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	The Andes, As the Condor Flies  •  Tui De Roy NATURAL HISTORY •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 160 PAGES This stunning collection of 350 color photographs, organized geographically, 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)
	Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness  •  Peter Matthiessen TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1987 •  PAPER  • 280 PAGES • FAVORITE Matthiessen recounts with wit and insight a 20,000-mile journey through South America, including a marvelous wild goose chase in the Amazon, an obligatory visit to Machu Picchu and his travels in Tierra del Fuego. A deceptively straightforward travelogue, this book displays Matthiessen's unflagging sense of humor, great style and unbounded curiosity. (SAM02, $16.00)
	The Incas, People of the Sun  •  Carmen Bernard  •  Paul Bahn EXPLORATION •  1994 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES A pocket-size encyclopedia in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series, this jewel of a book features hundreds of archival drawings and photographs, a chronology and long excerpts from the journals of early explorers. It's a guide to the ancient monuments, daily life of the Incas, and history of exploration. (AND03, $12.95)
	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)
	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)

	Amazon Basin Map  •   ITMB    •  A colorful physical map scaled at 1:4,000,000, showing the entire Amazon Basin from the Andes to the Atlantic. (AMZ05, $11.95)
	Cusco Peru Tourist Map  •   Lima 2000   • REFERENCE  •  A double-sided street plan, road map and guide to Cuzco and the region. (PRU83, $9.95)
	Bradt Guide Amazon  •  Roger Harris   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact guide to the Amazon and Orinoco rivers. (AMZ92, $25.99)
	Eyewitness Guide Brazil  •   DK Publishing   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A beautifully illustrated guide in the excellent Eyewitness series. (BZL67, $30.00)
	Fodor's Peru  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With good recommendations on where to stay and eat, where to go and and what to do. (PRU74, $19.95)
	Lonely Planet Peru  •  Sara Benson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent practical guide to Peru geared for independent travelers. (PRU13, $22.99)
	A Sacred Landscape, The Search for Ancient Peru  •  Hugh Thomson   • HISTORY  •  Thomson (The White Rock) explore Moche, Chavin, Nasca and other ancient civilizations of Peru in this tale of archaeology and adventure. (PRU76, $16.95)
	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)
	Machu Picchu  •  Barry Brukoff  •  Pablo Neruda  •  Stephen Kessler   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Brukoff's stunning color and black-and-white photographs nicely compliment Neruda's great poem, translated into English with facing Spanish. (PRU43, $40.00)
	River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey  •  Candice Millard   • HISTORY  •  Millard captures the suspense and the setting in vivid detail in this chronicle of Roosevelt's calamitous, ill-prepared Amazon expedition. (AMZ96, $14.95)
	The Peru Reader, History, Culture, Politics  •  Orin Starn   • HISTORY  •  A lively, literate anthology on the history and culture of Peru that ranges from historical accounts to modern analysis. (PRU04, $25.95)
	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)
	Art of the Andes, from Chavin to Inca  •  Rebecca Stone-Miller   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  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. (PRU05, $18.95)
	Eight Feet in the Andes  •  Dervla Murphy   • EXPLORATION  •  Indomitable Irish grandmother Dervla Murphy attempts a 1,300-mile trek through the Andes on the trail of the conquistadors. (AND07, $15.95)
	In Trouble Again  •  Redmond O'Hanlon   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  As funny as he is insightful, O'Hanlon starts his comic masterpiece of a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon with a litany of creatures that can do you harm. (AMZ04, $13.95)
	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)
	Voyage of the Beagle  •  Charles Darwin   • EXPLORATION • BEST SELLER • FAVORITE  •  The wide-eyed tale of a young man on a five-year voyage that changed his life -- and our way of thinking about the world. First published in 1839, Darwin's South American chapters are still an outstanding introduction to the wildlife and allure of the continent. (GPS02, $12.95)
	Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter  •  Mario Vargas Llosa   • LITERATURE  •  The marvelous comic novel of scandal, soap opera and writing set in 1950's Lima. (PRU48, $14.00)
	In the Heart of the Amazon Forest  •  Walter Henry Bates   • LITERATURE  •  A choice selection from Bates' beloved Naturalist of the River Amazonas (1863). Bates, a contemporary of Darwin, spent 11 years exploring the upper reaches of the Amazon. (AMZ109, $10.00)
	Jaguars and Electric Eels  •  Alexander von Humboldt   • LITERATURE  •  In this short excerpt from Personal Narrative (the original runs to three volumes), Humboldt describes his now-famous three-month journey to the Rio Negro via the Orinoco River. (AMZ108, $10.00)
	Little Tiny Teeth  •  Aaron J. Elkins   • MYSTERY  •  From the Edgar Award-winning author of Unnatural Selection comes this mystery to chill the bones. When a forensics professor joins an Amazon riverboat expedition, he expects a vacation. But in a jungle full of predators, he realizes the humans may be the deadliest of all. (AMZ105, $7.99)
	The Bad Girl  •  Mario Vargas Llosa  •  Edith Grossman   • LITERATURE  •  Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager in Lima in 1950, and next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting Comrade Arlette. In Llosa's beguiling new novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to be what they appear. (PRU81, $25.00)
	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)
	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)
	Flowers of the Amazon Forest, The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee  •  Margaret Mee   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Featuring 60 of Mee's splendidly detailed, gorgeous botanical illustrations, along with field sketches and diary excerpts. (AMZ104, $39.50)
	The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon  •  Michael Goulding  •  Ronaldo Barthem  •  Efrem Ferreira   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A profusely illustrated, full-color atlas of the river and its major tributaries with 150 maps. (AMZ82, $39.95)
	Through the Eyes of the Condor, An Aerial Vision of Latin America  •  Robert B. Haas   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  This collection of stunning, oversized photographs, taken from above, shows the jungles and favellas, the reefs and ruins, wildlife and diverse landscapes of Latin America. (SAM122, $50.00)
	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)
	A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Peru  •  Clive Byers   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy shirt pocket guide. (PRU75, $15.95)
	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)
	Birds of Peru  •  Tom Schulenberg  •  Dan Stotz  •  John O'Neill  •  Dan Lane   • FIELD GUIDE  •  The long-awaited, gorgeously illustrated and authoritative guide by Schulenberg and colleagues at the Field Museum in Chicago. (PRU55, $49.50)
	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)
	Peru Mammals Guide  •   Rainforest Publications   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy, double-sided laminated card depicting over 60 commonly encountered mammals of Peru. Beautiful and accurate full-color illustrations. (PRU73, $6.95)
	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)
	Peruvian Wildlife, A Visitor's Guide to the Central Andes  •  Barry Walker  •  Huw Lloyd  •  Gerard Cheshire   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Written by resident bird legend Barry Walker and colleagues, this accessible, slim guide introduces the habitats, plants, birds, and animals of the high Andes with authority. Thoroughly illustrated, it's not exactly an indetification guide but rather an illuminating overview of the natural history of a fascinating, biologically diverse region. (PRU71, $26.99)

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