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Bradt Trekking Guide Peru and Bolivia
Hilary Bradt
GUIDEBOOK 2002 PAPER 358 PAGES
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 not only walks and treks but also an extensive introduction. Eighth edition.
(BOL04, $17.95)
Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook
Serafin M. Coronel-Molina Richard A. Wright
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS 2008 PAPER 226 PAGES
Essential vocabulary and idioms of the most widely spoken language thoughout the Andes.
(PRU36, $8.99)
The Peru Reader, History, Culture, Politics
Orin Starn
HISTORY 2005 PAPER 524 PAGES
A lively, literate anthology on the history and culture of Peru that ranges from historical accounts to modern analysis. It's a comprehensive introduction to the country. The excellent selections were made by a panel of Peruvian and foreign experts.
(PRU04, $25.95)
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)
Inca Trail: Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Cusco Map
Lima 2000
BEST SELLER
This indispensable map shows the whole Sacred Valley from Cuzco to Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu in splendid detail (1:50,000).
(PRU28, $9.95)
Footprint Cuzco & the Inca Heartland Handbook
Ben Box
Stephen Frankham
GUIDEBOOK
Comprehensive and up-to-date, this exceptional guide covers Cuzco and surroundings, including Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley, Tambopata, Manu Park and Lima in detail.
(PRU46, $23.95)
Peru in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture
Jane Holligan de Diaz-Limaco
GUIDEBOOK
Authoritative and up-to-date, this slim guide focuses on the history of Peru, its cultural heritage and current political, environmental and economic challenges. With maps, photographs and some travel information.
(PRU11, $12.95)
'Tambo, Life in an Andean Village
Julia Meyerson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A field journal, ethnographic in its detail, of an American artist's year among the Quechua peoples in the Peruvian Andes with her anthropologist husband.
(PRU38, $21.95)
Andean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani & Asunta Quispe Huaman
Paul Gelles
Ricardo Valderrama Fernandez
Carmen Escalante Gutierrez
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A classic oral history as told to two Peruvian anthropologists in the 1970s. It's a moving account of life among the urban poor in Cuzco, offering insight into history and society in the Andes.
(PRU14, $17.95)
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)
Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest, Huamanga to 1640
Steve J. Stern
HISTORY
A history of the inhabitants of Ayacucho, Peru, from Incan times to 1640.
(PRU37, $19.95)
Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques
Raoul d'Harcourt
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A reprint of a 1934 classic with illusrtations of hundreds of ancient textiles.
(AND44, $26.95)
The Monkey's Paw, New Chronicles from Peru
Robin Kirk
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A fascinating, multi-faceted portrait of the nation as shown through the travels and interviews of journalist Robin Kirk in Peru of the 1980s and 1990s.
(PRU24, $22.95)
The Shining Path, A History of the Millenarian War in Peru
Robin Kirk
Gustavo Gorriti
HISTORY
An absorbing account of the 15-year guerilla war waged by the Ayacucho-based Shining Path.
(PRU41, $29.95)
Woven Stories, Andean Textiles and Rituals
Andrea Heckman
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An illustrated survey of Quechua textiles, traditions, designs and daily life.
(AND43, $45.00)
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)
Yawar Fiesta
Jose Maria Arguedas
LITERATURE
A poetic novel of class and race relations in the Peruvian Andes in the first half of the 20th century. Arguedas, who learned Quechua from household servants as a child, was an impassioned advocate of cultural autonomy for indigenous peoples.
(PRU42, $14.50)
The Andes, As the Condor Flies
Tui De Roy
NATURAL HISTORY
These 350 stunning photographs take in the full sweep of the Andes, its wildlife and landscapes, from the cloud forests of Ecuador and altiplano to windswept Tierra del Fuego.
(SAM79, $35.00)
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)
Peru, Travellers' Wildlife Guides
David L. Pearson
Les Beletsky
FIELD GUIDE
Featuring 500 illustrations of the birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and insects of the Amazon, Andes and Pacific Coast.
(PRU30, $29.95)
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