Central American Sea kayak Expedition > Recommended Readings
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| Title | Author | Publisher |
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Central America Inside Out |
Tom Barry |
Grove Atlantic, US |
Central America: A Nation Divided |
Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. |
Oxford University Press |
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America |
Peter Dale-Scott and Jonathan Marshall |
University of California |
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua |
In Focus |
LAB/Interlink Books |
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama |
Inside |
LAB/Resource Center Press |
Power in the Isthmus and The Pacification of Central America |
James Dunkerley |
Norton/Verso |
War on the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America |
William Weinberg |
Zed Books/Humanities Press |
| Title | Author | Publisher |
Beyond the Mexique Bay |
Aldous Huxley |
Flamingo, UK |
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan |
John Lloyd Stephens |
Dover |
So far from God |
Patrick Marnham |
Penguin |
Travels in the New World |
Thomas Gage |
University of Oklahoma Press |
Through the Volcanoes |
Jeremy Paxman |
Paladin |
Archeology and Maya Civilization
| Title | Author | Publisher |
A Forest of Kings |
Linda Schele and Mary Miller |
Quill, US |
An Archeological Guide to Northern Central America |
Joyce Kelly |
University of Oklahoma |
The Ancient Maya |
Robert Sharer |
Stanford University |
The Code of Kings |
Linda Schele and Peter Mathew |
Shribner, US |
The Maya |
Michael Coe |
Thames & Hudson |
The Maya Cosmos |
Linda Schele, David Freidel, and Joy Parker |
Quill, US |
The Rise and Fall of the Maya Civilization |
J. Eric. S. Thompson |
University of Oklahoma |
| Title | Author | Publisher |
A Neotropical Companion |
John C. Kricher |
Princeton University Press |
In the Rainforest |
Catherine Caulfield |
Knopf, US |
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals |
Louise H. Emmons |
University of Chicago |
The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America |
Steve Howe and Sophie Webb |
Oxford University Press |
| Title | Author | Publisher |
And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America |
Rosario Santos (ed) |
Ryan Publishing, UK |
Note: You can buy books at discounted rates through Amazon.com by following the publisher links on our selected books, or you can access our page with book content information and our recommendations by clicking on the title. Books in Red are Luke's picks
Archeology and Maya Civilization
| Title | Author | Publisher |
John S. Henderson |
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Linda Schele, David Freidel (Contributor) |
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Dennis Tedlock (Translator) |
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Michael D. Coe |
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An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya |
Mary Miller, Karl Taube (Contributor) |
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Michael D. Coe, Justin Kerr |
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Joyce Kelly |
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Robert Sharer |
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The Code of Kings : The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs |
Linda Schele and Peter Mathew |
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Michael D. Coe |
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Linda Schele, David Freidel, and Joy Parker |
| Title | Author | Publisher |
Resplandor de colores, Trajes indigenas Mayas de Guatemala |
written in Japanese and published by the: |
Tokyo Kasei Daigaku, 1998 |
Gianni Vecchiato |
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George W. Druckerei, Carmen L. Pettersen |
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Maya Textiles of Guatemala : The Gustavus A. Eisen Collection |
Margot Blum Schevill, Christopher H. Lutz, Phoebe Apperson Hearst |
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Christine Conte |
| Title | Author | Publisher |
Jean-Marie Simon |
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Victor Perera, Daniel Chauche (Photographer) |
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Doing Business With the Dictators : A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944 |
Paul J. Dosal |
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Rigoberta Menchu |
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Bridge of Courage : Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companeras |
Jennifer Harbury, Noam Chomsky (Introduction) |
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The Blood of Guatemala : A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise) |
Greg Grandin |
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Stephen C. Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, Stephen E. Schlesinger, Richard A. Nuccio |
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Voices from Exile : Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History |
Victor Montejo |
Tourist and Specific Guidebooks
| Title | Author | Publisher |
Conner Gorry |
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Tom Brosnahan |
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Trish O'Kane |
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Mark Whatmore |
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Richard Mahler |
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