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Peruvian Andes
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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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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Art of the Andes, from Chavin to Inca
Rebecca Stone-Miller
ARCHAEOLOGY
2002
PAPER
224 PAGES
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. With 183 illustrations, maps and site diagrams. Revised edition.
(PRU05, $18.95) |
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Touching the Void
Joe Simpson
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2004
PAPER
218 PAGES
The harrowing tale of a climb gone badly wrong and Simpson's near miraculous survival in the Andes. Dedicated to Simon Yates ("for a debt I can never repay"), Simpson recounts his 3-day ordeal after being cut loose by his climbing partner on the face of a glacier and dropping into a crevasse. Neither men thought he would survive. Yates had been lowering his crippled partner down the mountain, when he had to make the choice of cutting him lose or dying with him. More than a tale of adventure and survival, the book has a psychological impact -- and now it has been made into a film, which interweaves interviews of Simpson and Yates with a reenactment.
(AND37, $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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Cordillera Blanca, Huayhuash
Lima 2000
A traveler's map of the northern Peruvian Andes.
(PRU54, $9.95) |
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Cordillera Huayhuash Climber's Map
Alpine Mapping Guild
GUIDEBOOK
A shaded relief topographic map geared for climers and trekkers at a scale of 1:65,000.
(PRU53, $18.95) |
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Lonely Planet Peru
Sara Benson
GUIDEBOOK
An excellent practical guide to Peru geared for independent travelers.
(PRU13, $22.99) |
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Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook
Serafin M. Coronel-Molina
Richard A. Wright
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
Essential vocabulary and idioms of the most widely spoken language thoughout the Andes.
(PRU36, $8.99) |
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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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Trekking and Climbing in the Andes
Val Pitkethly
Kate Harper
GUIDEBOOK
A compact guide to treks and climbs in the Andes, including Torres del Paine, Fitzroy, The Inca Trail, Cordillera Huayhuash and Cotopaxi.
(AND34, $20.00) |
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Yuraq Janka: Guide to the Peruvian Andes, Cordilleras Blanca and Rosko
John Ricker
GUIDEBOOK
A mountaineering guide to the Cordillera Blanca.
(PRU44, $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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Mountain of the Condor, Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu
Joseph W. Bastien
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An account of the rituals practiced by a small community inhabiting Kaata, a sacred mountain in midwestern Bolivia.
(AND28, $16.50) |
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano
Cedric Belfrage
HISTORY
The most wrenchingly beautiful history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America ever written.
(AND26, $18.00) |
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The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Pedro de Cieza de Leon
HISTORY
A detailed account of the Spanish occupation of Peru, told by a seasoned Spanish chronicler who interviewed living witnesses years after the events involved. Perhaps the most thorough of the contemporary chronicles told from the point of view of the conquerers.
(AND25, $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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Between the Lines, The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca
Anthony Aveni
ARCHAEOLOGY
A wide ranging, scholarly overview of the Nasca Lines. In this book, written for a popular audience, Aveni discusses previous theories about the significance of the lines, putting forward intriguing new ideas about how the lines may have related to sources of water.
(PRU22, $39.95) |
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The Incas and their Ancestors, The Archaeology of Peru
Michael Moseley
ARCHAEOLOGY
An outstanding illustrated survey of the archaeology of the Inca, Moche and Nasca civilizations. With hundreds of color illustrations and line drawings, it's an in-depth look at the ancient cultures and history of Peru. A great general introduction.
(AND06, $33.95) |
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The White Rock, An Exploration of the Inca Heartland
Hugh Thomson
EXPLORATION
Author, explorer and archaeologist Thomson recounts 20 years spent journeying throughout the Andes of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador in search of lost Inca cities. His engaging account is a pleasing mix of discovery, colorful personalities, history and archaeology
(AND36, $16.95) |
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Tschiffely's Ride
Aime Tschiffely
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The classic, richly told tale of people, places and adventures from Buenos Aires to Washington D.C. on horseback.
(SAM45, $24.95) |
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Death in the Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa
LITERATURE
This politically charged novel details what happens when three peasants are "disappeared" by the Shining Path.
(AND27, $14.00) |
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
LITERATURE
The classic tale of Franciscan missionaries in 18th-century Peru by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. First published in 1927.
(AND08, $12.95) |
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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 overview of the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America.
(GPS11, $29.95) |
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Tropical Nature
Adrian Forsyth
Ken Miyata
NATURAL HISTORY
BEST SELLER
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.
(GPS13, $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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A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
Steven Hilty
William Brown
FIELD GUIDE
A classic South American bird guide with good coverage of the upper Amazon basin. It illustrates 1,700 species -- nearly half of all the species of South America.
(FG14, $67.50) |
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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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