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Posada Amazonas Experience   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Insight Guide Amazon Wildlife  •  Huw Hennessy  •  Hans-Ulrich Bernard
GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES
An illustrated guide to the region, its wildlife and conservation by an international team of biologists and photographers. It covers biogeography, habitats, animal groups and conservation problems in a series of short essays. Several chapters are devoted to the people of the region and to a country-by-country survey of the river's features. It also includes some practical travel information and a short checklist of mammals and birds. (AMZ03, $22.95)
  Insight Guide Amazon Wildlife
Peru, Travellers' Wildlife Guides  •  David L. Pearson  •  Les Beletsky
FIELD GUIDE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 500 PAGES
A convenient illustrated guide to the birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and insects from the Peruvian Amazon and Andes to the Pacific coast. Featuring 500 color illustrations. (PRU30, $29.95)
  Peru, Travellers' Wildlife Guides
La Doctora, The Journal of an American Doctor Practicing Medicine of the Amazon River  •  Linnea Smith
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 238 PAGES
Those of you who have visited the Amazon Center for Environmental Eduaction and Research foundation may have met Dr. Linnea and seen her Clinica Yanamono near the Explorama Lodge in the upper Amazon of Peru. This is her insightful, heartfelt and funny memoir of life in the region. (AMZ43, $16.95)
  La Doctora, The Journal of an American Doctor Practicing Medicine of the Amazon River
Tropical Nature  •  Adrian Forsyth  •  Ken Miyata
NATURAL HISTORY •  1984 •  PAPER  • 248 PAGES • BEST SELLER • 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, $14.00)
  Tropical Nature
Peru Map  •   Borch Maps
2007 •  MAP
A detailed laminated relief map of Peru at a scale of 1:1,750,000. This is a very clear, colorful map, which also features detailed insets of Lima and Cusco, and even a site plan of Maccu Picchu. Peru itself is broken into three sections: North, Central, South. (PRU02, $10.95)
  Peru Map
 

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Insight Guide Peru  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Panoramic in scope, this illustrated overview brings Peru to life in hundreds of color photographs and vivid essays by a team of experts writing on history, archaeology and culture. (PRU01, $22.95)
 
 
Jungle Travel and Survival  •  John Walden, M.D.   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Medical doctor and frequent Amazon-traveler Walden provides useful advice on avoiding malaria, parasites, poisonous and dangerous animals, dehydration and much more in this compact guide. (AMZ73, $18.95)
 
 
Walking the Jungle, An Adventurer's Guide to the Amazon  •  John Coningham   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Coningham, an experienced outdoorsman who lives in the Brazilian Amazon, offer down-to-earth advice in this companionable guide. (AMZ83, $16.95)
 
 
The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest, Stories from a Vanishing World  •  Nigel J.H. Smith   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A wonderfully presented collection of observations from the Amazon, this is a good introduction to the people, culture and geography of the rain forest. (AMZ26, $29.95)
 
 
The Mapmaker's Wife  •  Robert Whitaker   • HISTORY  •  Colonial politics, the travails of the cartographer, and good old-fashioned murder all add intrigue to this absorbing tale of 18th-century European exploration of the Amazon -- and one woman's quest to find her husband deep in the jungle. (AMZ97, $13.00)
 
 
A Land of Ghosts, The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia  •  David Campbell   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Campbell writes with flair and insight of the people, history and ecological discoveries in the far western reaches of the Amazon Basin, a place where he has focused much of his work. (AMZ90, $18.95)
 
 
Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness  •  Peter Matthiessen   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del Fuego. (SAM02, $16.00)
 
 
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon  •  William Herndon  •  Gary Kinder   • EXPLORATION  •  An original account of 19th-century exploration of the Amazon by Captain Herndon, who traveled from Lima to the Pacific coast of Brazil. (AMZ67, $14.00)
 
 
Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology  •  Margaret Lowman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The sprightly memoir of an ecologist who climbs, studies and sleeps in trees for a living, balancing multiple roles of scientist, wife and mom. She continues her story in a second memoir (written with her now-grown sons). (AMZ57, $13.95)
 
 
One River, Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon  •  Wade Davis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A spellbinding, sprawling tale of explorers, botanical secrets, and larger-than-life personalities in northwest South America. (AMZ22, $17.00)
 
 
Running the Amazon  •  Joe Kane   • EXPLORATION  •  A best-selling account of a 4,000-mile expedition from the high Andes to the Atlantic by foot, raft and kayak -- an expedition only four of the ten participants finished. (AMZ13, $14.00)
 
 
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice  •  Mark Plotkin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  In this marvelous book, Plotkin recounts his work documenting the use of medicinal plants among remote tribes in the Northwest Amazon of Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana and French Guiana. The book is a portrait of people and their environment, a tale of adventure and, most of all, a moving example of science in the service of preservation. A great read for anyone traveling anywhere on the Amazon. (AMZ15, $16.00)
 
 
Two to Tango  •  Peter Guttridge   • MYSTERY  •  Dangerous creatures -- and killers -- in the Amazon threaten journalist Nick Madrid as he attempts to prevent the murder of a rockstar in the third book of this popular series. (AMZ98, $14.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
Birds of Tropical America  •  Steven Hilty   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Hilty serves up essays on how to find and better appreciate the dizzying variety of birds, their habits and habitats, diversity and distribution. (CAM39, $19.95)
 
 
The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon  •  Michael Goulding  •  Ronaldo Barthem  •  Efrem Ferreira   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A profusely illustrated, full-color atlas of the river and its major tributaries with 150 maps. (AMZ82, $39.95)
 
 
A Field Guide to Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon  •  James L. Castner  •  Stephen L. Timme  •  James A. Duke   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A photographic identification guide focusing on the practical uses of common plants of the tropical forest. (AMZ39, $38.00)
 
 
A Field Guide to the Birds of Peru  •  James Clements  •  Noam Shany  •  Dana Gardner  •  Eustace Barnes   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive field guide to the birds of Peru, featuring 127 color plates and illustrating almost 1,800 species, focusing on their identification, habitat, and distribution. (PRU21, $60.00)
 
 
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Peru  •  Clive Byers   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy shirt pocket guide. (PRU75, $15.95)
 
 
Amazon Insects - A Photo Guide  •  James L. Castner   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Spectacular, weird, and commonly encountered bugs, butterflies, katydids, leafhoppers, ants, bees, spiders and other insects of the Amazon basin. Geared for the traveler, this handy book features 200 color photographs and accompanying text. (AMZ63, $20.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
Birds of Peru  •  Tom Schulenberg  •  Dan Stotz  •  John O'Neill  •  Dan Lane   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Gorgeously illustrated, this authoritative guide covers nearly 20% of the world's birds. (PRU55, $49.50)
 
 
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)
 
 
Peru Mammals Guide  •   Rainforest Publications   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy, double-sided laminated card depicting over 60 commonly encountered mammals of Peru. Beautiful and accurate full-color illustrations. (PRU73, $6.95)
 
 
Peru, Birds of the Forest  •   Rainforest Publications   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy, double-sided laminated card depicting 100 commonly encountered parrots, motmots, hummingbirds and other forest birds of Peru. (PRU72, $6.95)
 
 
Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon  •  R.D. Bartlett  •  Patricia Bartlett   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A convenient guide to 250 colorful and commonly encountered snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs and salamanders of the Amazon. (AMZ84, $29.95)
 
 


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