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READING GUIDE AMAZON ere is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail- Horder book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your voyage, go directly to reading.longitudebooks.com/UA1870.

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Item EXAMZ119. Buy these 4 items as a set for $79 John Hemming including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free of Rivers, The Story of the shipping on anything else you order. Amazon Michael Goulding, Ronaldo Barthem, Efrem Ferreira 2009, PAPER, 368 PAGES, $24.95 The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon Hemming captures the ambition, greed and awe of naturalists, explorers and missionaries -- 2003, HARD COVER, 254 PAGES, $39.95 This beautiful, profusely illustrated atlas of and their devastating impact on native peoples the river includes its major tributaries and 150 -- in this absorbing human history. (Item full-color maps. Goulding (Floods of Fortune) AMZ114) and Brazilian biologists Barthem and Ferreira William Herndon, Gary Kinder (Editor) provide the accompanying text. (Item AMZ82) Exploration of the Valley of the Redmond O’Hanlon Amazon In Trouble Again 2000, PAPER, 343 PAGES, $14.00 1990, PAPER, 272 PAGES, $16.00 An original account of 19th-century As funny as he is insightful, O’Hanlon starts exploration of the Amazon by Captain his comic masterpiece of a journey between Herndon, who traveled from Lima to the the Orinoco and the Amazon with a litany of Pacific coast of . (Item AMZ67) the insects, protozoa, snakes and predators that H.M. Tomlinson can do you harm. (Item AMZ04) The and the Jungle Adrian Forsyth, Ken Miyata 1995, PAPER, 258 PAGES, $19.95 Tropical First published in 1912, this is a thoroughly 1984, PAPER, 248 PAGES, $16.00 unromanticized, absorbing account of a Two uncommonly observant and thoughtful 2,000-mile journey by steamship deep into field biologists offer a lucid portrait of the the Amazon. Understated and often hilarious. through 17 marvelous essays that (Item AMZ10) introduce the habitats, ecology, and Peter Matthiessen of the Central and South American . (Item GPS13) Cloud , A Chronicle of the South American Nelles 1987, PAPER, 280 PAGES, $17.00 Amazon Map Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and 2009, MAP, $13.95 style his odyssey to the Amazon and , This double-sided map (1:2.5 million) shows including Machu Picchu and . both detail and the expanse of the great river (Item SAM02) basin from the Andes to the Atlantic. (Item AMZ05) James A. Duke Jungle, A Harrowing True Story of The Green Pharmacy Survival in the Amazon 1999, PAPER, 507 PAGES, $22.99 2015, PAPER, 320 PAGES, $14.99 An A-Z catalog of ailments and the herbal A bestselling true story that reads like a remedies that heal them. (Item AMZ40) thrilling novel. After four weeks of trekking deep into the Bolivian rainforest, Yossi Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Roger Williams Ghinsberg and his companions realize that Birds of Northern , Vol. they are lost. Eventually alone, Ghinsberg must make it out all by himself. (Item BOL31) 2: Field Guide 2006, PAPER, 656 PAGES, $75.00 Linnea Smith This comprehensive field guide, featuring an La Doctora, The Journal of an astounding 6400 paintings and 2308 maps, covers all the birds from to Guiana. American Doctor Practicing Medicine (Item SAM103) of the 1999, PAPER, 238 PAGES, $16.95 James Kavanagh An insightful collection of letters home to Brazil Birds America from a doctor at an Amazonian 2016, PLASTIC CARD, 12 PAGES, $7.95 jungle clinic for education and research. (Item A folding wildlife guide designed for quick AMZ43) reference in the field. With full-color images and text, it features more than 140 birds often Mark Plotkin seen in Brazil. (Item BZL141) Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice 1994, PAPER, 328 PAGES, $17.00 James Kavanagh In this marvelous book, Plotkin recounts Brazil Wildlife his work documenting the use of medicinal 2016, PLASTIC CARD, 12 PAGES, $7.95 plants among remote tribes in the Northwest A folding wildlife guide designed for quick Amazon. A portrait of people and their reference in the field. With full-color images environment, a tale of adventure and a and text, it features more than 140 creatures moving example of science in the service of often seen in Brazil. (Item BZL140) preservation. (Item AMZ15) Jean-Christophe Jeauffre Scott Wallace Amazon Trek The Unconquered, In Search of the 2007, DVD, $19.99 Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes A dramatic documentary of the Jules Verne 2012, PAPER, 512 PAGES, $16.00 Expedition, a group of modern-day explorers Wallace shows plight of the indigenous who set sail aboard a 19th-century ship and peoples of the Amazon in this travelogue head up the Amazon. Their journey follows and portrait of Sydney Possuelo, founder of the river to the jungle homes of the Maracas Brazil’s Department of Isolated Indians (Item Indians and a lost civilization. (Item AMZ140) AMZ132)

Frans Lanting (Photographer), Christine Eckstrom TO ORDER Jungles 2011, HARD COVER, 256 PAGES, $19.99 The wildlife of , the Congo, Amazon, Borneo and are all featured in this portfolio of 120 extraordinary 2838 Vicksburg Lane color photographs. (Item AMZ65) Plymouth, MN 55447 [email protected] John Hemming www.longitudebooks.com Naturalists in Paradise, Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon Shipping charges via UPS or Priority Mail: $4.95 for first book, $1 per additional book up to a maximum of $9.95. 2015, HARD COVER, 368 PAGES, $34.95

The story of Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Book prices and availability subject to change. Bates and Richard Spruce, three pioneering Checks, Visa, MasterCard, AmEx and Discover accepted. British naturalists whose discoveries in Amazonia impacted the . Includes 70 Call (+1) 800 342 2164 or go to black-and-white and color illustrations. (Item reading.longitudebooks.com/UA1870 AMZ137) © 2015 Longitude Rev 10/16