Description
Product ID: | 9780691048857 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | In Amazonia |
Subtitle: | A Natural History |
Authors: | Author: Hugh Raffles |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Anthropology, Anthropology, The environment, Nature and the natural world: general interest, The environment, Natural history, Amazon river |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Demonstrates that the Amazon is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. This book introduces a diverse range of characters - from sixteenth-century explorers and their native rivals to nineteenth-century naturalists and contemporary ecologists, logging company executives, and river-traders. |
Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2002-10-27 |