BOOKS ON BELIZE

These are the books on our bookshelf.    New.. I have finally become an Amazon Associate, so you can easily add them to your collection by clicking on the title, which links to Amazon!

NEWEST!! Bruce Barcott.  The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

This is a WONDERFUL book!! I got it from my library. The author shares all of the joys and surprises I first experienced when I discovered Belize. He is properly cynical about the corruption he found here, just as I am. I think the book will be good for Belize...probably destined to be a best-seller... and would be wonderful if the new GOB would take it to heart.

Here is a NYT review of the book and here is the first chapter!

Here is Bruce's Website.  REALLY worth a look!!

New.  Here is a review by Lan Sluder,   He thinks it's the best guide to Belize ever written!

Nancy Koerner:  BELIZE SURVIVOR: Darker Side of Paradise

         Nancy's novel is based on her true experiences as a flower child and bride in 80's Belize.

Lan Sluder: Adapter Kit: Belize: A Traveler's Tools for Living Like a Local

Must reading for anyone contemplating moving to Belize.

Lan Sluder: Belize First Guide to Mainland Belize

Lan is the man!  He knows more about Belize than almost any one alive, and he tells you about it here.

Tim Merrill: Guyana and Belize: Country Studies (CIA Area Handbook Series.)

I got this book from the US Publishing Office.  It is 'official' -- full of facts, facts, facts.  

The Rough Guide to Belize 4 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Fodor's Belize 2007 (Fodor's Gold Guides)

Gray, Bill & Claire. Belize Retirement Guide: How to Live in a Tropical Paradise on $450 a Month.

Bill and Claire have been beatin' the drum for Belize for over ten years.  Kinda sugar-coated, but interesting.  It does cost more than $450 now. 

 Inside Belize (Inside Central America)

Ann Sutherland:  The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins

Ann is a social anthropologist who grew up on Ambergris Caye. Now a professior at UC Riverside, she offers many valuable insights into the position of Belize in the world.

James Michener:  Caribbean: A Novel

Michener is one of those things you should do like "eat your spinach."   Not near as much fun as Carl Hiaasen, but he tells you a lot about the people who settled these islands and jungles down here.   

A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya 

Newer.  Free Books on Belize.  Lan Sluder has written a couple of -books and you can download them here. 

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