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Ecuador: Quito & the Highlands   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $61, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXEDR29)		  
The Panama Hat Trail  •  Tom Miller
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES • FAVORITE
Miller's entertaining and insightful social history of Ecuador -- as told through its hat-making history. It's a classic example of travel writing, and one of the best things written on Ecuador. Originally published in 1986, much of the book is set in Cuenca and along the Pacific coast of Ecuador. (EDR15, $14.00)		   The Panama Hat Trail
Culture Shock! Ecuador  •  Nicholas Crowder
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (EDR25, $15.95)		   Culture Shock! Ecuador
Insight Guide Ecuador and Galapagos  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES
Profusely illustrated, this compact guide introduces the natural history, politics and culture and wildlife of Ecuador. Contributors to this edition include Tui de Roy (Galapagos photography), Lynn Meisch (arts, crafts and customs) and Rob Rachoweicki (Oriente). (EDR01, $22.99)		   Insight Guide Ecuador and Galapagos
Ecuador Map  •  Borch Maps
2005 •  MAP
A detailed laminated map of Ecuador at a scale of 1:1,000,000. This is a very clear, colorful double-sided map with detailed insets of Quito, Guayaquil, Galapagos and the Ecuadorian Amazon (Oriente) on the reverse. Two Sides. 35x20 inches. (EDR03, $10.95)		   Ecuador Map



Also Recommended

Quito and Northern Ecuador  •  ITMB    •  A full color map of Quito and surroundings for the traveler, at a scale of 1:12,500. (EDR10, $10.95)
 		  
Ecuador in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture  •  Wilma Roos  •  Omer van Renterghem   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim guide provides a lively overview of Ecuador's history, cultural heritage and political, environmental and economic challenges. (EDR02, $12.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Ecuador & Galapagos Islands  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent practical guide to Ecuador and Galapagos for independent travelers. (GPS04, $23.99)
 		  
Viva Travel Guides Ecuador, Climbing and Hiking  •  Rob Rachowiecki   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide draws on the Viva online community for its in-depth recommendations. (EDR33, $23.95)
 		  
Banana, The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World  •  Dan Koeppel   • HISTORY  •  Koeppel traces the history, natural and otherwise, politics and precarious current status of modern monoculture, touching down in India (world center of banana diversity), Ecuador (world's largest producer) and Central America. (CAM137, $16.00)
 		  
Ecuador Reader, History, Culture, Politics  •  Carlos De La Torre  •  Steve Striffler   • HISTORY  •  A portrait of a nation. This lively sourcebook gathers selections from long out-of-print travel accounts, articles, interviews, poems, literary excerpts (and even a recipe) to document the vitality and diversity of modern Ecuador. (EDR24, $26.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador  •  Ann Pollard Rowe  •  Lynn Meisch   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A well-illustrated, authoritative overview of textiles and textile traditions in the Andes of Ecuador. (EDR23, $45.00)
 		  
Woven Stories, Andean Textiles and Rituals  •  Andrea Heckman   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An illustrated survey of Quechua textiles, traditions, designs and daily life. (AND43, $45.00)
 		  
Cloud Road  •  John Harrison   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A captivating account of a 1,500-mile journey along the Andes from Ecuador to Peru. Mostly on foot, either alone or with his girlfriend Elaine, sometimes by bus and, partly in the company of the obstreperous donkey Dapple, Harrison weaves a tale of the people he meets with history and lore. (SAM154, $14.95)
 		  
Ecuador, A Travel Journal  •  Henri Michaux  •  Robin Magowan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  A brief, querulous and entirely wonderful narrative of the modernist painter Michaux's travels with the poet Gangotena, strong on color and personality. Its many pleasures include an unbeatable description of Quito's accursed mountain weather. (EDR16, $17.95)
 		  
Living Poor  •  Moritz Thomsen   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Moritz's heartfelt account of his small triumphs and tragedies as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village on the Ecuadorian coast is a classic. (EDR13, $26.95)
 		  
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. (AND17, $29.95)
 		  
Through the Eyes of the Condor, An Aerial Vision of Latin America  •  Robert B. Haas   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  This collection of stunning, oversized photographs, taken from above, shows the jungles and favellas, the reefs and ruins, wildlife and diverse landscapes of Latin America. (SAM122, $50.00)
 		  
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth  •  Maurice Krafft   • NATURAL HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992), this pocket guide features hundreds of full-color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. (GEO06, $15.95)
 		  
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Ecuador and Galapagos  •  Clive Byers   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Two hundred and fifty-two of Ecuador's most interesting and spectacular birds are featured in this shirt pocket guide, each illustrated in full color with key information and range map. (EDR27, $19.95)
 		  
Birds of Ecuador, A Field Guide  •  Paul Greenfield  •  Robert Ridgely   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive, gorgeous and exhaustively researched field guide to the birds of Ecuador (and adjacent countries), featuring 96 color plates. It's also the best bird guide for travelers in the Peruvian Amazon. (EDR08, $55.00)
 		  
 
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