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Suggested
Books
Peru
A
Neotropical Companion, Kricher, Plotkin
Maybe the best book for an overall education about the Amazon ecosystem
A Guide to the birds of Columbia, Hilty, Brown
The best book for identifying birds in Peru
The
Cities of the Ancient Andes, Adriana Von Hagen, Craig Morris, Adriana
Von Hagen, Raig Morris
Warriors
of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper amazon of Peru, Keith
Muscutt (hardcover)
A good introduction to the areas we visit on our Lost Cities trips and
on some of our expeditions. A truly unique area.
Tales
of a Shaman's Apprentice, Mark Plotkin
A good book of adventure and an insight into what should be done to save
ethnobotanical knowledge.
Amazon
Beaming, Petru Popescu
An account of a respected National Geographic photographer's experience
with a tribe of Mayoruna Indians. He felt that this tribe, which had been
thought to be extinct, used telepathic communication to communicate with
him. (we offer special trips to visit Mayoruna Indians)
The
Moche (Peoples of America), Garth Bawden
Discovering
the Inca Ice Maiden : My Adventures on Ampato, Johan Reinhard
The
Ancient Kingdoms of Peru, Nigel Davies
Amazon
Dream, Roberta Allen
Brazil
1. Natural History
Tropical
Nature, by Adrian Forsyth and Ken Miata, Macmillan Publishing Company,
1984
Neotropical
Companion, Kricher, Princeton University Press, 1990
2. Field Guides
Neotropical
Rainforest Mammals, Emmons, Louise H. 1997,
University of Chicago Press
A
Guide to the Birds of Venezuela, Schauensee, R.M. & Phelps, W.H.
Jr 1978, Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press. (Best guide in English to the
birds of the Eastern Amazon)
Latin
American Insects and Entomology, Charles Hogue, University of California
Press, Berkely, 1993
Birds
of Tropical America, Hilty, Steve, Chapters Publishing Ltd., Shelborne,
Vermont, 1994
3. General Guides
Insight
Guides: Amazon Wildlife, APA Publications (HK), Ltd., 1992
The
Amazon: Past, Present, and Future, Gheerbrant, Alain, Discoveries
Series, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
4. Travels
White
Waters and Black, MacCreagh, Gordon, University of Chicago Press,
Chicago 1985 (first published 1926)
The
Naturalist on the River Amazons, Bates, Henry Walter, Penguin Books,
first edition 1863, (paperback edition 1989)
5. Children.s Publications
The
Great Kapok Tree, Cherry, Lynne, 1990, Orlando, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
6. Accounts of Amazon Travels
The
Naturalist on the River Amazons, Bates, Henry Walter, Penguin Books,
first edition 1863, (paperback edition 1989)
In
Trouble Again, OHanlon, Redmond, 1988, New York, The Atlantic
Monthly Press
Jacques
Cousteaus Amazon Journey, Cousteau, Jacques,1984, New York,
Harry Abrams, Inc. Publishers
Brazilian
Adventure, Fleming, Peter, 1961, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company
White
Waters and Black, MacCreagh, Gordon, University of Chicago Press,
Chicago 1985 (first published 1926)
The
Rivers Amazon, Shoumatoff, Alex, 1978, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
The
Cloud Forest, Peter Matthiessen, 1961
7. Tropical Forest Descriptions
Tropical
Nature, Forsyth, Adrian, 1984, Macmillan Publishing Company
Neotropical
Companion, Kricher, Princeton University Press, 1990
A
Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Wallace, Russell
Alfred, 1853, London, Reeve and Co. (Dover reprint 1889 edition)
The
High Frontier, Moffett, Mark, Harvard University Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1993
8. Rainforest Issues
Alternatives
to Deforestation, Anderson, Anthony, ed., Columbia University Press,
New York, 1990
The
Fate of the Forest, Hecht, Susanna., Verso Publ, 1989
The
Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future, Myers, Norman, 1984,
New York, W.W. Norton Press
The
World is Burning, Shoumatoff, Alex, Avon Books, New York, 1990
Dreams
of Amazonia, Stone, Roger D., Penguin Travel Series, 1985
9. Intro to Amazon Studies and Tropical Ecology
Diversity
and the Tropical Rain Forest, Terborgh, John, Scientific American
Library. 1992.
Life
Above the Jungle Floor, Perry, Donald, Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Tropical
Rain Forest Ecology, Mabberley, D.J., 2nd Edition, Blackie & Son
Ltd., London 1992
An
Introduction to Tropical Rainforests, Whitmore, T.C., Oxford University
Press, New York, 1990
Amazonia:
Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise; Meggers, B.J. 1971, Chicago,
Aldine Publ. Co.
The
Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner, Alfred Knopf, New York, 1994 [an
excellent outline of the processes of biological evolution]
The
Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson, The Belknap Press of Harvard
University, Cambridge, 1992
10. History and Natural History of the Brazilian Amazon
The
Naturalist on the River Amazons, Bates, Henry Walter, Penguin Books,
first edition 1863, (paperback edition 1989)
The
Discovery of the Amazon, Medina, J.T. ed., 1988, New York, Dover Publications,
Through
the Brazilian Wilderness, Roosevelt, Theodore. 1914, New York.
A
Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Wallace, Russel
Alfred, 1853, London, Reeve and Co. (Dover reprint 1889 edition)
The
Amazon Rubber Boom 1850-1920, Weinstein, B. 1983, Stanford, Stanford
Univ. Press
Explorers
of the Amazon, Smith, Anthony, 1990, Viking Penguin, Inc., New York
10. Development and the Peoples of the Amazon
Assault
on the Amazon, Bourne, R. 1978, London, Victor Gollancz Ltd.
Tribes
of the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Brooks, E.; Furerst,R., Hemming, J.
& Huxley, F., 1973, London, C. Knight
People
of the Tropical Rain Forest, Denslow, J.S. & Padoch, C. 1988,
Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, U. of Cal Press, with the Smithsonian
Institution
Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil, Davis,
S. 1977,.
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians, Haines, R. B. & Vickers,
W. T (eds.)1983, New York, Academic Press
A Question of Survival for the Indians of Brazil, Hanbury-Tenison, R.
1973, London, Angus and Robertson
Developing the Amazon, Moran, E.F. 1981, Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana
Univ. Press
The Dilemma of Amazonian Development, Moran, E.F. (ed.) 1984, Boulder,
Colorado, Westview Press
Development, Integration and the Ethnic Integrity of Brazilian Indians
Rain Forest Corridors, The Transamazon Colonization Scheme, Smith,N.J.H.
1982, Berkeley, Univ. of Cal Press
Welcome of Tears; The Tapirape Indians of Central Brazil, Wagley,
C., 1977, New York, Oxford University Press
Shabono: A Visit to a Remote and Magical World in the South American Rainforest,
Florinda Donner, 1992
11.Plants and Animals
South
American Birds: A Photographic Aid to Identification, John S. Dunning,
1987
A Guide to the Birds of Columbia, Steven Hilty and William Brown, 1986
A Guide to the Birds of South America, Schauensee,
Insects of an Amazon Forest, Penny, Norman D. and Arias, Jorge R., Columbia
University Press, 1982, New York
A Complete Introduction to Tarantulas, David, Al, THF Publications, Neptune
City, New Jersey, 1987
The Piranha Book, E. Myers, George, THF Publications, Neptune City, New
Jersey, 1972
Birds in Brazil, Sick, Helmut, Princeton University Press, Princeton New
Jersey, 1993
Bird Families, Joselyn van Tyne
Mammals of the World, Walker, (in two volumes, a good way to learn mammal
families)
Butterflies of South America, DAbrera, Bernard, Hill House, 1984
Exotic Tropical Fishes, Axelrod, Herbert, R., T.F.H. Publications, Inc.,
Neptune City, New Jersey, 1985
Snakes of the World, Mattison, Chris, Facts on File Publications, New
York, 1986
Tropical Forests and Their Crops, Smith, Nigel, J.H.,Comstock Publishing
Associates, Ithaca, New York, 1992
Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names, Jobling, James A, Oxford University
Press, 1992
12. Ecology and Development
Underdeveloping the Amazon-Extraction, Unequal exchange and the failure
of the Modern State, Bunker, S.G. 1985, Urbana and Chicago, Univ. of Illinois
Press
Human Carrying Capacity of the Brazilian Rain Forest, Fearnside, P.M.
1986, New York, Columbia Univ. Press
The Dilemma of Amazonian Development, Moran, E. (ed.) 1983,Boulder, Colo.,
Westview Press
13. Species Preservation and Extinction
New World Parrots in Crisis, Beissinger, Steven and Snyder, Noel F, Smithsonian
Institution Press. Washington. 1992
*# Biodiversity, Wilson, E.O. 1988, Washington, National Academy Press
14. Medicinal Plants of the Amazon
Tales of a Shamans Apprentice, Plotkin, Mark, Penguin Books, New
York, 1993
15. The Culture of Brazil
The Brazilians, Page, Joseph,
Ecuador
Amazonia
Tropical Nature. Forsyth, Adrian; Miyata, Ken. Macmillan,
1984. The best introductory book for the layman.
A Neotropical Companion. Kricher, John C. Princenton University
Press, 1989.
Key Environment Amazonia. Prance, G.; Lovejoy, T.,Ed.,
Pergamon Press, 1985. Excellent book; quite technical.
Anthropology
The Spears of Twilight, Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle,
Descola, Philippe. The New Press, 1996. Currently the BEST BOOK about
the Achuar.
The Jivaro. People of the Sacred Waterfalls. Harner, Michael,
J. University of California Press Ltd. 1984.
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Eliade, Mircea.
Penguin Books, 1989.
Birds
of Ecuador. Greenfield, Paul, et al., CECIA,
1990. An excellent checklist for birders.
Field
Guide to the Birds of the Galapagos
Harris, M.P., Collins, 1974. The best guide for birding on the Islands.
Flora
of the Galapagos Islands
Duncan, M., Wiggins, I., Standford University Press, 1971. By far the
best and most complete book about the plants of the Galapagos.
Galapagos,
A Natural History Guide
Jackson, M.H., The University of Calgary Press, 1990. Definitely the best
introductory book about the Galapagos.
Reef
Fish Identification: Galapagos
Humann, P., New word publications/Libri Mundi, and 1993. A serious guide
for both snorkelers and divers.
The
Galapagos Affair
Theherne, J.E. Jonathan Cape. If you are interested on the mysterious
stories of Floreana, this is the book.
The
Origin of Species
Darwin, C., John Murray, 1859. Although not very easy to read, this book
introduces you into Darwins concept of evolution.
The
Voyage of Beagle
Darwin, C., John Murray, 1845. The story of the voyage that changed the
mind of the young Darwin, with a section about the Galapagos.
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