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Your enjoyment of the trip will be enhanced with knowledge of the area. To encourage you to do some pre-trip reading, here is a selected list of resources. We also have reference books and field guides on board all the boats.

Baja California

• Baja California Plant Field Guide by Norman C. Roberts
• Sea of Cortez Marine Animals by Dan W. Gotshall
• Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California by Ron H. McPeak
• Eye of the Whale by Dick Russell
• The Forgotten Peninsula by Joseph Wood Krutch
• Gathering the Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan
• The Log of the Sea of Cortez by John Steinback
• Field Guide to the Gray Whale by The Oceanic Soceity
• The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins
• A Desert Country Near the Sea by Ann Zwinger
• Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortez by Ted Case & Martin Cody

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Ecuador - Amazon, Galapagos, Cloud Forest

• Tropical Nature by Adrian Forsyth & Ken Miyata
• Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Travelers Wildlife Guide by David Pearson & Les Beletsky
• A Neotropical Companion by John Kricher
• Birds of Ecuador, Vol. I by Paul Greenfield & Robert Ridgely
• Wildlife of the Galapagos by Julian Fitter, Daniel Fitter & David Hosking
• The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
• The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
• The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson
• Ecology of Plants in the Tropics by Daniel Janzen
• Galapagos: A Natural History Guide by Michael Jackson
• The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
• The Cloud Forest by Peter Mattiessen
• Amazon: the Flooded Forest by M. Goulding

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Alaska/British Columbia

General

• Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest by Kathie Durban
• Alaska: A Novel by James Michener
• Travels in Alaska by John Muir
• Journeys Through the Inside Passage by Joe Upton
• The Taking of the Tongass: Alaska's Rainforest by Bill Shoaf
• Sailing with Vancouver by Sam McKinney
• The Alaska Almanac: Facts About Alaska edited by Nancy Gates
• Stikeen by John Muir
• Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage by Jennifer Hahn
• Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen
• Beyond the Whales by Alexandra Morton
• Raincoast Chronicles by Various Authors from Harbour Publishing
• Totem Poles and Tea by Hughina Harold
• The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
• Looking At Totem Poles by Hilary Stewart
• Coming into the Country by John McPhee
• Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska by Daniel Nelson

Nature and Natural History

• North Coast Odyssey: The Inside Passage From Port Hardy to Prince Rupert by Kenneth Campbell
• The Nature of SE Alaska: A Guide to Plants, Animals, and Habitats by Rita N. O'Clair, Robert Armstrong & Richard Carstensen
• Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Jim Pojar & Andy Mackinnon
• British Columbia: A Natural History by Richard Cannings & Sydney Cannings
• Forest Primeval by Chris Maser
• Sasquatch Books Field Guides by Various Authors with Numerous Titles
• Glacier Bay National Park Alaska by Mark Kelley
• Anan: Stream of Living Water by Bonnie Demerjian & Ivan Simonek
• Coming into the Country by John McPhee
• A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Pacific Northwest by Stephen Whitney
• Geology of Southeast Alaska by Harold H. Stowell

Whales

• Orca: The Whale Called Killer by Erich Hoyt
• The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins by Randall Reeves & Stephen Leatherwood
• In the Company of Whales by Alexandra Morton
• Guide to Marine Mammals of the World by National Audubon Society
• Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska by Kate Wynne & Pieter Folkens

Birds

• A Guide to the Birds of Alaska by Robert Armstrong
• National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America by Jon Dunn & Jonathan Alderfer

Bears and Other Wildlife

• Track of the Grizzly by Frank Craighead, Jr.
• Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series by Alaska Department of Fish and Game
• True Grizz by Douglas H. Chadwick

Photography

• Photography and the Creative Life by Nancy Rotenberg
• How to Photograph Close-Ups in Nature by Nancy Rotenberg
• Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography by Brenda Tharp
• Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson
• Capturing the World: Great Southern Lands by Darran Leal

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