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Some
Interesting Links:
If you've been reading
carefully, you've already encountered other links throughout
the site. Here's some more links that hopefully will be of
interest.
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Guide Books:
The Lonely Planet Travel Guide to
Bolivia:
- The Lonely Planet produces an excellent series of guide
books. Their guide to Bolivia is a useful introduction to the
country (with some exceptions). They also maintain an interesting
website. You will find it at: Destination
Bolivia.
The Complete Bolivian Travel
Guide
- This site contains a 25 page guide that can be downloaded.
It is the creation of the people at Andean Rural Health Care
(http://www.main.nc.us/ARHC/travmain.htm).
who present the guide in order to: "help you prepare for your
trip, understand the diverse culture of Bolivia and enrich your
visit." Sounds good to me.
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Books
of Interest:
A Neotropical Companion
- Considered by many to be the best introduction to animals,
plants, and ecology in the Neotropics. Very complete, with some
nice photos. Written by John Kricher. Published by Princton
University Press. A great "first read". The Second Edition (1997)
has expanded information on montane sites (i.e. the cloud forest),
which should be of interest for anyone participating in Andes to
Amazon.
Tropical Nature
- A great introduction to an immensly interesting, endlessly
complex subject. Why waste time listening to Andes to Amazon's
staff botanist (or, to near-mythical staff ornithologist Daniel
Nash) when you can read this. Written by Adrian Forsyth and Ken
Miyata, published by Macmillan Publishing. Inexpensive, but a
bargain at any price.
White Water and Black
- An extremely entertaining, sometimes painfully frank,
account of the Mulford Scientific Expedition to Bolivia in the
early 1920's: "the best-funded scientific expedition in history".
A personal favorite, this book should be required reading for
anyone contemplating research in the tropics (or communal living).
You'll probably have to go through a library to get ahold of
it, but well worth the trouble.
Lost Trails, Lost Cities
- The memoirs of the Colonel Percy Fawcett: the remarkable
British explorer and surveyor. Fawcett's photographs
of the mysterious Serrania de Huanchaca - an imposing, isolated
plateau in eastern Bolivia - served as the inspiration for Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World'. Many
aspects of 'Lost Trails, Lost Cities' are hard to accept at face
value, but Fawcett's accounts of his journeys are still
fascinating reading. The book also contains many
interesting photos of early 20th century Bolovia. And
for those who have survived the Andes to Amazon experience,
Fawcett's accounts of his travels might make your own Bolivian
experiences seem a little less grueling.
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Other
Educational and/or Travel
Programs:
PROJECT SMART
- Project
SMART is a summer program for high school students with
an interest in Limnology and/or Aquatic Ecology. Participants
conduct hands-on field studies with faculty and graduate students
who have extensive field research experience. They are introduced
to field instrumentation, experimental design, data collection,
analysis, and interpretation. Field projects generate data that
are intepreted with statistics and graphics, and are integrated
with math and computer sciences. Field trips include a
freshwater-marine gradient from upland lakes and streams to the
Jackson Estuarine Laboratory on Great Bay, and the offshore Isles
of Shoals Marine Station on Appledore Island. A series of special
lectures presented by invited speakers covers special "hot" topics
in Limnology and Oceanography, such as long-term trends in water
quality related to human impacts and natural episodic
events.
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Other
Links:
TOTE LE MONDE:
- Tote le
Monde offers a line of leather bags, which combine
quality design and materials with functionality. Founder and
leather bag goddess, Tia Wou, is a long time friend, and anybody
who has participated in Andes to Amazon has seen at least some of
the Tote le Monde goods. Check out this link.
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