Tepui / Heliamphora: Books and maps of Venezuela

[chimanta]

Hello all

When I was visiting Venezuela, I have bougth among other books, the book "A Guide to the Gran Sabana" written by Roberto Marrero. It' is availbale from a book shop in Caracas, Venezuela (It's the book with the stone "quebrada de jaspe" on the front cover). It's written in english and spanish wit a lot of pictures and describing the road with sigthseeing spots in the Gran Sabana all down to St. Elena Kilometer by Kilometer. If you are planning to go there, I can highly recommend this book.

Roberto Marrero has made also maps of the Tepuis of the Gran Sabana. It's not a map with exact locations in Miles/kilometres but all or the most Tepuis are drawn in on the map. There is always a confusion about Tepui names, since some of them have the same name (e.g. Uey Tepui or Wey Tepuy - there are several Tepuis with the same name and also are called different for example Uey Tepui or cerro do sol) for this it's a good map if you want to visit Venezuela.

There is also a map from a canadian company which is very good in detail, but concerning the Tepuis, only the major ones are named on it. But I would recommend this map to any of you planning to visit "La Gran Sabana" also. This map is availabe by amazon.com

Venezuela Map (Travel Reference Map) by Treaty Oak and International Travel Maps (Map - Jan 1, 2000)
Buy new: $10.95
Venezuela map by International Trvel Maps Canada:
www.amazon.com/Venezuela-Map-Travel-Reference/dp/0921463596/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-7375194-0946362?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191833246&sr=8-2


maps of Roberto Marrero:

Los mapas y libros de Roberto Marrero se pueden conseguir en las librerías TECNI-CIENCIAS LIBROS, en todos los C.C. SAMBIL del país.
El distribuidor de estos mapas es PRECOTUR.
Teléfono: 0212-2386162

Book of Robert Marrero:

Uno de los libros llamado La Guía Todtmann de la Gran Sabana se consiguen en la Librería Alemana del C.C. El Bosque, Av. Libertador al lado de la Estación de Bomberos (la encargada es la Sta. Cristiani)
Teléfono: 0212-7625244.

The homepage of Roberto Marrero
www.mystictours.com.ve/es/publicaciones.htm

I have ordered books form Librerria Alemana also to Switzerland a few years back an I guess they still will send books abroad. I have not checked the phone numbers for the companys who deliver the map and book of Roberto Marreo, but the informations above I have found on Roberto Marreros homepage.
www.mystictours.com.ve/es/publicaciones.htm

Last but not least, there are (until now) 2 maps of Adrian Warren from Britain.

www.lastrefuge.co.uk
see publications and maps


I have seen the thread of Barry Rice with his maps and thougth, perhaps those informations may be of help for you.

Chimata

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[ICPS-bob]

If you want a 3-D perspective, play with Google Earth.
earth.google.com/

[BarryRice]

Hey Chimanta,

Thanks. These are great leads.

Barry

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google earth is an awesome program to use...i use it to figure out how to get places or where things are on cmapuses when i need to go to a school...like alst year my friend was at uc riverside and she told me to go to the big red building with the white tiles and i was able to use google eart to figure out where it was......i think it was red building with white tiles...lol