 | Birds of Venezuela (Princeton Paperbacks) by SL Hilty
Buy used from: £48.05 (Birds first of course) The birders bible. Furthermore, one of the best guides to any New World avifauna and handy in Guyana, Brazil, Trinidad and Colombia too.
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 | Birding in Venezuela by Mary Lou Goodwin
Buy used from: £61.37 And where to find them once you get here...
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 | Birds of Tropical America: A Watcher's Introduction to Behavior, Breeding, and Diversity (Mildred Wyatt-Wold Series in Ornithology) by Steven L. Hilty
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £16.49 But if you are still curious... A superbly recounted biology of the birds of the American tropics by an acknowledged authority, the author of the Venezuela and Colombia field guides. Excellent!
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 | Mammals of the Neotropics: The Northern Neotropics - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana v. 1 (Mammals of Neotropics) by Eisenberg
Buy new: £37.99 / Used from: £40.00 Never very comprehensive and is getting out of date, but still the only guide in English. If your read Spanish, try to get the excellent Audubon Society Guide (Linares).
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 | Neotropical Rain Forest Mammals: Field Guide by LH Emmons
Buy new: £23.99 / Used from: £31.32 A useful guide for Venezuela and handy throughout the Neotropics.
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 | The Butterflies of Venezuela: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification of Adult Nymphalidae, Papilionidae and Pieridae: Nymphalidae I (Limenitidinae, Apaturinae, Charaxinae) Pt. 1 by Andrew F.E. Neild
Buy new: £75.00 Wonderful! A tremendous job. This is the first of several volumes and the only way to identify Venezuelan butterflies at present. Not cheap though!
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| Butterflies of South America by Bernard D'Abrera
Buy used from: £75.27 Excellent! And small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. Sadly out of print at the moment.
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 | Dragonfly Genera of the New World: An Illustrated and Annotated Key to the Anisoptera by Rosser W. Garrison
Buy new: £56.10 / Used from: £56.10 Not yet published in the UK, but available in the US. I haven't seen this yet, but it looks set to fill a conspicuous hole in the reference literature on Neotropical nature.
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 | Latin American Insects and Entomology by Charles L. Hogue
Buy used from: £105.13 A charming book that few people seem to have heard about. It's the only introduction to the insects of the Neotropics. Pricey, but you won't regret it.
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| Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana: Introduction v.1: Introduction Vol 1
A superb reference, even for the non-botanist. I use it mostly for the introductory information on geography, landforms and exploration.
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 | A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Columbia, Ecuador, Peru) by AH Gentry
Buy new: £38.48 / Used from: £39.44 Indispensable if you are to get anywhere with tree identification.
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 | Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas (Princeton Paperbacks) by Andrew Henderson
A comprehensive guide to the palms. Well worth the price, especially if you travel regularly to the New World tropics.
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 | A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics (Second Edition) by John Kricher
Buy new: £17.71 / Used from: £14.19 An excellent overview of Neotropical nature.
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 | Personal Narrative: Of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (Penguin Classics) by Alexander Humboldt
Buy new: £8.12 / Used from: £7.42 Fascinating! Even with maps, GPS, satellite phones, GoreTex, DEET and helicopters, it is hard to follow in Humboldt's footsteps.
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| High jungle by William Beebe
Buy used from: £1.70 Beebe's story of the Rancho Grande Biological Station (Henri Pittier NP) in the early C20th will be fascinating to visitors.
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 | Venezuela (Bradt Travel Guide Venezuela) by Hilary Dunsterville Branch
Buy used from: £7.50 The best general travel guide, by Hilary Branch.
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 | Venezuela (Traveler's Companion) by D. Hamilton
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £0.01 Another great travel guide but getting a little out-of-date now.
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 | Venezuela (Travel Reference Map): Kevin Healeys Travel Map. A Travellers Reference Map by Treaty Oak
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £8.94 Don't leave home without it! Though keep an eye out for the new maps by Emilio Perez.
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