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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Redmond O'Hanlon
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918.704633
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Publication Date: 1990-04-14
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: O'Hanlon takes us into the bug-ridden rain forest between the Orinoco and the Amazon--infested with jaguars and piranhas, where men would kill over a bottle of ketchup and where the locals may be the most violent people on earth (next to hockey fans).
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Price: $24.99
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Sale: $14.25
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Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Kohnstamm::Sandra Bao::Beth Kohn::Jens Porup::Daniel Schechter
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Publisher: Lonely Planet
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918
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Publication Date: 2007-08-01
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: Discover Venezuela
Get drenched by nearly 1km of cascading water beneath the world's highest waterfall,p.310.
Sink your toes into sugar-white sands on an uninhabited island in Archipielago Los Roques, p.101.
Crunch on chocolate-coated hormigas culonas - deep-fried Amazonian ants with big, juicy rear ends, p.49.
Hear howler monkeys roar as you cruise the wildlife-rich channels of the Delta del Orinoco, p.289.
In This Guide:
Five authors, 187 days of in-country research, 495 arepas, 52 detailed maps, one paragliding accident.
You asked, we delivered: more off-the-beaten-path coverage of the Andes and Los Llanos.
Expanded focus on sustainable travel helps readers plan environmentally and socially responsible adventures.
Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews and traveler suggestions.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $16.29
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Manufacturer: Insight Guides
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Angela Baynham
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Publisher: Insight Guides
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Edition: 4 Upd Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918
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Publication Date: 2003-01
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Reading Level: 378
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Description: Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find: .Evocative, full-colour photography on every page .Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout .A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest .A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children
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Price: $23.99
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Sale: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Krzysztof Dydynski
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Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917
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Publication Date: 2004-08
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: Track jaguars around mysterious tabletop mountains and raft through Amazonian rain forest. Relax on a palm-fringed Caribbean beach or put on your party shoes and enjoy Caracas' infamous nightlife. Whether you want to soar over Angel Falls, dance with Corpus Christi devils or hobnob with beauty queens and baseball teams, our unbeatable guidebook gives you detailed coverage for the adventure of a lifetime. • BE PREPARED - highlights, tailored itineraries and an all new 'getting started' section help get your trip underway
• EXPLORE - follow Bolivar's footsteps with more than 80 detailed maps
• DISCOVER - authoritative coverage of the country's wild and wonderful national parks, from the white sands of Los Roques to the snow-dusted peaks of the Andes
• LEARN THE LINGO with help from our practical Spanish-language guide
• REST EASY - frank, in-depth hotel and restaurant reviews eliminate the guesswork at any budget
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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $6.36
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Manufacturer: Macmillan UK
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Brian Blessed
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Publisher: Macmillan UK
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: 1999-11-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Quest For The Lost World is the fulfillment of Brian Blessed's childhood dream, a dream of reaching and exploring the plateau of Mount Roraima. Myth and legend highlight the stunning reality of Brian's epic journey as he discovers Conan Doyle's Lost World. Beautifully illustrated, the book transports the reader into a mysterious primeval landscape in the heart of Venezuela. Born in South Yorkshire, Brian Blessed has achieved great acclaim as an actor, writer, and explorer. In Quest For The Lost World, he must use all his skills to tackle and record the challenges he meets. |
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $3.79
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Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Marc Herman
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Publisher: Nan A. Talese
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918.810432
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Publication Date: 2003-02-18
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: When we think of the Amazonian rain forest, the term gold rush does not immediately spring to mind, nor does the latter summon up thoughts of late-20th-century Guyana. In Searching for El Dorado: A Journey into the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's Largest Gold Rush, Marc Herman recasts our presuppositions with a fascinating story of adventure and commercialism in post-colonial Guyana. Asking how a country so rich in precious natural resources could remain so impoverished, Herman draws on his acute observation and narrative élan to tell this complex story of fierce competition, environmentalism, history, and journalistic inquiry. "If Guyana was not benefiting from its gold because outsiders were taking it all," he writes, "if Omai was just 16th-century mercantilism promoted as 21st-century globalism--then at least the foreign robber barons should be rich. But they weren't; somehow gold was turning to smoke." Herman speaks with the precision of a journalist and the ease of a novelist, assembling a cast of marvelous personalities to describe the conditions and consequences that converge to keep Guyana among the poorest of Caribbean countries, despite the existence of gold and diamonds within its boundaries. Wisely, Herman does not advance a personal agenda. Instead, he gives a voice, in breathtaking detail, to the different constituencies that comprise this world of colorful local prospectors, foreign businessmen, and everyday people. Like the prospectors in Guyana, Herman too is on a quest--not to strip the land of gold, but rather to tell this little-known and wonderful story. --Silvana Tropea
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Sale: $6.31
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Manufacturer: Berndtson & Berndtson
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Binding: Map
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Author: Berndtson & Berndtson
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Publisher: Berndtson & Berndtson
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Edition: 3rd
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Publication Date: 2005-11-01
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Reading Level: 2
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Description: Laminated road map in color. Scale 1:750,000. Distinguishes 5 types of roads, ranging from Motorways to carriage way/dirt road. Legend shows International airports/airfields, hotels, bus stations, subways, funiculars, museums, castles, caves, points of interest, beaches, gas stations, vantage points, National Parks, recreation areas, scuba diving/windsurfing/yachting sites, cascades, International harbours. Includes inset of Amazon Region (1:2,000,000), Greater Caracas (1:450,000), Downtown Caracas (1:18,000), Isla de Margarita (1:250,000), Islas Los Roques (1:500,000), Porlamar (1: 15,000). Legend in 5 languages, including English. Climate charts show the average daily temperatures, humidity, hours of sunshine and precipitation for each month.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $193.66
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Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hilary Dunsterville-Branch
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Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
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Edition: 4th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918
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Publication Date: 2003-02-01
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Reading Level: 500
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Description: Emphasizing ecotravel, this guide describes the wide-ranging opportunities for travelers exploring a country easily accessible from the United States. Possessing nearly 100 species of hummingbird alone, Venezuela has a fantastic array of wildlife--capybara, tapir, sloths, anteaters, armadillos, and vampire bats are just a few of the animal species which can be observed in their natural habitats, while a host of birdwatching locations are detailed.
Find an impressive 43 national parks, including the marine parks of offshore islands, and 20 natural monuments including table mountains, with suggestions for hikes through cloudforests to Andean glaciers and the chance of spotting rare orchids. Take a trip to Angel Falls, travel to the Orinoco Delta wetlands where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean, visit the region where the Warao ¿canoe people¿ live, or try out a wide range of sports: from caving, climbing and cycling to diving, sailing and windsurfing. Margarita Island--the "Pearl of the Caribbean"--and a good range of beaches are also covered for the traveler wanting to follow in the footsteps of Robinson Crusoe and enjoy desert-island seclusion.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $7.96
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Manufacturer: Treaty Oak Map Distributers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Map
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Author: Jack Joyce
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Publisher: Treaty Oak Map Distributers
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Edition: 3
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Publication Date: 2000-01-01
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Reading Level: 1
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Description: Map of the country and portions of its neighbors with elevations shown by color changes. Legend locates international and state borders; settlements from major cities to villages; roads (with distances in kilometers) from freeways to seasonal roads/tracks/trails; railways; airports and airstrips; peaks with heights in meters; escarpments; points of interest; mining/prospecting; caves; archaeological sites; oilfields and pipelines; lighthouses; swamps. List of abbreviations and geographical equivalents in Spanish and English. Historic and geographic background information; descriptions of highlights. Scale 1:1,750,000. Inset maps of Caracas and environs (1:500,000); parks and reserves (with index); central Caracas (1:25,000; with index); Isla de Margarita (1:500,000); Auyuan-Tepi and Roraima regions. Printed on one side.
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Price: $9.94
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Sale: $3.99
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Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Barbara M. McMahon
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Publisher: AuthorHouse
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Dewey Decimal Number: 817
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Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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Reading Level: 139
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Description: This is an irreverently funny, intimately charming, culinarily conscious true saga of a culturally challenged couple on the loose in Latin, no problema, America. The war of worlds begins with planning a vacation in the wake of an attempted coup and proceeds down to Margarita Island, Venezuela, where pristine beaches, exotic cuisine and copious quantities of alcohol form the backdrop for the myriad disasters, aggravations and pleasures that make up a week in paradise. There is even an excursion back to the 1800’s with the couple’s historic counterparts (Simon Bolivar and Maria Guevara). The book has a lighthearted, quirky voice that captures human nature in appealingly identifiable terms. Every blissfully mismatched couple who has set toe to tarmac will want to take this trip.
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