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White Gold Current edition: The Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1906 - 1916 - Softcover

Yungjohann, John C.

 
9780907791164: White Gold Current edition: The Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1906 - 1916
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0907791166 ISBN 13: 9780907791164
Verlag: Synergetic Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

White Gold: The Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1896 – 1906, is a tale of humanity and the natural order working together in the midst of greed and ignorance. The crisis of the Amazon rainforest began more than a century ago when prospectors discovered the region was a rich source for rubber. This brought commercial interests into collision with the Amazon’s complex ecology―its plants, animals, and people. At the height of the rubber boom in the beginning of the 20th century, a young American, John Yungjohann, went to seek his fortune as a rubber cutter in Brazil, only to find himself struggling for survival. White Gold‘s editor, Sir Ghillean Prance, leading expert of the rainforest and former director (emeritus) of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, England, has enhanced Yungjohann’s text with his own contemporary photographs and identified the fungi, plants and animals mentioned in the pages of the diary. Yungjohann’s words are especially poignant today as an onslaught of extractivist policies threaten the Amazon and rain destruction upon the region, its incomprehensible biodiversity, and the peoples to which it is home.

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Verlag
Synergetic Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0907791166
ISBN 13 
9780907791164
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
114
Herausgeber
Prance Sir Ghillean T.
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