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	Ecuador in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture  •  Wilma Roos  •  Omer van Renterghem GUIDEBOOK •  2000 •  PAPER  • 100 PAGES This slim guide describes the history of Ecuador, its cultural heritage and current political, environmental and economic challenges. With maps, photographs and some travel information. It's an excellent synopsis from an unabashedly left-leaning perspective, strong on facts. (EDR02, $12.95)
	Tropical Nature  •  Adrian Forsyth  •  Ken Miyata NATURAL HISTORY •  1984 •  PAPER  • 248 PAGES • FAVORITE A lively, lucid portrait of the rain forest 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)
	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)
	Savages  •  Joe Kane BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1996 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES A first-hand account of a naive journalist among the Huaraoni of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In the struggle for the control of their homeland, it is certainly not the local people who behave as savages. Kane is an engaging, humorous guide to development issues in the Oriente of Ecuador. (AMZ20, $14.95)
	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)
	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. (EDR03, $10.95)

	Insight Guide Ecuador and Galapagos  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This compact, illustrated guide introduces the natural history, politics, culture and nature of Ecuador with style. With essays on customs, arts and crafts of Ecuador by Lynn Meisch and Galapagos photographs by Tui de Roy. (EDR01, $22.95)
	The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle  •  Phillipe Descola   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Three years among the Jivaro (Achaur) of the Upper Amazon. A student of Claude Levi-Strauss, Descola proves himself to be an intelligent observer and born storyteller in this ethnographic account. (AMZ25, $18.95)
	Tree of Rivers, The Story of the Amazon  •  John Hemming   • HISTORY  •  Hemming captures the ambition, greed and awe of naturalists, explorers and missionaries -- and the devastating impact on native peoples -- in this magisterial human history of the region. (AMZ114, $39.95)
	Ecuador, A Travel Journal  •  Henri Michaux  •  Robin Magowan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  A brief, querulous and entirely wonderful account of travels with the poet Gangotena, strong on color and personality and thin on travel practicalities. First published in 1929. (EDR16, $17.95)
	One River, Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon  •  Wade Davis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A lyrical, meticulously researched book of discovery that is both a biography of the author's mentor, the director of the Harvard botanical museum Richard Schultes, and the story of his own botanical adventures throughout South America. (AMZ22, $17.00)
	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)
	Blinding Light, A Novel  •  Paul Theroux   • LITERATURE  •  In this sly novel, the prolific Theroux sends his protagonist Slade Steadman, a travel writer, off to the Ecuadorian Amazon with his ex-girlfriend in search of inspiration and the wonders of Datura, a hallucinogen. (EDR21, $14.95)
	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 primer on the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America. (GPS11, $29.95)
	Galapagos, Wild Portraits  •  Tui De Roy  •  Mark Jones   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN AUGUST  •  The roving naturalist-photographer duo's irresistible compendium of colorful sea lions, blue-footed boobies, sally light-foot crabs, marine iguanas, whales and other creatures of the Galapagos. (GPS77, $39.95)
	In Amazonia, A Natural History  •  Hugh Raffles   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An intriguing look at the intertwined history of people and nature in the Amazon. Academic yet still artful, Raffles focuses on a small Brazilian riverine community and the transformation of their river over the last 50 years. (AMZ85, $24.95)
	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)
	Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Travellers' Wildlife Guides  •  David Pearson  •  Les Beletsky   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An excellent guide to Ecuador's wildlife, featuring concise descriptions and color illustrations of 500 frequently encountered reptiles and amphibians, birds, mammals and insects. The Galapagos Islands get a separate chapter and section of illustrations. (GPS34, $27.95)
	Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide  •  L.H. Emmons   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An illustrated guide to the mammals of the New World tropics, compact enough to slip into your daypack, with 29 color plates illustrating more than 200 species. (GPS12, $32.50)

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