The Amazonian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys)

Rating:
Summary: Great for the initiated
Review: The book is great if you already have a sound notion of linguistics. Even then, the languages described are so bizarre that some of the grammatical terms and phenomena will be hard to grasp from such a technical, dry work.
But it's a great book anyway. Just to see a cohesive explanation on such little known languages and ever their reconstructed proto-language is quite a trip.