READING GUIDE BOLIVIA o enhance your travel experience, we’ve compiled a selection of favorite, new, and hard-to-find books Tabout your destination. Feel free to visit your local bookstore or library for your reading materials. ESSENTIAL ALSO RECOMMENDED

Kim MacQuarrie Serafin M. Coronel-Molina Life and Death in the Andes, On Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook the Trail of Bandits, Heroes and 2014, PAPER, 228 PAGES Revolutionaries This shirt-pocket guide is a surprisingly thorough introduction to not just the language 2015, PAPER, 448 PAGES In this heartfelt meditation on South America but also the customs and culture of the Andes. and the Andes, MacQuarrie follows the Andes, Sophie D. Coe, Michael Coe hot on the trails of legendary characters like Charles Darwin, Pablo Escobar and Che The True History of Chocolate Guevara. 2013, PAPER, 280 PAGES This scholarly history of pre-Columbian Benjamin Orlove chocolate by these married archaeologists Lines in the Water, Nature and Culture reveals chocolate’s origins as a ceremonial beverage in ancient Olmec and Maya society. at Lake Titicaca The Coes trace the treat’s evolution from a 2002 PAPER 287 PAGES , , food of the gods to the salons of Europe With the author’s photographs and reflections through the masses to Hershey, Pennsylvania. on the relationship of the lake-dwelling fishermen to their environment, this is an Herbert Klein illuminating personal account of life in the Andean highlands. A Concise History of Bolivia 2011, PAPER, 360 PAGES Keith Richards From prehistory through independence, return Culture Smart! Bolivia of democracy in 1982 and current politics, this 2009, PAPER, 168 PAGES is an excellent survey of the Andean nation. A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of John Hemming the land and people along with practical travel Conquest of the Incas advice. 2003, PAPER, 641 PAGES A masterful, prize-winning history of the Inca Daniel Jacobs struggle against the Spanish invasion. This Rough Guide Bolivia classic account, by one of the best writers on 2018, PAPER, 344 PAGES South America, brings together wide-ranging This sturdy comprehensive travel guide in the scholarly material in the interests of telling a British series includes an excellent historical good story. With a chronology, family tree, and cultural overview of Thailand along with bibliography, notes and references. extensive listings. An excellent choice. Michael Reid National Geographic Society Forgotten Continent Bolivia Adventure Map 2017, PAPER, 416 PAGES 2012, MAP Economist editor Reid draws on his years in A color traveler’s map of the country at a scale the cities, presidential palaces and shantytowns of 1:1,250,000. The tear- and water-resistant of Central and South America in this portrait map includes place index. of a region rich in oil, farmland and culture, with consideration on its prospects in the face of globalization. Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (Translator) Ann Wright (Translator), Ernesto Che Guevara Open Veins of Latin America: Five The Motorcycle Diaries, Notes on a Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Latin American Journey 1998, PAPER, 317 PAGES 2004, PAPER, 175 PAGES The most wrenchingly beautiful history of The adventures of the then-unknown 23-year- plunder and exploitation in Latin America old Ernesto “Che” Guevara as he wanders ever written. President Obama has a copy, through South America in 1952 with his compliments of Hugo Chavez. companion Alberto Granado.

Ramiro Matos Annamaria Alfieri The Great Inka Road City of Silver, A Mystery 2015, HARD COVER, 240 PAGES 2011, PAPER, 317 PAGES An astute collection of essays on the “Qhapaq Mother Maria Santa Hilda, Abess of the Nan” (the Great Inca Road), covering its convent of Santa Isabella de los Santos engineering, practical uses and the great Milagros in Potosi, is at the center of this civilization that built it. Includes more than 225 satisfying, suspenseful tale, richly set in the full-color illustrations. 17th-century Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. The source of Spanish silver, Potosi was once the William Powers largest and wealthiest city in the Americas. Whispering in the Giant’s Ear, A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia’s War Susan E. Benner (Editor) on Globalization Fire from the Andes, Short Fiction by 2006, PAPER, 288 PAGES Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Powers chronicles his four years in Bolivia as Peru an aid worker, weaving travel, history, culture 1998, PAPER, 208 PAGES and interview into a powerful portrait of Mostly personal, many of the contemporary Bolivia and its people. stories revolve around peasants, the urban poor and other marginalized members of the Andes Paul van Lindert, Otto Verkoren society. Bolivia in Focus 2009, PAPER, 144 PAGES Nataniel Aguirre, Sergio Gabriel Waisman Essential reading for any traveler to Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa, Memoirs of the this up-to-date pocket guide introduces the Last Soldier of the Independence people, politics and culture of the region. Movement 1999, PAPER, 368 PAGES Rebecca Stone-Miller A Bolivian classic, first published in 1885, Art of the Andes, from Chavin to Inca whose octogenarian narrator looks back on 2012, PAPER, 224 PAGES his youth as a soldier in the South American This authoritative and concise illustrated Independence Movement. It’s a historical novel survey of Andean art and architecture covers on a grand scale. not only Machu Picchu and additional Inca Stephen Tapscott (Editor) monuments, but also Chan Chan, Nasca and other archaeological sites and cultures. Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, A Bilingual Anthology Simon Lamb 1996, PAPER, 418 PAGES Devil in the Mountain This scholarly anthology of 400 poems, 2006, PAPER, 335 PAGES presented in the original language (Spanish or This personable memoir of geology and Portuguese) and English. Selections include geological field work in the Bolivian Andes poems from Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda and is a terrific book, not just for its insights Jorge Luis Borges. into Bolivia, but also for its contribution to understanding how our planet works. Guy Tudor (Illustrator), Robert Ridgely The Birds of South America, The Pico Iyer Oscine Passerines, Vol. 1 Sun After Dark 1989, HARD COVER, 596 PAGES 2005, PAPER, 240 PAGES This authoritative reference, the most complete A splendid collection of reports from the guide to South American songbirds, features field, ranging from Bolivia to Cambodia, Tibet splendid color illustrations of 700 species, and Arabia, by the engaging Pico Iyer. The along with detailed range maps and field notes. inveterate traveler/talker, pulls in settings that range from the Altiplano to the Arabian desert and Easter Island.