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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Lonely Planet Bolivia
Kate Armstrong
GUIDEBOOK
2007
PAPER
432 PAGES
A practical guide with detailed maps, language guides, tips on transportation, accommodations, food, health and safety advice, as well as good background on history, culture and politics.
(BOL07, $24.99) |
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A Concise History of Bolivia
Herbert Klein
HISTORY
2003
PAPER
300 PAGES
An excellent survey by a professor of Latin American History at Columbia University. Klein has also written "Bolivia, The Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society."
(BOL12, $25.99) |
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Lines in the Water, Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca
Benjamin Orlove
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2002
PAPER
287 PAGES
An illuminating, personal account of life in the Andean highlands by an anthropologist who has lived and worked in Bolivia and Peru over the past three decades. With photographs by the author and the usual scholarly paraphernalia. Orlove is especially interested in the relationship of the lake-dwelling fishermen to their environment.
(BOL18, $23.95) |
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Bolivia Map
ITMB
MAP
A color map of the country at a scale of 1:1,250,000. Includes place index.
(BOL11, $10.95) |
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Bradt Bolivia
David Atkinson
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide in the popular series.
(BOL23, $22.95) |
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Bradt Trekking Guide Peru and Bolivia
Hilary Bradt
GUIDEBOOK
This classic guide for exploring the Andes of Peru and Bolivia is great for both practical trail information and general information on the region. It's a compact overview, featuring walks, treks and an extensive introduction.
(BOL04, $17.95) |
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Culture Shock! Bolivia
Mark Cramer
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(BOL22, $15.95) |
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Footprint Bolivia Handbook
Alan Murphy
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive and sturdy guide to Bolivia by the publishers of the South America Handbook.
(BOL10, $24.95) |
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Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook
Nilda Callaanaupa
Ronald Wright
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A resource for travelers to Peru and Bolivia, this pocket phrasebook contains essential vocabulary and idioms of the most widely spoken language in the Andes.
(PRU36, $7.99) |
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Trekking in the Central Andes: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Rob Rachowiecki
GUIDEBOOK
A compact overview of suggested hikes and treks in the Andes of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. With day-by-day trail descriptions, two-color maps, and a guide to archaeological sites.
(AND50, $19.99) |
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Understanding Bolivia, A Traveller's History
Vivien Lougheed
GUIDEBOOK
This essential guidebook explores Bolivia's cultures from Tiwanakans and Inca to the present day Aymara and Quechuas, showing an indigenous, rural people struggling inventively within the global economy.
(BOL25, $24.95) |
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A Whispering in the Giant's Ear, Three Years in Bolivia's Amazon And Andes
William Powers
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An eye-opening account of the economic and political stuggle in Bolivia by an aid worker.
(BOL20, $19.95) |
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Bolivia, The Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society
Herbert Klein
HISTORY
A scholarly look at the cultural history of Bolivia.
(BOL01, $34.95) |
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Conquest of the Incas
John Hemming
HISTORY
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.
(AND04, $25.00) |
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Digging Up Butch and Sundance
Anne Meadows
HISTORY
A woman and her husband try to uncover the truth behind the story of the famous outlaws.
(USW351, $22.00) |
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I Am Rich Potosi, The Mountain that Eats Men
Stephen Ferry
Eduardo Galeano
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A gorgeous color photo essay focusing on the people and history of Potosi, a silver center in the Bolivian highlands.
(BOL09, $45.00) |
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Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830
Robert Harvey
HISTORY
An epic history of colonial Latin America, focused on the heroism and derring-do of seven legendary men, including Simon Bolivar and General Jose de San Martin, in the fight for independence from Spain.
(SAM35, $18.95) |
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Mountain of the Condor, Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu
Joseph W. Bastien
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An account of the rituals practiced by a small community inhabiting Kaata, a sacred mountain in midwestern Bolivia.
(AND28, $16.50) |
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano
Cedric Belfrage
HISTORY
The most wrenchingly beautiful history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America ever written.
(AND26, $18.00) |
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Art of the Andes, from Chavin to Inca
Rebecca Stone-Miller
ARCHAEOLOGY
This illustrated, authoritative and concise survey of Andean art and architecture covers not only Machu Picchu and other Inca monuments, but also Chan Chan, Nasca and other archaeological sites and cultures.
(PRU05, $18.95) |
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Devil in the Mountain
Simon Lamb
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A personable memoir of geology and geological field work in the Bolivian Andes. It's a terrific book, not just for its insights into Bolivia, but also for its contribution to understanding how our planet works.
(BOL19, $19.95) |
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Sun After Dark, Flights into the Foreign
Pico Iyer
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A splendid collection of reports from the field, ranging from Bolivia to Cambodia, Tibet and Arabia, by the engaging Pico Iyer -- an inveterate traveler and talker, pulling in people and encounters in settings that range from the Altiplano to the Arabian desert and Easter Island.
(TVL33, $13.95) |
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The Incas, People of the Sun
Carmen Bernard
Paul Bahn
EXPLORATION
A colorful pocket encyclopedia of Inca history and archaeology, featuring hundreds of drawings and photographs, a chronology and long excerpts from the journals of early explorers.
(AND03, $12.95) |
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The Motorcycle Diaries, Notes on a Latin American Journey
Ann Wright
Ernesto Che Guevara
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The adventures of the 23-year-old Ernesto "Che" Guevara, as he wanders through South America in 1952 with his companion Alberto Granado, before he became a famed revolutionary.
(SAM20, $14.95) |
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Fire from the Andes, Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
Susan E. Benner
ANTHOLOGY
An anthology of contemporary stories from the Andes, this book includes contributions by 24 women from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Mostly personal, many of the stories revolve around peasants, the urban poor and other marginalized members of society.
(AND17, $24.95) |
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The Fat Man from La Paz, Contemporary Fiction from Bolivia
Rosario Santos
ANTHOLOGY
Twenty stories by Bolivian authors, many of them little-known in the United States. This anthology reveals much about the culture, politics and daily lives of Bolivians over the past 50 years.
(BOL17, $16.95) |
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American Visa
Juan De Recacoechea
MYSTERY
A stylish textured tale of crooked politicians, social outcasts, set in the streets of La Paz.
(BOL24, $14.95) |
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Juan de la Rosa, Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement
Nataniel Aguirre
Sergio Gabriel Waisman
LITERATURE
A Bolivian classic, first published in 1885, whose octogenarian narrator looks back on his youth as a soldier in the South American Independence Movement. It's a historical novel on a grand scale.
(BOL14, $38.00) |
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Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, A Bilingual Anthology
Stephen Tapscott
LITERATURE
A scholarly anthology of 400 poems, presented in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) and English. Selections include poems from Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges.
(SAM28, $27.95) |
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A Neotropical Companion
J.C. Kricher
Mark Plotkin
NATURAL HISTORY
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 overview of the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America.
(GPS11, $29.95) |
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A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
Steven Hilty
William Brown
FIELD GUIDE
A classic South American bird guide with good coverage of the upper Amazon basin. It illustrates 1,700 species -- nearly half of all the species of South America.
(FG14, $67.50) |
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Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide
L.H. Emmons
FIELD GUIDE
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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