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Bradt Climbing and Hiking Guide Ecuador
Rob Rachowiecki Mark Thurber Betsy Wagenhauser
GUIDEBOOK 2004 PAPER 288 PAGES
An indispensable guide to hiking in Ecuador, especially if you want to explore the off-trails. Fifth edition.
(EDR09, $19.95)
Art of the Andes, from Chavin to Inca
Rebecca Stone-Miller
ARCHAEOLOGY 2002 PAPER 224 PAGES
This illustrated, authoritative and concise survey of Andean art and architecture covers not only Machu Picchu and other 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)
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)
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)
Ecuador in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture
Wilma Roos
Omer van Renterghem
GUIDEBOOK
A slim guide to the history of Ecuador, its cultural heritage and political, environmental and economic challenges.
(EDR02, $12.95)
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)
Trekking in Ecuador
Robert & Daisy Kunstaetter
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to hikes and treks in the highlands, Amazon and Pacific caost of Ecuador.
(EDR18, $18.95)
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)
Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador
Ann Pollard Rowe
Lynn Meisch
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A well-illustrated, authoritative overview of textiles and textile traditions in the Andes of Ecuador.
(EDR23, $45.00)
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)
Savages
Joe Kane
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A firsthand account of a naive journalist among the Huaraoni of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Kane is an engaging, humorous guide to development issues in the Oriente of Ecuador.
(AMZ20, $14.95)
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)
Valverde's Gold, In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure
Mark Honigsbaum
EXPLORATION
The spellbinding account of a tough journey into Ecuador's Llanganati mountains in search of buried Spanish gold.
(AND51, $16.00)
Fire from the Andes, Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
Susan E. Benner
ANTHOLOGY
An anthology of contemporary stories from the Andes, this book includes contributions by 24 women from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Mostly personal, many of the stories revolve around peasants, the urban poor and other marginalized members of society.
(AND17, $24.95)
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 overview of the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America.
(GPS11, $29.95)
Galapagos, Wild Portraits
Tui De Roy
Mark Jones
NATURAL HISTORY
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)
The Andes, As the Condor Flies
Tui De Roy
NATURAL HISTORY
This stunning portfolio of color photographs showcases the landscapes, habitats and wildlife of the Andes from Ecuador's cloud forests to little-visited regions of the Peruvian Andes, to the Altiplano and Patagonia.
(SAM79, $35.00)
Tropical Nature
Adrian Forsyth
Ken Miyata
NATURAL HISTORY
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)
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth
Maurice Krafft
NATURAL HISTORY
OUT OF PRINT
This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992).
(GEO06, $12.95)
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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