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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO7848. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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Insight Guide Peru
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
2008
PAPER
368 PAGES
In its hallmark style, this guide brings Peru to life in hundreds of color photographs and vividly written essays by a team of experts. Panoramic in scope, the book takes us from the crowded streets of Lima to famed archeological sites, providing genuine insight into a complex land and people. Its chapters include a history of the Incas, daily life in the Andes, the author and politician Mario Vargas Llosa and an overview of people of the Amazon. With some travel information.
(PRU01, $22.95) |
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A Desert Bestiary, Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World's Dry Places
Gregory McNamee
ANTHOLOGY
1997
PAPER
192 PAGES
From the ant to the wolf, this is a lively, informative tribute to desert animals and their place in literature, folklore and ecology.
(DES08, $14.95) |
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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) |
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Bradt Trekking Guide Peru and Bolivia
Hilary Bradt
GUIDEBOOK
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 walks, treks and an extensive introduction.
(BOL04, $17.95) |
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Desert Survival Skills
David Alloway
GUIDEBOOK
A friendly, humorous guide to short-term and long-term survival in the desert.
(DES06, $24.95) |
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Footprint Peru Handbook
Alan Murphy
GUIDEBOOK
A general overview of Peru and practical travel detail on where to go and what to do.
(PRU27, $24.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Peru Reader, History, Culture, Politics
Orin Starn
HISTORY
Lively and literate, this meaty anthology ranges from historical accounts to modern analysis.
(PRU04, $25.95) |
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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) |
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Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
Alexander von Humboldt
EXPLORATION
This is the book that Darwin took on his voyage around the world -- a classic account of naturalist and explorer Humboldt's 18th-century discoveries in South America.
(SAM08, $17.00) |
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Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
EXPLORATION
BEST SELLER
FAVORITE
The wide-eyed tale of a young man on a five-year voyage that changed his life -- and our way of thinking about the world. First published in 1839, it's still a marvelous introduction to the wildlife, nature and allure of South America.
(GPS02, $12.95) |
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint Exupery
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
St. Exupery's luminous account of flying early postal routes over South America, Europe and the deserts of West Africa in the 1930s, including the classic tale of his crash in the Libyan desert.
(DES11, $13.00) |
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa
LITERATURE
The marvelous comic novel of scandal, soap opera and writing set in 1950's Lima.
(PRU48, $14.00) |
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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) |
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The Field Guide to Geology
David Lambert
FIELD GUIDE
This visual overview of geology by David Lambert and The Diagram Group introduces plate tectonics, rocks, rivers, seas and ice, climate change and other issues in more than 750 two-tone charts, maps and diagrams.
(GEO20, $16.95) |
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