In the Rainforest: Report from a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World
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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
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226097862
ISBN13:9780226097862
Release Date:July 1991
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:319 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
On the whole, an engrossing book about rainforests all over the world. In fact, more about Indonesia perhaps than South America. Full of an amazing assortment of facts and figures and statistics on all sorts of things. Rather mind-boggling research must have gone into the writing of this book. Lots of good history of the exploration and exploitation of rainforests. Always, always economics and money are the cause of actions. Rarely just plain common good. Natives always at short end of stick. But she makes a compelling case for preserving what we have just because we don't know exactly all, or even what, there is. We are destroying something we really don't understand. That is dangerous, always. For instance, there is a tree whose sap can fuel a diesel truck!
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