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	The Bradt Guide Guyana  •  Kirk Smock GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES A comprehensive, practical guide in the ground-breaking British series, with recommendations for adventure activities in the jungles, in the mountains and on the coast. (SAM107, $25.99)
	Edge of the Jungle  •  William Beebe EXPLORATION •  2001 •  PAPER  • 303 PAGES A collection of 12 essays on the Amazon and its ecology and wildlife. A scientist-explorer with the soul of a poet, Beebe wrote dozens of books about his adventures in tropical America. This book, originally published in 1921, dates from his time as director of the New York Zoological Society's research center in Guyana. (AMZ75, $17.95)
	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, $14.00)
	Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice  •  Mark Plotkin TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1994 •  PAPER  • 328 PAGES • FAVORITE This is the stuff of adventure movies. Like Russ Mittermeir and Wade Davis, Mark Plotkin is the student of the extraordinary Richard Schultes at Harvard University, a pioneer in the field of ethnobotany. 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. He reminds us, "every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down." (AMZ15, $16.00)
	Searching for El Dorado, A Journey in the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's Largest Gold Rush  •  Marc Herman TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  PAPER This dramatic journalistic account of the lives and fortunes of gold miners in the forests of Guayana combines interviews with independent prospectors, Herman's own travels through the region and a hard-hitting report on international mining corporations. (SAM109, $13.00)
	The Middle Passage, The Caribbean Revisited  •  V.S. Naipaul TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 232 PAGES A brilliant, insightful writer born in Trinidad, Naipaul is well prepared to discuss the fascinating cultural mix of the region. Modeled after the travelogues of the 19th century writer Anthony Trollope, the book is part character sketch, part commentary and part travels. It's a classic. With chapters on Trinidad, British Guiana (Guyana), Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica. (CRB11, $14.95)
	Buxton Spice  •  Oonya Kempadoo LITERATURE •  2004 •  PAPER This semi-autobiographical novel captures the culture and flavor of Guyana, and the tensions between the racially mixed East Indian and Afro-Caribbean inhabitants of fictional Tamarind Grove. (SAM112, $13.00)
	Guyana Map  •   ITMB MAP A colorful, detailed travel map of Guyana, on a scale of 1:850,000. (SAM05, $10.95)

	Fodor's South America  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent all-around guide to the attractions, cultures and natural history of South America (SAM22, $27.95)
	Insight Guide Amazon Wildlife  •  Huw Hennessy  •  Hans-Ulrich Bernard   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Jammed with photographs, this compact guide introduces the people, wildlife, habitats, parks and preserves of the Amazon basin. (AMZ03, $22.95)
	The Elusive El Dorado, Essays on the Indian Experience in Guyana  •  Basdeo Mangru   • HISTORY  •  This collection of eight scholarly essays brings to a general audience the history of Indians in British Guiana, as the country was then called. (SAM108, $31.00)
	The Penguin History of Latin America  •  Edwin Williamson   • HISTORY  •  A political and cultural history, covering 500 years from Spanish conquest through the 1980s. (SAM53, $18.00)
	U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story  •  Stephen G. Rabe   • HISTORY  •  Rabe presents convincing ecidence of a covert intervention by the C.I.A. in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, intended to unseat Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist popular among the South Asian majority. (SAM114, $19.95)
	Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado  •  D. Graham Burnett   • EXPLORATION  •  A lively, well-illustrated account of the 19th-century exploration, mapping and British Imperial adventures in what is now Guyana. (SAM94, $32.50)
	The Explorers of South America  •  Edward Goodman   • EXPLORATION  •  A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. (SAM10, $24.95)
	The Jungle and the Damned  •  Hassoldt Davis  •  Lawrence Millman   • EXPLORATION  •  A colorful account of honeymooning in French Guiana, including visiting Devil's Island and canoeing 300 miles up the Maroni River to the border with Brazil, originally published in 1952. (SAM55, $16.95)
	The Naturalist on the River Amazons  •  Henry W. Bates   • EXPLORATION  •  A spell-binding early account of the river and its environs, first published in 1863. This classic chronicle of Bates's scientific adventures, part natural history and part travelogue, has inspired generations of tropical biologists. (AMZ07, $24.95)
	Wanderings in South America  •  Charles Waterton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The original observations and travels of the early 19th-century naturalist in Guyana. (SAM110, $12.45)
	Waugh Abroad, Collected Travel Writing  •  Evelyn Waugh  •  Nicholas Shakespeare   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The collected travel writing of the peripatetic Waugh, including a memorable voyage to Zanzibar, a visit to the Guyanas and other excursions to out-of-the-way and often uncomfortable locales. (TVL22, $25.00)
	Guyanese Wanderer, Stories  •  Jan Carew   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A lush, decriptive collection of stories that describe the life and times of Guyanese peasantry. (SAM119, $15.95)
	The Discovery of Guiana, With Related Documents  •  Walter, Sir Raleigh   • LITERATURE  •  First published in 1859, this fascinating report by none other than Sir Walter Raleigh includes a chapter on British Guiana. (SAM111, $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)
	In the Rainforest, Report from a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World  •  Catherine Caufield   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Caufield deftly combines good basic information on the ecology of the world's rain forests, a report on thorny conservation issues and a sympathetic treatment of indigenous inhabitants through masterly prose. (FST01, $16.00)
	Mammals of South America  •  Rexford D. Lord   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An authoritative, illustrated overview of the mammals of South America, featuring 252 photographs. (SAM118, $50.00)
	A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela  •  Steven Hilty  •  Guy Tudor  •  J.A. Gwynne   • FIELD GUIDE  •  The classic South American bird guide, revised and expanded by Steve Hilty. A bit hefty for a field guide at just over 4 pounds, but still an essential reference to over 1,400 bird species. Travelers in the Brazilian Amazon will find it especially useful. (FG13, $59.50)
	Birds of Northern South America, Vol. 2: Field Guide  •  Robin Restall  •  Clemencia Rodner  •  Roger Williams   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This comprehensive field guide, featuring an astounding 6400 paintings and 2308 maps covers all the birds from Ecuador to Guiana. (SAM103, $65.00)
	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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