In the rainforest Catherine Caufield.
Detalles de publicación: Chicago University of Chicago Press 1986, c1984.Descripción: ix, 304 p. map 21 cmISBN:- 0226097862 (pbk.)
- 574.5/2642 19
- QH541.5.R27 C38 1986
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In the Rainforest takes us to Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, revealing a colorful and bizarre world where fish live on fruit, spiders prey on birds, and violets grow to the size of apple trees.
"I recommend In the Rainforest as scientific journalism at its best, and [Caufield's] book as the one to read to become informed about the tropical crisis. Caufield traveled the world, went to the difficult places, sometimes beautiful and often dispiriting, mastered the important ideas, and talked to an impressive number of people on all sides of the issues. . . . There are villains in abundance: corrupt government agents who aid in the destruction of native tribes, greedy caballero landowners, and even the governmental planners who with the best of intentions rush heedlessly toward the environmental degradation of their own countries."--E. O. Wilson, Science
"The whole book is filled with amazing facts. . . . Moving and informative."--Ellen W. Chu, New York Times Book Review
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 281-285.
Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics
- Acknowledgments
- Rainforests of the World
- 1 A Town in Brazil
- 2 In the Beginning
- 3 Layers
- 4 Boundless Fertility
- 5 Living in the Forest
- 6 Cattle in the Clouds
- 7 The Harvest
- 8 The End of the Road
- 9 Partners in Trade
- 10 Trees for the Wood
- 11 Pioneers
- 12 Fever Bark
- 13 Fruits of the Earth
- 14 The Flooded Forest
- 15 That Ancient Flame
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Afterword
- Index