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Peru
A
Neotropical Companion
Maybe the best book for an overall education about the Amazon ecosystem
A
Guide to the Birds of Columbia.
The best book for identifying birds in Peru
Photographic
Guide To Birds of Peru
The
Cities of the Ancient Andes
Warriors
of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru
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: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines
in the Amazon Rain Forest
A good book of adventure and an insight into what should be done to save
ethnobotanical knowledge.
Amazon
Beaming
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.
The
Moche (Peoples of America)
Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden : My Adventures on Ampato, Johan Reinhard
The
Ancient Kingdoms of Peru
Amazon Dream, Roberta Allen
Brazil
1. Natural History
Tropical
Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
A
Neotropical Companion
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
Guide Amazon Wildlife (Insight Guides Amazon Wildlife)
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, O’Hanlon, Redmond, 1988, New York, The Atlantic
Monthly Press
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
Cloud
Forest (Classic, Nature, Penguin)
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
The
Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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,.
A
Question of Survival For the Indians of Brazil
The
Dilemma Of Amazonian Development (Westview special studies on Latin America
and the Caribbean)
Shabono:
A Visit to a Remote and Magical World in the South American Rain Forest
11.Plants and Animals
South
American Land Birds: A Photographic Aid to Identification
A
Guide to the Birds of Columbia.
A
Guide to the Birds of South America
Insects
of an Amazon Forest
Butterflies
of South America
Exotic
Tropical Fishes
The
Encyclopedia of Snakes
14. Medicinal Plants of the Amazon
Tales
of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines
in the Amazon Rain Forest
15. The Culture of Brazil
The
Brazilians
Ecuador
Amazonia
Tropical
Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
A
Neotropical Companion
Anthropology
Spears
of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
The
Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls
Shamanism:
Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series (General))
The
Birds of Ecuador, Vol. 2: Field Guide
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 Darwin’s 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.
Argentina
"The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
" In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
" Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
" Idle Days in Patagonia (Dodo Press)
" The
Invention of Argentina
" The
Indians of Tierra Del Fuego: An Account of the Ona, Yahgan, Alacaluf and
Haush Natives of the Fuegian Archipelago
" The Captive in Patagonia: Or Life Among the Giants
"Three Men of the Beagle
In Spanish - Javier Vergara Editores.