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.

Guide Books	General Reading
Other Educational/Travel Programs	Other Links

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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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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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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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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