Recommended Reading- Panama Guide Books and other Panama reads
GUIDE BOOKS
Frommers Panama Guide
This is the latest Panama guide- an excellent guide book written especially for the upscale traveler.
Lonely Planet Panama
A thorough, informative and fun guidebook for all. A must if you are coming to Panama for more than a short business trip.
The Panama Planner
A beautiful 100 page full color Panama travel guide with the most up-to-date travel info and dozens of photos by Panama's best photographers. You can find it for free in nearly every hotel room in Panama and also at Arrocha and Gran Morrison stores for $2.95,
A limited quantity are available at the offices of Panamainfo.com. Minimum purchase: 10 Planners. In Panama City call: (507) 315-0609.
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The Panama Planner can also be downloaded for free at www.thepanamaplanner.com
Living in Panama
A valuable guide to anyone just arriving, relocating for business or a local looking for insider information. Available from the publisher as well as local stores in Panama at $16.95 and at the American Chamber of Commerce.
The Guide to the Birds of Panama, by Robert Ridgely and John Gwynn Jr.
The guide to Panama's amazing bird population-944 recorded bird species, more than the USA and Canada combined.
GOOD PANAMA READS
The Path Between the Seas The Creation of the Panama Canal, by Pulitzer-prize winning historian David McCullough
Reads like an historical novel too good to put down and too incredible to be true, but it all is. It will give you a feel for Panama the country - people, culture, weather, fauna, terrain, politics, history and geological destiny. It is also a moving and at times awesome description of the American know-how that made the impossible dream of the Panama Canal come true.
Don’t Kill The Cow Too Quick, by Malcolm Henderson
This book is a great read for all Panamaphiles. The author manages to catch so much of what we love and what sometimes frustrates us about life in Panama. A readable sometimes hilarious account of the first six years of an Englishman’s experiences living in Bocas del Toro. Taking on the twin projects of building an unconventional house in Bocas town and establishing an organic farm on the shores of a distant lagoon, the author reveals many of the challenges facing ex pats as they settle in Panama.
The Panama Cruising Guide, by Eric Bauhaus/Sailors Publications
This book is written by a young Dutch sea captain who was sailing around the world in his yacht when he happened upon Panama. Like many yacht folks before him, he fell head over heels in love with the incomparably picturesque Atlantic archipelago of San Blas and its 365 perfect islands and colorful Kuna indian villages. Finding Panama a safe, interesting and beautiful yachting destination, he saw the need for a Panama sailing guide Complete with detailed instructions on how to cross the Panama Canal.
Most of the above books are all available on Amazon.com.