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1	The Yanomamo more books like this by Napoleon A Chagnon add to wishlist Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $43.63!
2	The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost more books like this by Jean Liedloff, John Holt (Designer) add to wishlist Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well ... see all copies from $3.78! new only from $8.91! \| signed copies \| SVS
3	Bruchko more books like this by Bruce R Olson add to wishlist What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson it meant capture and torture, but what he discovered revolutionized the world of missions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Dragons in the Water more books like this by Madeleine L'Engle add to wishlist While on board a freighter sailing for Venezuela, Polly and Charles O'Keefe, as well as their scientist father and Uncle Forsyth, get caught up in the intriguing lives of their fellow passengers. see all copies from $1.99!
5	Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon more books like this by Henri Charriere add to wishlist Here at last is the sensational sequel to "Papillon" - the great story of escape and adventure that took the world by storm. "Banco" continues the adventures of Henri Charriere - nicknamed 'Papillon' - in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.07! \| first editions
6	Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle: How Bruce Olson Brought a Stone Age Tribe Into the 21st Century more books like this by Bruce Olson, James Lund add to wishlist The powerful sequel to Olson's best-selling missionary classic, "Bruchko," details his missionary work and events from the 1970s to the present. see all copies from $4.83! new only from $5.85! \| SVS
7	Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the United States more books like this by Nikolas Kozloff add to wishlist A timely look at Venezuela's controversial president Hugo Chavez see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19 Year Old Ameican, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe. more books like this by Bruce Olson add to wishlist What happens when a 19-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. This revised version of Olson's story is a reminder that simple faith in Christ can make anything possible. see all copies from $6.60! new only from $8.23! \| SVS
9	Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest more books like this by Jacques Lizot add to wishlist The Yanomami Indians of the Venezuelan Forest are to some extent known already to the outside world through the books that have been written, and the films that have been made about them. In this book, Jacques Lizot allows the Indians to speak for themselves. The result is a rich, evocative and intimate account of the way in which they perceive, ... see all copies from $12.23! new only from $26.13! \| SVS
10	Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela more books like this by Pei-Lin Yu, Pei-Lin Yu add to wishlist A young student of archaeology receives an offer she can't refuse, the chance to live among the Pume, a South American hunting-and-gathering people who call the tropical Venezuelan savannah home. During their time in the village of Doro Ana, the author and the principal researcher study a vanishing way of life in which cash money, the written word ... see all copies from $5.71! new only from $54.22! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America more books like this by Douglas Schoen, Michael Rowan add to wishlist Drawing on two decades of experience working at the highest level of Venezuelan and American politics, Schoen and Rowan go behind the scenes to examine the efforts of Hugo Chavez--the current president of Venezuela--to subvert the American economy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venzuela more books like this by Brian A Nelson add to wishlist A dramatic retelling of how the 2002 uprising against Hugo Chavez evolved into a violent struggle for the soul of Venezuela and control of its most precious commodity, oil see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Co: Abridged Edition more books like this by Professor Alexander Von Humboldt, Malcolm Nicolson (Introduction by), Alexander Von Humboldt add to wishlist One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna of the new ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $8.50! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Chavez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela more books like this by Eva Golinger, Saul Landau (Introduction by) add to wishlist Perhaps no world leader is better placed to challenge the global authority of the United States than Hugo Chavez, the populist leader of Venezuela. As the head of one of the world's largest oil-producing countries. Chavez has been instrumental in raising world oil prices, undermining the control and profits of the multinational oil companies, and ... see all copies from $2.87! new only from $6.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon more books like this by Redmond O'Hanlon add to wishlist Redmond O'Hanlon found few experienced adventurers willing to accompany him on his four-month trip up the Orinoco river and across the Amazon Basin. He wondered why...Was it perhaps the fear of contracting dysentery, rabies or river blindness? Or maybe it was a disinclination to meet peckish jaguars, vipers, anacondas and 640-volt electric eels? ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.90! \| first editions
16 view cover	Spirit of the Rainforest more books like this by Mark Andrew Ritchie add to wishlist The Yanamamo of the Amazon -- endangered children of nature or indigenous warmongers on the verge of destroying themselves? Now for the first time, a powerful Yanomamo shaman speaks for his people. Jungleman provides shocking, never-before-answered accounts of life-or-death battles among his people -- and perhaps even more disturbing among the ... see all copies from $8.51! new only from $11.27!
17 view cover	Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon more books like this by Sy Montgomery, Dianne Taylor-Snow (Photographer) add to wishlist "Encantado" invites readers on the adventure of a life time as they travel into one of the world's most lush and beautiful jungles in search of the magical pink dolphins and the beauty, diversity and magic of the Amazon. Photos. see all copies from $4.37! new only from $5.91!
18 view cover	The Hacienda: A Memoir more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist From a prize-winning British author comes a lush, absorbing memoir--an "Out of Africa" set in the Venezuelan Andes. Tremendously atmospheric, "The Hacienda" brilliantly evokes the unique confluence of time, place, and people that shaped this powerful writer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.09! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle more books like this by Marc De Civrieux, Marc De Civrieux, Jean-Marc De Civrieux add to wishlist Originally published in Spanish in 1970, "Watunna" is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present. The first English edition of this book was published in 1980 to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.82! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Hugo Chavez more books like this by Cristina Marcano, Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Professor Moises Naim (Introduction by) add to wishlist This major new biography of the controversial Chvez is an in-depth profile of a new kind of South American leader--a man who is taking a daring place on the global stage with the grassroots socialist movement that is sweeping his native Venezuela. 16-page photo insert. see all copies from $3.58! new only from $4.99!
21 view cover	Continuum Concept more books like this by Jean Liedloff add to wishlist "The Continuum Concept" introduces the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings - especially babies - require the kind of instinctive nurturing as practiced by our ancient relatives. It is a true 'back to basics' approach to parenting. Author Jean Liedloff spent two and-a-half years in the ... see all copies from $3.84! new only from $11.32! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Simon Bolivar: Liberation and Disappointment more books like this by David Bushnell add to wishlist This biography highlights the political career and principles of South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar. The titles in the new Library of World Biography series make ideal supplements for World History survey courses or other courses in the history curriculum where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief and inexpensive, each ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.60! \| SVS
23	Culture Shock more books like this by Margaret Jank add to wishlist see all copies from $3.18!
24 view cover	Sky Hunters: Operation Southern Cross more books like this by Jack Shane add to wishlist The elite helicopter pilots of the Night Stalkers' experimental X-Battallion are sent on a unique but extremely dangerous mission to destroy a threat to the United States that's hidden in South America. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.60! \| first editions
25 view cover	Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker more books like this by Marta Harnecker, Hugo Chavez add to wishlist Marta Harnecker's interviews with Hugo Chavez began soon after one of the most dramatic moments of Chavez's presidency--the failed coup of April 2002, which ended with Chavez restored to power by a massive popular movement of protest and resistance. In the aftermath of the failed coup, Chavez talks to Harnecker about the formation of his political ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $12.14! \| SVS

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