CENTRAL AMERICA
Honduras   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $65, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCAM59)		  
Moon Handbook Honduras  •  Chris Humphrey
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 500 PAGES
A great resource for the independent traveler, this guidebook features a good introduction to the land, history and culture of Honduras, as well as practical detail on getting around, where to go, and where to stay. With 35 detailed maps, a Spanish glossary to Honduran slang, and articles on the Copan ruins, the Bay Islands and the Rio Plantano Biosphere Reserve. (CAM73, $19.95)		   Moon Handbook Honduras
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)		   Maya Art and Architecture
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, $16.00)		   Tropical Nature
Honduras Map  •  ITMB
2011 •  MAP
A travel map of Honduras at a scale of 1:750,000 with good topographic relief. One Side. 23x39 inches. (CAM23, $12.95)		   Honduras Map



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Lonely Plant Honduras & the Bay Islands  •  Lonely Planet Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the popular series. (CAM118, $22.99)
 		  
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, $25.95)
 		  
Central America, A Nation Divided  •  Ralph Lee Woodward   • HISTORY  •  A balanced standard history of the region -- popular as a university textbook and thoroughly revised to reflect the momentous events in the region since 1976. With an extensive guide to further reading. (CAM80, $39.95)
 		  
Coffee and Power, Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America  •  Jeffery M. Paige   • HISTORY  •  Panoramic in scope, this scholarly history examines the emerging democracies of Central America and especially the political impact on powerful families who control coffee production. (CAM50, $30.00)
 		  
Forgotten Continent  •  Michael Reid   • HISTORY  •  Economist editor Reid draws on his years in the cities, presidential palaces and shantytowns of Central and South America in this portrait of a region rich in oil, farmland and culture, and its prospects in the face of globalization. (SAM123, $22.00)
 		  
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, $19.95)
 		  
An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central America  •  Joyce Kelly   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  The clear descriptions, site plans, maps and photographs of 38 archeological sites and 25 museums throughout Central America make this book an ideal travel companion. (MYA04, $19.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Lost King of the Maya  •  Nova   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Mesmerizing photography of Copan and its surrounding jungle, along with input from top experts on the Maya, make this Nova feature an excellent introduction to the Maya. (MYA63, $29.95)
 		  
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. We also carry Coe's classic text The Maya. ($24.95, Item MYA10) (MYA26, $19.95)
 		  
Scribes, Warriors and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya  •  William L Fash   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A comprehensive, illustrated overview of the great city of Copan, its rise to power, history and mysterious collapse in the ninth century. Fash pays particular attention to the role of recently deciphered inscriptions in our changing understanding of the Maya. (MYA11, $24.95)
 		  
The Art of Mesoamerica, from Olmec to Aztec  •  Mary Ellen Miller   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An excellent survey of Mesoamerican art and architecture from 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest. Compact and profusely illustrated, it includes drawings, photographs and site plans. (MYA09, $21.95)
 		  
The Maya  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  The eighth edition of Coe's clear, concise and authoritative, illustrated survey of the Maya. (MYA10, $26.95)
 		  
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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)
 		  
The Mosquito Coast  •  Paul Theroux   • LITERATURE  •  This taught psychological novel about a man who abandons civilization for the wilds of Honduras is both an adventure story and a dark utopian tale of colonial ambitions run amok. (CAM34, $14.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
A Neotropical Companion  •  John 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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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