Here is a list of over 200 Amazon-related books currently in print listed alphabetically by author. A future version of this list will be organized by subject. Recommended books indicated * are available for purchase through our on-line store: Jungle Shopping. In addition, links to websites with bibliographies of rainforest books provide access to many more rainforest-related publications. |
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AMAZON BIBLIOGRAPHIES
• Environmental History of Latin America: Amazon (JAN '05)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/LAEH/html/amazon.htm
Brief reviews of dozens of essays, articles and books on environmental issues.
• Rain Forest References (JAN '05)
http://www.bcrescue.org/rfinfo.html
Lists rainforest books divided into categories: travel guides, conservation, etc.
• Books About the Rain Forest (JAN '05)
http://www.san-marino.k12.ca.us/~smpl/rainforestbib.htm
Lists rainforest books available from San Marino library.
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Adriance, Madeleine C. Promised Land: Base Christian Communities
& the Struggle for the Amazon
Aikman, Sheila Intercultural Education & Literacy: An Ethnographic
Study of Indigenous Knowledge & Learning in the Peruvian Amazons
Albert, Toni The Remarkable Rainforest: An Active-Learning Book for Kids
*Allen, Roberta Amazon Dream
Allen, Nancy Kelly et al On the Banks of the Amazon/En las orillas del amazonas (Bilingual)
Anderson, Anthony B. Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward
Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest
Andersen, Lykke E. et al. The Economics of Deforestation: Dynamic Modeling of Amazonia
Anderson, Robin L Colonization As Exploitation in The Amazon Rain Forest: 1758-1911
Andrews, Patrick Amazon Gold
Angus, Colin and Ian Mulgrew Amazon Extreme : Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
Araujo-Lima, Carlos and Michael Goulding So Fruitful a Fish (Biology and Resource Management Series)
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Balan, Bruce Blackout in the Amazon
Bales, John Guide to Owning Amazon Parrots
Barbosa, Luiz C. The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Global Ecopolitics,
Development & Democracy
Barham, Bradford L. Prosperity's Promise: The Amazon Rubber Boom
& Distorted Economic Development
Barrie, Anmarie Amazon Parrots As a New Pet
Barter, James The Amazon (Rivers of the World)
Bartlett, Richard D. and Patricia Pope Bartlett Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon: An Ecotourist's Guide
*Bates, Henry W. The Naturalist on the Amazons
Bergman, Roland W. Amazon Economics: The Simplicity of Shipibo
Indian Wealth
Bischof, Larry Amazon Adventure
Block, David Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition,
Jesuit Enterprise, & Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660-1880
Bloom, Pamela The Amazon up Close
Bosch, Klaus Encyclopedia of Amazon Parrots
Bradley Cruxton, J. Discovering the Amazon Rainforest
Braun, Barbara and Peter G. Roe Arts of the Amazon
Brown, Michael F War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon
Browder, John O. and Brian J. Godfrey Rainforest Cities
Bryant, Robyn Animals of the Amazon
Bunker, Stephen G. Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal
Exchange, & the Failure of the Modern State
Butterfield, Moira Amazon Rainforest (Wildlife World)
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Calvo, Cesar The Three Halves of Ino Moxo: Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon
Capelas, Alfonso Jr. et al. Amazonia: The Land, the Wildlife, the River, the People
Carvajal, Gaspar de Discovery of the Amazon According to the Accounts of Friar Gaspar De Carvajal & Other Documents
Castner, James L. The Amazon Rainforest: An Exploration of Countries, Cultures & Creatures
*Castner, James L. A Field Guide to Medicinal & Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon
*Castner, James L. Amazon Insects: A Photo Guide
Castner, James L. Explorama's Amazon: A Journey Through the Rainforest of Peru
Castner, James L. Rainforest Researchers (Deep in the Amazon)
Chernela, Janet Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space
*Cherry, Lynn The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
Cheshire, Gerard and Richard Orr Nature Unfolds The Tropical Rainforest (Nature Unfolds)
Cleary, David Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush
Colby, Gerard and Charlotte Dennett Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
Collins, Michael Pizarro, Orellana, & the Exploration of the Amazon
Coningham, John Walking the Jungle: An Adventure's Guide to the Amazon
Cousteau Society, Adventure In The Amazon (The Cousteau Society)
Cowell, Adrian The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest
Cruxton, J Discovering the Amazon Rainforest
Cunningham, S. Out of the Amazon: Photographs of the Brazilian Rainforest
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Darling, Kathy Amazon A B C
Davis, Wade One River: Science, Adventure and Hallucinogenics in the Amazon Basin
Davis, Wade The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey Of Richard Evans Schultes
De Almeida, Anna and Joao S. Campari Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon
Decoteau, A. E. The Handbook of Amazon Parrots
Denevan, W. M. Swidden Fallow Agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon
Dobkin de Rios, M. Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon
Donovan, Sandra Amazon River Dolphins (Animals of the Rain Forest)
E-F
Early, John D. Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: History, Social
Structure & Population Dynamics
Faminow, Merle D. Cattle, Deforestation & Development in the Amazon: An Economic, Agronomic & Environmental Perspective
Fearnside, Philip Martin Human Carrying Capacity of the Brazilian Rainforest
Felshin, Nina Amazon of the North: James Bay Revisited
Fitzpatrick, Anne The Amazon River (Natural Wonders of the World)
Foresta, Ronald A. Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development: The Limits of Providence
Frueh, Joanna Picturing the Modern Amazon
Furnweger, Karen Amazon Rising: Seasons of the River
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Gash. J.H.C, Amazonian Deforestation and Climate
Gates, Phil Terror on the Amazon
Gerholdt, James E. Amazon Parrots
*Gheerbrant, Alain The Amazon: Past, Present, & Future
Giddings, J. Calvin Demon River Apurimac: The First Navigation
of the Upper Amazon Canyons
Goldman, Irving The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon
Goldman, Irving et al. Cubeo Hehenewa Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People
Goodman, Susan E Adventures in the Amazon Rain Forest (Ultimate Field Trip)
Gordon, Nick Wild Amazon: A Photographer's View of Amazonia
*Goulding, Michael Floods of Fortune: Ecology & Economy along
the Amazon
Goulding, Michael So Fruitful a Fish: Ecology, Conservation &
Aquaculture of the Amazon's Tambaqui
Goulding, Michael The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon
Goulding, Michael The Catfish Connection: Ecology, Migration, & Conservation of Amazon Predators
Grable, Donovan B. Anyone for Diamonds?: Memoirs of an American Oil Man in the Amazon Basin
Graf, Mike The Amazon River (Fact Finders Land and Water)
Gustaveson, Dave The Amazon stranger
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Hansom, Patricia British Museum Colouring Books: the Amazon Rainforest
*Harris, Roger J. The Amazon: The Bradt Travel Guide
Harsha, William N. Like a Living Sea: An American Surgeon's Amazon
Journal
Healy, Kevin Llamas, Weavings & Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes & Amazon of Bolivia
Hegen, Edmund E. Highways into the Upper Amazon Basin: Pioneer
Lands in Southern Colombia, Ecuador, & Northern Peru
Henderson, Andrew The Palms of the Amazon
Herman, Marc Searching for El Dorado: A Journey into the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World"s Largest Gold Rush
Herndon, William Lewis et al Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Holman, Alan White River, Brown Water: A Record-Making Kayak Journey down the Amazon
Hoppe, Dieter The World of Amazon Parrots
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Ibbotson, Eva and Kevin Hawkes Journey to the River Sea
*Insight Guides Staff Amazon Wildlife
Johnson, Allen Families of the Forest: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
Johnson, C. Rainforests: Land Use Options for Amazonia: Resource Pack
Johnson, Darv The Amazon Rainforest
Johnson, Paul Amazon Rainforest
Junek, Bruce B. Andes to the Amazon: Seven Journeys in Mexico,
Central & South America
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Kallen, Stuart A. Life in the Amazon Rain-Forest
Kane, Joe Running the Amazon
Kimerling, Judy Amazon Crude
Kinder, Gary Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
King, Elizabeth Selva Central: History, Economy, & Land Use
in the Peruvian Amazon
Koertge, Noretta Valley of the Amazons
Kozar, Richard Theodore Roosevelt & the Exploration of the
Amazon Basin
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Lamb, F. Bruce Kidnapped in the Amazon Jungle
Lamb, F. Bruce Rio Tigre & Beyond: The Amazon Jungle Medicine
of Manuel Cordova
Lamb, F. Bruce Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel
Cordova-Rios
Lansky, Doug Up the Amazon Without a Paddle
Lansky, Doug Up the Amazon Without a Paddle: A Humorist's Offbeat Adventures Around the World
Lantermann, Werner Amazon Parrots
Le Breton, Binka Voices from the Amazon
Lessem, Don Inside the Amazing Amazon
Lewin, Ted Amazon Boy
Libecap, Gary D. Titles, Conflict & Land Use: The Development of Property Rights & Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier
Livesay, Ann Death in the Amazon
Lorch, Carlos Jungle Warriors: Defenders of the Amazon
Lorimer English & Irish Settlement on the River Amazon
Lowe, Peter Amazon Colonists: Family Photographs from the Ecuadorian
Amazon
Lumry, Amanda Amazon River Rescue (Adventures of Riley)
Lutz, Dick Hidden Amazon: The Greatest Voyage in Natural History
M
Macdonald, Theodore Ethnicity & Culture Amidst New "Neighbors":
The Runa of Ecuador's Amazon Region
MacGregor, Rob Peter Benchley's Amazon No.1: The Ghost Tribe
Mack, Stevie World Beneath a Canopy: Life & Art in the Amazon
MacMillan, Gordon At the End of the Rainbow?: Gold, Land, &
People in the Brazilian Amazon
Margarshack, David The Amazon & Other Stories
Margolis, Mac The Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier
Maxwell, Nicole Witch-Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon
McClain, Michael E. The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin
McClearin, Veronica Children of the New Amazon (Out of print)
McDermott, Gerald Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the
Amazon
Mee, Margaret In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: Diaries of an English Artist Reveal the Beauty of the Vanishing Rainforest
Meggers, Betty J. Archeological Investigations at the Mouth of the Amazon
Meister, Cari Amazon River (Rivers and Lakes)
Menten, Theodore Amazon Indian Designs from Brazilian & Guianan Wood Carvings
Metzner, Ralph Ayahuasca: Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature
Milliken, William Maracá: The Biodiversity and Environment of an Amazonian Rainforest
Mitchell, John G. The Man Who Would Dam the Amazon & Other Accounts from Afield
Molnar, Alexander The Land Beyond Time Adventure in the Amazon: An Al Ranlom Action Adventure Novel
*Montgomery, Sy Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
Moran, Emilio F. Developing the Amazon
Morrison, Marion The People and Places: The Amazon Rainforest and Its People
Mulawka, Edward J. Yellow-Fronted Amazon Parrots
Muratorio, Blanca Culture & History in Ecuadorian Upper Amazon: The Life & Times of Grandfather Alonso
Murdocca, Sal Afternoon on the Amazon
Muscutt, Keith Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization of the Upper Amazon of Peru
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Nesbitt, Kris My Amazon River Day
Nittrouer, C. A. Sedimentary Processes on the Amazon Continental Shelf
Noblet, Martine The Amazon & the Americas
Norwood, Victor G. Drums along the Amazon
Nugent, Stephen and Humphrey Ocean Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks
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O'Connor, Geoffrey Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing
Frontier
O'Hanlon Redmond In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
Opendall, Francois Challenging the Amazon: The Ultimate Adventure
Oppenheim, Lois The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories from
a Vanishing World
Ozorio de Almeida, A. L. The Colonization of the Amazon
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Pace, Richard The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupa Revisited
Paradise, Paul Amazon Parrots
Patrick, Ruth The Catherwood Foundation Peruvian-Amazon Expedition:
Limnological & Systematic Studies
Pearson, David et al. Brazil-Amazon and Pantanal
Penny, Norman D. Insects of an Amazon Forest
Perkins, John The World Is As You Dream It: Shamanic Teachings from the Amazon & Andes
Perry, Foster The Violet Forest: Shamanic Journeys in the Amazon
Pesce, Celestino Oil Palms & Other Oilseeds of the Amazon
Pinter, Helmut Amazon Parrots in Your Home
Pirotta, Saviour Stories from the Amazon
Platt, Richard and Rupert Van Wyk The Vanishing Rainforest
*Plotkin, Mark J. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
Pollard, M. The Amazon
Popescu, Petru Amazon Beaming
Potter, M. DK ELT Graded Readers - Elementary B: the Amazon
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Quackenbush, Robert Lost in the Amazon: A Miss Mallard Mystery
Quaife, Darlene B. Days & Nights on the Amazon
Raffles, Hugh In Amazonia : A Natural History
Reichel-Dolmatoff, G. Basketry As Metaphor: Arts & Crafts
of the Desana Indians of the Northwest Amazon
Reichel-Dolmatoff, G. Rainforest Shamans: Essays on the Tukano Indians of the Northwest Amazon
Revkin, Andrew C. The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes & the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
Reynolds, Jan Amazon Basin: Vanishing Cultures
Ricciardi, Mirella Vanishing Amazon
Ritchie, Mark Andrew Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman"s Story
Robbins, Tom The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic
Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism,
the Rebirth of the Goddess & the End of History
Rocha, Jan Murder in the Rainforest: The Yanomami, the Gold Miners and the Amazon
Roe, Peter Arts of the Amazon
Roe, Peter G. The Cosmic Zygote: Cosmology in the Amazon Basin
Rollins, James Amazonia
Roosevelt, Anna C. Moundbuilders of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Marajo Island, Brazil
Rudel, Thomas K. Tropical Deforestation: Small Farmers & Land Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Russo, Ethan The Last Sorcerer : Echoes of the Rainforest
Rylands, Anthony B. The Status of Conservation Areas in the Brazilian Amazon
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Savoy, Gene Antisuyo: The Search for the Lost Cities of the Amazon
Schneider, Robert R. Government & the Economy on the Amazon
Frontier
Schulte, Rainer Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes,
Set
Schultes, Richard E Where the Gods Reign: Plants & Peoples
of the Colombian Amazon
*Schultes, Richard E. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants
& Rituals in the Colombian Amazon
Schwartz, David M. Yanomami: People of the Amazon
Schwontkowski, Donna Herbs of the Amazon: Common & Traditional Uses
Scoones, Simon The Amazon (River Journey)
Segal, Ariel Jews of the Amazon: Self-Exile in Paradise
Seidl, Peter R. Chemistry of the Amazon: Biodiversity, Natural
Products, & Environmental Issues
Shoumatoff, Alex In Southern Light: Trekking Through Zaire &
the Amazon
Shoumatoff, Alex The Rivers Amazon
Sims, Alida The Amazon: River of Promise
Sioli, Harold The Amazon: Limnology and Landscape Ecology of a Mighty Tropical River and Its Basin
Slater, Candace Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
*Smith, Anthony Explorers of the Amazon
Smith, Anthony Science on Amazon
Smith, Nigel The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants,
Animals, & People
Smith, Nigel Man, Fishes, & the Amazon
Smith, Nigel Rainforest Corridors
Smith, Nigel Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River's Mouth
Souza, Marcio Emperor of the Amazon
Springer, Jane Tales of the Amazon: How the Munduruku Indians
Live
Spruce, Richard Hepaticae of the Amazon & Andes of Peru &
Ecuador
Stanfield, Michael E. Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery
& Empire in the Northwest Amazon, 1850-1933
Starkell, Don Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe
Adventure
Steen, Harold K. Plantation Forestry in the Amazon: The Jari Experience
Sterling, Keir B. The Principal Contributions of Henry Walter
Bates to a Knowledge of the Butterflies & Longicorn Beetles
of the Amazon Valley: Original Anthology
Stiff, Ruth Margaret Mee: Return to the Amazon
Stuart, W. Howard Peril in the Amazon, Vol. 4
Stuart, W. Howard Rex in the Amazon, Vol. 3
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Talbott, Hudson Amazon Diary: The Jungle Adventures of Alex Winters
Taylor, Leslie Herbal Secrets of the Rainforest : Over 50 Powerful Herbs and Their Medicinal Uses
Teitler, Risa Taming & Training Amazon Parrots
Telford, Carole and Rod Theodoro Up a Rainforest Tree (Amazing Journeys)
Terezakis, Diane Maiz y Coca-Cola: Adventures, Scrapes, & Shamanism in the Amazon & Andes
*Tidwell, Mike Amazon Stranger: A Rainforest Battles Big Oil
Tierney, Patrick Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists & Journalists
Devastated the Amazon
Trudell, Barbara Beyond the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy Acquisition
among Peruvian Amazon Communities
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Ukens, Lorraine L Adventure in the Amazon: Leader's Guide
Ukens, Lorraine L. Adventure in the Amazon: Activity
Val, A. L. Fishes of the Amazon & Their Environment: Physiology
& Biochemical Aspects
van Straten, Michael Guarana: The Energy Seeds & Herbs of
the Amazon Rainforest
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*Wade Davis The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey Of Richard Evans Schultes
Wagley, Charles Man in the Amazon
Wallace, Alfred R. Narrative of Travels on the Amazon & Rio Negro
Walls, Jerry G. Poison Frogs of the Family Dendrobatidae: Jewels of the Rainforest
Waterlow, Julia The Amazon (Rivers of the World)
Webb, Alex Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds
Weinstein, Barbara The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920
Werlich, David P. Admiral of the Amazon: John Randolph Tucker, His Confederate Colleagues, & Peru
Werner, Dennis. Amazon Journey
Wesche, Rolf and Andy Drumm Defending Our Rainforest: A Guide to Community-Based Ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon
White, Steven F. Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine
Whitehead, Neil L. and Robin Wright In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
Willow, Diane and Laura Jacques At Home in the Rainforest
Woodson, Marion The Amazon Influence
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Young, Allen M. and Judith Huf Tropical Rainforests (Golden Guide)
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