Books on Bocas del Toro, Panama

Books on Bocas del Toro

Here is a selection of books about Panama in general and Bocas del Toro in particular. The links will take you to the Amazon page for that book, which will give a description of the book, and ordering information for any of the books


Panama Guide Books

Panama (Lonely Planet Regional Guides)

Panama and Costa Rica (Rough Guide Map)

Panama (Bradt Travel Guides) Sarah Woods

Panama (Moon Handbooks)

Choose Panama...the perfect retirement haven, William Hutchings

Panama in Pictures (Visual Geography.) Thomas Streissguth

Living and Investing in Panama Christopher Howard

 

Novels and Short Stories
Memories of a Bocatorian Creole, Carlos Reid

 

History
Bananeros in Central America, Clyde Stevens, 1989, Press Printin Co.

History of Hospital Point, Clyde Stevens, 1997, Leesburg Printing Co.

A Panama Forest and Shore: Natural History and Amerindian Culture in Bocas De Toro, Burton L. Gordon, Boxwood Press Hardcover - April 1983

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (Vintage Classics) Graham Greene

The Path Between Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by Mccullough

Building of the Panama Canal: In Historic Photographs Ulrich Keller (Editor)

Operation Just Cause: Lessons for Operations Other Than War Jennifer M Taw

The Panama Canal (Great Building Feats) Lesley A. DuTemple

The Darien Disaster John Prebble

Emperors in the Jungle John Lindsay-Poland

The Silver Men: West Indian Labour Migration to Panama,1850-1914 Velma Newton

Panama, 1989-90 (Elite) G. Rothman

 

Architecture

Caribbean Architecture (Puerto Limon, Bocas del Toro), Arq. Samuel Gutierrez, 1991, Author edition

 

Social
Ecological and social agenda for Bocas del Toro, Stanley Heckadon, 1993, Author edition

Prophetic movement in the Panama's Ngobe (Guaymi), Francoise Sinclair, 1987, Panama University

Mola Designs: 45 Authentic Indian Designs from Panama F.W. Shaffer

Magnificent Molas: The Art of the Kunas Indians Michael Perrin

 

Ecology
Ecological and social agenda for Bocas del Toro, Stanley Heckadon, 1993, Author edition

A Guide to the Birds of Panama: With Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras Robert S. Ridgely, John A. Gwynne

Wildlife (Panama Field Guides) M. Wainwright, J. Brown, A. Suarez

Panama Field Guides: Birds R Dean

Mammals of the Neotropics: The Northern Neotropics - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana v. 1 John F. Eisenberg

 

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