, 50 in color, including site plans, maps, strikingly rendered reconstructions and color photographs of key temples and buildings. For the traveler interested in better understanding Maya art -- and particularly the glyphs featured on Maya sculpture -- we couldn't recommend this book more highly. (MYA20, $19.95)
Lost Cities of the Maya  •  Claude Baudez  •  Sydney Picasso ARCHAEOLOGY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 175 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE A pocket guide to Maya archaeology. This lavishly illustrated small book features hundreds of color photographs and illustrations -- along with excerpts from key works and a brief guide to Maya arithmetic, their calendar and inscriptions. (MYA01, $12.95)
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, $14.00)
Guatemala Map  •  ITMB 2008 •  MAP A detailed, double-sided travel map of Guatemala at the very good scale of 1:470,000. Two Sides. 26 x 39 inches. (CAM24, $12.95)

Guatemala & Belize Map  •  World Mapping Project    •  Water- and -tear proof with parks, preserves, underwater features and topography. (CAM101, $9.99)
Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish  •  Joseph Keenan   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Idioms, common mistakes in word usage, and other helpful advice on tackling spoken Spanish. You'll need some foundation to take full advantage of this book -- but even a complete novice will appreciate the author's playful sense of humor. (CAM06, $19.95)
Lonely Planet Guatemala  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, practical guide to Guatemala with 35 local and city maps, color photographs and extensive information on where to go and what to do. (CAM85, $19.99)
A Brief History of Central America  •  Hector Perez-Brignoll   • HISTORY  •  A good overview of the region's economic, political and social history through the 1980s by a professor at the University of Costa Rica. Well-written, informative and concise. (CAM49, $21.95)
A Short History of Progress  •  Ronald Wright   • HISTORY  •  These succint essays, originally presented as a radio broadcast, analyze the rise and fall of great societies, including Maya, Roman, Sumerian, Ancient Chinese and Easter Island. (WLD62, $14.95)
Bitter Fruit, The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala  •  Stephen Schlesinger  •  Stephen Kinzer   • HISTORY  •  A foreign policy classic first published in 1982, brilliantly written and devastating in its implications. Schlesinger and Kinzer provide a dramatic account of the CIA-backed overthrow of Guatemala's democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. (CAM82, $22.95)
The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War  •  Mark Danner   • HISTORY  •  A reconstruction of a 1981 massacre in El Salvador and the role of the United States. (CAM67, $15.00)
Unfinished Conquest, The Guatemalan Tragedy  •  Daniel Chauche  •  Victor Perera   • HISTORY  •  An oral history of devastating 30-year civil war; Perera interviewed hundreds of people for this astonishing book, not only the resilient Maya but also landowners, government officials, military personnel and clergy. (CAM83, $29.95)
Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town  •  Carol Hendrickson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An ethnography of contemporary life in the Guatemalan highlands, and a study of the political significance and role of traditional costume. (GML07, $19.95)
An Album of Maya Architecture  •  Tatiana Proskouriakoff   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Scholar, artist and architect Proskouriakoff presents breathtaking artistic reconstructions of what Maya cities may have looked like in their heyday in this classic work, first published in 1946. (MYA06, $34.95)
Breaking the Maya Code  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Mayan hieroglyphs were a linguistic puzzle until the 1952 breakthrough translation of a Mayan bark-paper text, as Coe explains in this history. The book also includes an extensive discussion of Maya studies and political activism in the wake of the linguistic discovery. (MYA30, $19.95)
Maya Color, The Painted Villages of Mesoamerica  •  Jeff Becom   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A vibrant celebration of the modern Maya in 150 illustrations in full-color (naturally), with accompanying essays and interviews. (MYA56, $50.00)
Reading the Maya Glyphs  •  Mark Van Stone  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  This compact illustrated guide to commonly encountered Maya hieroglyphs provides an excellent introduction to Maya writing for the traveler. (MYA26, $19.95)
The Maya  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A clear, concise and up-to-date introduction to Maya archaeology and culture by a leading authority. Now in its seventh edition, this volume in the "Ancient Peoples and Places" series highlights the chronology, accomplishments and legacy of the Maya. (MYA10, $24.95)
Guatemala: Never Again!  •  Thomas Quigley   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Eyewitness testimony of the war conducted by the military against Guatemala's indigenous population during the 36-year civil war. (CAM88, $30.00)
Guatemalan Journey  •  Stephen Connely Benz   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Opening with a long chapter on life in Guatemala City, Benz's memoir moves on to the remote highlands and other little-visited regions. An excellent account of Guatemala's political history, traditions, and indigenous cultures. (GML03, $19.95)
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala  •  Rigoberta Menchu  •  Elisabeth Burgos-Debray   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, Menchu speaks eloquently of her struggles against the military for a decent way of life. Although some of the book's events have been called into question, it is a compelling testimony to the power of a strong-minded, ordinary person and her love for her land. (GML01, $22.95)
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan: Volume One  •  John Lloyd Stephens   • EXPLORATION  •  The first volume of Stephens' 1841 account, an instant bestseller and still an excellent introduction to the people, culture and archaeology of Central America. It follows Stephens through Belize and Guatemala, with several chapters on Copan. With 127 engravings by Frederick Catherwood. (MYA33, $16.95)
Time Among the Maya, Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico  •  Ronald Wright   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Wright combines journalism, archaeology and an ear for dialogue in this engaging account of travels among the contemporary Maya. (CAM84, $16.00)
Travelers' Tales Central America  •  Larry Habegger  •  Natanya Pearlman   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Organized thematically with contributions set in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, this collection of eyewitness reports includes Joan Didion, P.J. O'Rourke and Paul Theroux. (CAM96, $17.95)
Antigua and My Life Before  •  Marcela Serrano  •  Margaret Sayers Peden   • LITERATURE  •  Set in Santiago, Chile, and the Guatemalan city of Antigua, this is the story of two women --- one a famous singer, the other an artist/architect -- and a tragic shooting that sparks off memories of their friendship. (CRB121, $14.00)
Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life  •  Dennis Tedlock   • LITERATURE  •  The definitive, unabridged collection of creation myths and stories of the Quiche people, fundamental to understanding the worldview of the highland Maya. (MYA14, $16.99)
Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya, A Guide  •  Victoria Schlesinger   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive guide to the natural and cultural history of 100 plants and animals of the Maya world, primarily those from the lowland tropical forest of Central America but also including savanna, mangrove and coral reef habitats. (MYA29, $29.95)
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide  •  L.H. Emmons   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Compact enough to slip into your daypack, this guide to the mammals of the New World tropics features 29 color plates of more than 200 species. (GPS12, $39.00)
The Birds of Tikal, An Annotated Checklist  •  Randall Beavers   • FIELD GUIDE  •  The serious birder will find this annotated list of birds found at Tikal a useful adjunct to a field guide. With a 40-page introduction to the region, a few black-and-white photographs, checklist and notes. (GML08, $12.95)