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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $67, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXEDR08)		  
Ecuador in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture  •  Wilma Roos  •  Omer van Renterghem
HISTORY •  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)		   Ecuador in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture
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, $16.00)		   Tropical Nature
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)		   The Panama Hat Trail
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, $16.00)		   Savages
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. Two Sides. 35x20 inches. (EDR03, $10.95)		   Ecuador Map



Also Recommended

Culture Shock! Ecuador  •  Nicholas Crowder   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (EDR25, $15.95)
 		  
Insight Guide Ecuador and Galapagos  •  Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Presenting the natural history, politics, culture, wildlife and attractions of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands with style and authority. Contributors include Tui de Roy (Galapagos photography), Lynn Meisch (arts, crafts and customs) and Rob Rachoweicki (Oriente/Amazon). (EDR01, $22.99)
 		  
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, $24.95)
 		  
The World as You Dream It, Shamanistic Teachings from the Amazon and Andes  •  John M. Perkins   • RELIGION  •  A personal account of sometimes hard-to-believe experiences with curanderos (or shamans) in the highlands and Amazon of Ecuador. (AMZ46, $14.95)
 		  
Tree of Rivers, The Story of the Amazon  •  John Hemming   • HISTORY  •  Hemming captures the ambition, greed and awe of naturalists, explorers and missionaries -- and their devastating impact on native peoples -- in this absorbing human history. (AMZ114, $24.95)
 		  
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, $17.00)
 		  
Ecuador, A Travel Journal  •  Henri Michaux  •  Robin Magowan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  A brief, querulous and entirely wonderful narrative of the modernist painter Michaux's travels with the poet Gangotena, strong on color and personality. Its many pleasures include an unbeatable description of Quito's accursed mountain weather. (EDR16, $17.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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. 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. (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  •  John Kricher  •  Mark Plotkin   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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, $35.00)
 		  
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, $33.95)
 		  
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-color maps. Goulding (Floods of Fortune) and Brazilian biologists Barthem and Ferreira provide the accompanying text. (AMZ82, $39.95)
 		  
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, with 200 color photographs. (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, $29.95)
 		  
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide  •  L.H. Emmons   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Compact enough to slip into your daypack, this field guide to the mammals of the New World tropics features 29 color plates of more than 200 species. (GPS12, $42.50)
 		  
 
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