Entangled Edens Visions of the Amazon

Name: Entangled Edens Visions of the Amazon
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ISBN: 9780520226425

ISBN-10: 0520226429

ISBN-13: 9780520226425

Edition: 2002

Authors: Candace Slater

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Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widely different groups of people--conquistadors, corporate executives, subsistence farmers --over the centuries. A careful, passionate consideration of one of the most powerful environmental icons of our time,Entangled Edensmakes clear that we cannot defend the Amazon's dazzling array of plants and animals without comprehending its equally astonishing human and cultural diversity. Early explorers…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/21/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




The Meeting of the Waters


A Tale of Two Cities



El Dorado and the Golden Legacy



The Encante as a World in Motion


Amazon Women



Warrior Women, Virgin Forests, and Green Hells



Gold as a Woman


The Amazon as Water, the Amazon as Woods



Roots of the Rain Forest



Lakes within Lakes



Beyond Eden


Chronology of Key Dates


Glossary of Selected Terms


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index