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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)
  Lonely Planet Bolivia
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)
  A Concise History of Bolivia
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)
  Lines in the Water, Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca
Bolivia Map  •   ITMB
2008 •  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)
 
 
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  •  A comprehensive and sturdy guide to Bolivia by the publishers of the South America Handbook. (BOL10, $24.95)
 
 
Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook  •  Serafin M. Coronel-Molina  •    •  Richard A. Wright   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Essential vocabulary and idioms of the most widely spoken language thoughout the Andes. (PRU36, $8.99)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Bolivia, The Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society  •  Herbert Klein   • HISTORY  •  A scholarly look at the cultural history of Bolivia. (BOL01, $34.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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  •  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)
 
 
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, $18.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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  •  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)
 
 
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  •  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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide  •  L.H. Emmons   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A pictorial guide to the mammals of the New World tropics, compact enough to slip into your daypack, with 29 color plates of more than 200 species. (GPS12, $32.50)
 
 


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