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200 Conspicuous, Unusual, or Economically Important Tropical Plants of the Caribbean
• John Kingsbury
• FIELD GUIDE
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A general purpose plant identification guide to Caribbean shores, also useful for subtropical Florida. Features color photographs and short plant descriptions.
(CRB01, $20.00)
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Amazon Stranger, A Rainforest Chief Battles Big Oil
• Mike Tidwell
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A detailed, entertaining portrait of the Ecuadorian Amazon and its people.
(AMZ01, $16.95)
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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, $28.00)
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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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Birds of Tropical America
• Steven Hilty
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Hilty serves up essays on how to find and better appreciate the dizzying variety of birds, their habits and habitats, diversity and distribution.
(CAM39, $19.95)
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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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Costa Rican Natural History
• Daniel Janzen
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A thorough, prize-winning reader on all aspects of the natural history of Costa Rica, this hefty book is illustrated, remarkably well written -- and rewarding for the serious general reader.
(CAM05, $49.00)
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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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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 Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon
• James L. Castner
• Stephen L. Timme
• James A. Duke
• FIELD GUIDE
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A photographic identification guide focusing on the practical uses of common plants of the tropical forest.
(AMZ39, $38.00)
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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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High Jungles and Low
• Archie Carr
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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This absorbing memoir of slogging through the forest as a gun-toting tagalong on a commercial expedition in search of mahogany in the Honduran highlands is a classic. The book to read for anyone heading to the tropics.
(CAM01, $19.95)
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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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In Trouble Again
• Redmond O'Hanlon
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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As funny as he is insightful, O'Hanlon starts his comic masterpiece of a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon with a litany of creatures that can do you harm.
(AMZ04, $13.95)
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Insight Guide Amazon Wildlife
• Huw Hennessy
• Hans-Ulrich Bernard
• GUIDEBOOK
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Jammed with photographs, this compact guide introduces the people, wildlife, habitats, parks and preserves of the Amazon basin.
(AMZ03, $22.95)
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Into the Heart of Borneo
• Redmond O'Hanlon
• EXPLORATION
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An absurd (and true) story of a biologist's journey into the mountains of Sarawak in search of the fabled Borneo rhino. O'Hanlon's entertaining account mixes plenty of humor, detail on local peoples and natural history.
(BRN03, $12.95)
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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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Mammals of the Neotropics: The Southern Cone, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
• John F. Eisenberg
• Kent H. Redford
• REFERENCE
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Organized taxonomically, this thorough volume of species accounts includes external measurements, physical descriptions, geographical distribution, and information on their habitats.
(SAM14, $60.00)
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The Mosquito Coast
• Paul Theroux
• LITERATURE
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A taught psychological tale of a man who abandons civilization for the wilds of Honduras.
(CAM34, $14.95)
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My Island and I, The Nature of the Caribbean
• Alfonso Silva Lee
• Alexis Lago
• NATURAL HISTORY
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A colorful book for young children (ages 4 to 8) about the environment and biodiversity of the Caribbean islands.
(CRB171, $15.95)
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A Naturalist in Costa Rica
• Alexander Skutch
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A warm account of living and studying ornithology in the Pacific hills of Costa Rica over the last 35 years at what is now Los Cusingos Neotropical Bird Sanctuary. Skutch died on his ranch in 2004 just short of his 100th birthday.
(CAM09, $24.95)
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A Neotropical Companion
• J.C. Kricher
• Mark Plotkin
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A tropical primer aimed at the motivated general reader. From plants and animals to birds and bugs, it's all here in this wonderfully written primer on the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America.
(GPS11, $29.95)
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Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide
• L.H. Emmons
• FIELD GUIDE
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An illustrated guide to the mammals of the New World tropics, compact enough to slip into your daypack, with 29 color plates illustrating more than 200 species.
(GPS12, $32.50)
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One River, Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon
• Wade Davis
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A lyrical, meticulously researched book of discovery that is both a biography of the author's mentor, the director of the Harvard botanical museum Richard Schultes, and the story of his own botanical adventures throughout South America.
(AMZ22, $17.00)
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Rain Forest Revealed
• DK Publishing
• EXPLORATION
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A colorful children's guide to the flora and fauna of the rainforest, featuring transparent pages.
(NAT66, $12.99)
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The Rain Forests of Home, Profile of a North American Bioregion
• Peter Schoonmaker
• Bettina von Hagen
• Edward Wolf
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A detailed biological, cultural and historical portrait of the coastal rain forest. The result of a multidisciplinary conference, it's a gold mine of facts, figures and descriptive information on the region by a diverse group of experts.
(PNW08, $50.00)
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Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize
• Michael J. Balick
• Rosita Arvigo
• NATURAL HISTORY
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100 traditional herbs of Belize along with the culture and lore surrounding their use.
(BLZ10, $15.95)
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Requiem for Nature
• John Terborgh
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A passionate and thoughtful plea for conservation of the rain forest from a noted biologist.
(FST07, $29.50)
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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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The Shaman's Apprentice
• Lynne Cherry
• Mark Plotkin
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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The tale of a young boy's fascination with the magical world of the shaman.
(AMZ24, $16.00)
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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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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
• Mark Plotkin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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In this marvelous book, Plotkin recounts his work documenting the use of medicinal plants among remote tribes in the Northwest Amazon of Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana and French Guiana. The book is a portrait of people and their environment, a tale of adventure and, most of all, a moving example of science in the service of preservation. A great read for anyone traveling anywhere on the Amazon.
(AMZ15, $16.00)
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The Tapir's Morning Bath
• Elizabeth Royte
• SCIENCE
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An engaging account of ecological research and ecologists at Barro Colorado Island, the Smithsonian Institution's Tropical Research Station in Panama.
(AMZ74, $14.00)
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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 Classical, Essays from Several Directions
• Pico Iyer
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A bumper crop of essays and articles written by the ever-insightful Pico Iyer.
(TRV03, $14.95)
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Tropical Nature
• Adrian Forsyth
• Ken Miyata
• NATURAL HISTORY
• FAVORITE
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A lively, lucid portrait of the rain forest 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.
(GPS13, $14.00)
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