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The rough guide to Central America on a budget
This new, fully updated edition of The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget is the ultimate guide to the region, covering all seven Central American countries in depth with Rough Guides' unique tell-it-like-it-is style. Itineraries help you choose where to go, full-colour maps show you how to get around and hundreds of detailed reviews give insider tips on where to stay, eat and party. Rough Guides' intrepid authors have climbed up Mayan monuments, braved chicken buses and hiked through jungle to give you advice on what to see, how to budget and when to splurge, while the language section gives you enough Spanish to make some new friends or simply order an ice-cold cerveza. Whether you want to go wildlife-spotting in Costa Rica's cloudforests, try volcano-boarding in Nicaragua, feel insignificant among Guatemala's Maya citadels or even all of the above, The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget has you covered. Includes: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize.
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Prairie
North America's grasslands once stretched from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and across this considerable space different prairie types evolved to express the sum of their particular longitude and latitude, soils, landforms, and aspect. This prairie guide is your roadmap to what remains of this varied and majestic landscape.
Suzanne Winckler's goal is to encourage travelers to get off the highways, out of their cars, and onto North America's last remaining prairies. She makes this adventure as easy as possible by providing exact driving directions to the more than three hundred sites in her guide. She also includes information about size, management, phone numbers, and outstanding characteristics for every prairie site and provides readers with a thorough list of recommended readings and Web sites.
The scope of the guide is impressive. It encompasses prairies found within national grasslands, parks, forests, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, state parks, preserves, and natural areas and on numerous working ranches in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. A series of maps locate the prairies both geographically and by name.
From \"the largest restoration project within the historic range of tallgrass prairie\" at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa to Big Bend National Park in Texas, where \"the Chisos Mountains, completely surrounded by the park, rise up majestically from the Chihuahuan Desert floor,\" Winckler celebrates the dramatic expanses of untouched prairie, the crown jewels of prairie reconstruction and restoration, and the neglected remnants that deserve to be treasured.
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The Volcano Adventure Guide
The Volcano Adventure Guide is the first book of its type. It contains vital information for anyone wishing to visit, explore, and photograph active volcanoes safely and enjoyably. Following an introduction that discusses eruption styles of different types of volcanoes, how to prepare for a volcano trip, and how to avoid volcanic dangers, the book presents guides to visiting 42 different volcanoes around the world. This section is packed full of practical information including tour itineraries, maps, transportation details, and warnings of possible non-volcanic dangers. Three appendices at the end of the book direct the reader to a wealth of further volcano resources. Aimed at non-specialist readers who wish to explore volcanoes without being foolhardy, it will fascinate amateur enthusiasts and professional volcanologists alike. The stunning colour photographs throughout the book will delight armchair travellers as well as inspire the adventurous to get out and explore volcanoes for themselves.
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Field guides for excursions to the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano and to the Romeral Fault System , in the frame of the Neotectonics of arc-continent collision concepts
Central Cordillera of Colombia near to the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, is a seismically active area above the subducting slab of the Nazca plate and deforming upper crust of the Andes. Buildings in the region require strengthening against the effects of both types of hazards: earthquakes and volcanoes. During these trips, we will discuss the 13 November, 1985, Nevado del Ruiz Volcano eruption that destroyed the Armero city with about 22,000 deceases, as well the 25 January, 1999, Armenia earthquake (M 6.2) that killed about 2000 people and injured 4000 largely as the result of older, poorly constructed buildings. The economic impact of the quake on the region was significant with about 8000 coffee farms either completely or partially destroyed and over 13,000 structures either partially damaged or completely destroyed. Both phenomena are associated to a large-transversal structure termed Caldas tear, which is controlling strong motion earthquakes and the Quaternary volcanism of the northern Andes.
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The Rough Guide to Panama
\"The Rough Guide to Panama is the ultimate travel guide to this vibrant and fascinating country. Discover Panama's highlights with stunning full-colour photography and maps and more listings and information than ever before. Inside The Rough Guide to Panama you'll find detailed practical advice on what to see and do -- from a boat trip up the Panama Canal to a jungle trek in the Darien, from sightseeing in Panama City to beach-lazing in Guna Yala -- as well as up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants, across every price range, that give you clear, balanced reviews and reliable, first-hand opinions. Whether you have time to browse our detailed chapters, or need fast-fix itineraries and hand-picked highlights, The Rough Guide to Panama will help you make the most of your time.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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