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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)
	Bolivia in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture  •  Paul van Lindert  •  Otto Verkoren CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2009 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES Essential reading for any traveler to Bolivia, this concise book offers a synopsis of Bolivian politics and economy, history and culture. It's especially strong on economic changes, political upheaval and collapse of the mining industry in the 1980s, but also includes a good short summary of traditional culture and history from colonial times to the present. It's an excellent synopsis, left-leaning, and strong on facts. (BOL05, $17.00)
	Culture Smart! Bolivia  •  Keith Richards GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 168 PAGES A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice (BOL26, $9.95)
	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)
	Bolivia Map  •   ITMB 2008 •  MAP A color map of the country at a scale of 1:1,250,000. Includes place index. Two Sides. 39x27 inches. (BOL11, $12.95)

	Bradt Bolivia  •  David Atkinson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the popular series. (BOL23, $22.95)
	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)
	Culture Shock! Bolivia  •  Mark Cramer   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (BOL22, $15.95)
	Footprint Bolivia Handbook  •  Alan Murphy   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Built for the road, this is a comprehensive and sturdy guide to Bolivia by the publishers of the South America Handbook. (BOL10, $32.85)
	Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook  •  Serafin M. Coronel-Molina   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  This shirt-pocket guide is a surprisingly thorough introduction to not just the language but also the customs and culture of the Andes. (PRU36, $8.99)
	A Concise History of Bolivia  •  Herbert Klein   • HISTORY  •  From prehistory through independence, return of democracy in 1982, and current politics, this is an excellent survey of the Andean nation. (BOL12, $26.99)
	A Whispering in the Giant's Ear, Three Years in Bolivia's Amazon And Andes  •  William Powers   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An aid worker gives an eye-opening account of the economic and political stuggle in Bolivia. (BOL20, $19.95)
	Bolivia, The Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society  •  Herbert Klein   • HISTORY  •  Well written and definitive, this is a scholarly look at the cultural history of Bolivia from prehistory to modern times. (BOL01, $34.95)
	Conquest of the Incas  •  John Hemming   • HISTORY  •  This classic masterful prize-winning history of the Inca struggle against the Spanish invasion brings together wide-ranging scholarly material in the interests of telling a good story. (AND04, $25.00)
	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, $24.95)
	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)
	Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830  •  Robert Harvey   • HISTORY  •  Focused on the heroism and derring-do of seven legendary men, this epic history of colonial Latin America includes Simon Bolivar and General Jose de San Martin, in the fight for independence from Spain. (SAM35, $18.95)
	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)
	Art of the Andes, from Chavin to Inca  •  Rebecca Stone-Miller   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  This authoritative and concise illustrated survey of Andean art and architecture covers not only Machu Picchu and additional Inca monuments, but also Chan Chan, Nasca and other archaeological sites and cultures. (PRU05, $19.95)
	Devil in the Mountain  •  Simon Lamb   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This personable memoir of geology and geological field work in the Bolivian Andes is a terrific book, not just for its insights into Bolivia, but also for its contribution to understanding how our planet works. (BOL19, $22.95)
	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)
	The Incas, People of the Sun  •  Carmen Bernard  •  Paul Bahn   • EXPLORATION • BEST SELLER  •  Featuring hundreds of drawings and photographs, a chronology and long excerpts from the journals of early explorers, this is a colorful pocket encyclopedia of Inca history and archaeology. (AND03, $12.95)
	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)
	Fire from the Andes, Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru  •  Susan E. Benner   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Mostly personal, many of the contemporary stories revolve around peasants, the urban poor and other marginalized members of the Andes society. This anthology includes contributions by 24 women from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. (AND17, $24.95)
	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)
	City of Silver, A Mystery  •  Annamaria Alfieri   • LITERATURE  •  Mother Maria Santa Hilda, Abess of the convent of Santa Isabella de los Santos Milagros in Potosi is at the center of this satisfying, suspenseful tale, richly set in the 17th-century Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. The source of Spanish silver, Potosi was once the largest and wealthiest city in the Americas. (BOL27, $24.99)
	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, $39.99)
	Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, A Bilingual Anthology  •  Stephen Tapscott   • LITERATURE  •  This 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, $29.95)
	A Neotropical Companion  •  J.C. Kricher  •  Mark Plotkin   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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, $35.00)
	A Guide to the Birds of Colombia  •  Steven Hilty  •  William Brown   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This classic South American bird guide gives good coverage of the upper Amazon basin, illustrating 1,700 species -- nearly half of all the species of South America. (FG14, $75.00)
	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)

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