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1	Three singles to Adventure more books like this by Gerald Malcolm Durrell add to wishlist Gerald Durrell is on his way to South America on a quest to capture specimens that have never been brought back alive before. And it turns into quite an adventure when he encounters timid squirrel monkeys, wailing rats, an overly affectionate bird christened Cuthbert and a bad-tempered anaconda! Bringing back a living collection of animals can be ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple more books like this by Deborah Layton add to wishlist The author escaped from Jim Jones''s cult 6 m onths before he and his followers committed mass suicide. Th at was in 1978, now in 1998 the author explains how such an event could happen and her personal observations at the time it happened. ' see all copies from $5.50! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Seductive Poison more books like this by Deborah Layton, Charles Krause add to wishlist A memoir of life in the Jonestown cult, written by a woman who escaped prior to the 1978 mass suicide by the followers of Jim Jones. see all copies from $4.78! new only from $60.95! \| first editions
4	Palace of the peacock more books like this by Wilson Harris add to wishlist A tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana. In this novel, first published in 1960, can be traced the poetic vision, the themes and the designs of Harris's subsequent work, which included "The Guyana Quartet". see all copies from $7.29! signed copies \| first editions
5	Our Father Who Art in Hell: The Life & Death of Jim Jones more books like this by James Reston, Jr. add to wishlist see all copies from $2.52! signed copies \| first editions
6	Six years with God : life inside Reverend Jim Jones's Peoples Temple more books like this by Jeannie Mills add to wishlist see all copies from $4.01! first editions
7	Buxton Spice more books like this by Oonya Kempadoo add to wishlist A novel of sexual awakening, against the chaotic background of 70's Guyana from a glowing and distinctive new Afro Caribbean voice. In the chaotic multi cultural atmosphere of Golden Grove, with African, Asian, Native American and Putagee voices mingling to create an exuberant language of Guyana's own, 4 little girls, 2 sets of sisters, all on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions \| SVS
8	People's Temple, people's tomb more books like this by Phil Kerns, Doug Wead add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
9	Edge of the jungle more books like this by William Beebe add to wishlist Edge of the Jungle collects twelve amusing and heartfelt essays by naturalist Beebe on the destructive and comical activities of army ants and their leaf-cutting vegetarian cousins, the flight of enormous bats, tarantulas and the hawks that hunt them, and many other fascinating forms of tropical life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Dark Shamans-CL more books like this by Neil L Whitehead, Ph.D., Neil L Whitehead add to wishlist On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaima, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil, which involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ... see all copies from $8.81! new only from $8.81!
11	Shape-shifter more books like this by Pauline Melville add to wishlist From Comrade Shakespeare McNab who enlists the help of La Diablesse to retrieve his faltering career at a Caribbean broadcasting station, to the 14-year-old English girl who develops a terror of infinity; Pauline Melville lures the reader into intriguingly different worlds. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	In My Father's House more books like this by Min S Yee, Thomas N Layton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
13	When the Singing Stops more books like this by Di Morrissey add to wishlist When Madison Wright visits her brother in Guyana, she is drawn into a landscape and culture threatened by greed and corruption. Campaigning for the preservation of the Kaieteur waterfall - and the world's rarest gold frog - Madi isn't prepared for Connor Bain, and a love that catches them unawares. see all copies from $12.29! new only from $25.10! \| signed copies
14	Wanderings in South America more books like this by Charles Waterton add to wishlist For years readers have enjoyed Charles Waterton's intriguing book, Wanderings in South America, about his adventurous travels in Guiana, West Indies. Waterton, a famous English eccentric and naturalist, returned to England in 1821 from an expedition to Guiana, where he had collected hundreds of specimens of South American wildlife, all carefully ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $11.10! \| first editions \| SVS
15	White Night: The True Story of What Happened Before - & After - Jonestown more books like this by John P. Nugent add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16	Jungle cowboy more books like this by Stanley E. Brock add to wishlist see all copies from $3.50! signed copies \| first editions
17	Jungle days more books like this by William Beebe add to wishlist 1923. With seven illustrations. William Beebe was one of this century's leading pioneers into the oceanic world. The Brooklyn, New York, native possessed an unrelenting curiosity about the natural world around, and beneath, him. Through his dozens of books describing his various expeditions, Beebe brought the average citizen in closer touch with ... see all copies from $2.07! new only from $17.81! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Dear People: Remembering Jonestown more books like this by Denice Stephenson (Editor) add to wishlist Denice Stephenson describes the heartbreaking tragedy of Jonestown---the idealistic community movement that preceded it--presented in text and photos from the Peoples Temple Archive. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $55.52!
19 view cover	Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana more books like this by Raymond Thomas Smith, Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor) add to wishlist Is a family system that permits freedom to enter, dissolve, and re-enter sexual unions, that tolerates high illegitimacy rates, and allows a large proportion of households to be headed by women, viable, natural and healthy? This is an appropriate question to ask of many modern industrial societies in the 1980s. Yet a system with just those factors ... see all copies from $14.89! new only from $24.45! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado more books like this by D Graham Burnett add to wishlist Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, this text tells the story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's South American colony, Guyana. How did 19th-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to ... see all copies from $20.99! new only from $36.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Ministry of Hope more books like this by Roy Heath add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Professor of Light more books like this by Marina Budhos add to wishlist The family life of a Guyanese professor of philosophy, his Brooklyn-Jewish wife, and their young daughter becomes strained when they spend a summer in England. Narrated by the daughter, the story takes in the professor's writing project (a book about the dual nature of light), the strains of an extended stay with relatives, and the daughter's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 more books like this by Emilia Viotti Da Costa add to wishlist A remarkable study of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere. In 1823 Demerara (now Guyana), 60,000 black slaves rose up against their British masters and then were brutally put down. With gripping narrative, this book explores the conflicts within the society that gave the rebellion life, and the larger ... see all copies from $3.93! new only from $5.25! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Guyana more books like this by Alexis Rockman (Illustrator), Katherine Dunn add to wishlist In 1994, artist Alexis Rockman ventured to the dense jungles of Guyana, the site for this fantastic dreamscape of biological life. Rockman's world of nature -- described by the artist as "zoos in outer space" -- is tempered by a penchant for the bizarre and the grotesque, but always based upon intimate observation of the environs. Monumental ... see all copies from $13.80! new only from $23.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown more books like this by Laurie Efrein Kahalas add to wishlist Survivor's riveting tale. Leftwing, interracial church transplants to utopia overseas. Premeditated government conspiracy destabilizes and destroys. Breathtaking, one-of-a-kind tour-de-force. see all copies from $24.00! new only from $72.41! \| signed copies \| first editions

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