Ecuador
• Ecuador. APA Publications, 1991.

Amazonia
• Tropical Nature. Forsyth, Adrian; Miyata, Ken. Macmillan, 1984. The best introductory book for the layman.
• A Neotropical Companion. Kricher, Jhon C. Princenton University Press, 1989.
• Key Environment Amazonia. Prance, G.; Lovejoy, T.,Ed., Pergamon Press, 1985. Excellent book; quite technical.

Anthropology
• The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle, Descola, Philippe. The New Press, 1996. Currently the BEST BOOK about the Achuar.
• The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls. Harner, Michael, J. University of California Press Ltd. 1984.
• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Eliade, Mircea. Penguin Books, 1989.

Wildlife Guides
• Birds of Ecuador. Ridgely, Robert S.; Paul J. Greenfield. Christopher Helm, 2001. 2 vols. Can be found at Amazon.com, the best available field guide to Ecuadorian birds, bring just the field guide volume
• Neotropical Rainforest Mammals. Emmons, Louise H. The University of Chicago Press, 1990.
• A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of the Woody Plants of Northwest South America. Gentry, Alwyn, H. Conservation International, 1993. Excellent field guide. Not for the lay man!