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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, $14.00)
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)
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 Education 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)
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
Mark Plotkin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 1994 PAPER 328 PAGES
FAVORITE
This is the stuff of adventure movies. Like Russ Mittermeir and Wade Davis, Mark Plotkin is the student of the extraordinary Richard Schultes at Harvard University, a pioneer in the field of ethnobotany. 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. He reminds us, "every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down."
(AMZ15, $16.00)
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. Two Sides. 20x39 inches.
(PRU02, $10.95)
Culture Smart! Peru
John Forrest
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(PRU64, $9.95)
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)
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)
Tree of Rivers, The Story of the Amazon
John Hemming
HISTORY
Hemming captures the ambition, greed and awe of naturalists, explorers and missionaries -- and their devastating impact on native peoples -- in this absorbing human history.
(AMZ114, $24.95)
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)
In Trouble Again
Redmond O'Hanlon
EXPLORATION
FAVORITE
As funny as he is insightful, O'Hanlon starts his comic masterpiece of a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon with a litany of the insects, protozoa, snakes and predators that can do you harm.
(AMZ04, $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, $18.00)
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, $14.95)
The Lost City of Z
David Grann
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
NEW
In this riveting, real-life adventure, New Yorker writer and middle-aged Brooklynite Grann sets out into the wild to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century" -- the fate of British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925. Though you may disagree with his conclusions about the fabled lost city that seduced Fawcett, Grann is a great storyteller.
(AMZ117, $15.95)
The Sea and the Jungle
H.M. Tomlinson
EXPLORATION
First published in 1912, this is a thoroughly unromanticized, absorbing account of a 2,000-mile journey by steamship deep into the Amazon. Understated and often hilarious.
(AMZ10, $18.00)
In the Heart of the Amazon Forest
Henry Walter Bates
LITERATURE
A choice excerpt from Bates' classic Naturalist of the River Amazonas (1863). Bates was one of a triumvirate of Victorian scientific explorers including Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
(AMZ109, $10.00)
Little Tiny Teeth
Aaron J. Elkins
MYSTERY
From the Edgar Award-winning author of Unnatural Selection comes this mystery to chill the bones. When a forensics professor joins an Amazon riverboat expedition, he expects a vacation. But in a jungle full of predators, he realizes the humans may be the deadliest of all.
(AMZ105, $7.99)
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)
The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon
Michael Goulding
Ronaldo Barthem
Efrem Ferreira
NATURAL HISTORY
This beautiful, profusely illustrated atlas of the river includes its major tributaries and 150 full-colro maps. Michael Goulding (Floods of Fortune) and Brazilian biologists Ronaldo Barthem and Efrem Ferreira provide the accompanying text.
(AMZ82, $39.95)
Wild Amazon, A Photographer's Incredible Journey
Nick Gordon
NATURAL HISTORY
With 200 color photographs of the wildlife and habitats of the Amazon basin.
(AMZ87, $34.95)
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 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 Peru
Tom Schulenberg
Dan Stotz
John O'Neill
Dan Lane
FIELD GUIDE
COMING IN JUNE
Gorgeously illustrated, this authoritative guide covers nearly 20% of the world's birds.
(PRU55, $39.50)
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)
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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