White Gold Current edition - Couverture souple

Yungjohann, John C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0907791166 ISBN 13 : 9780907791164

Editeur : Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S., 1989

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

The crisis of the rainforest began a century ago when it was discovered to be a source of rubber. This brought commercial interests into collision with this complex ecology - its plantsits animals and its peoples. At the height of the rubber boom in the early years of this century a young American John Yungjohan struggled for survival as a rubber cutter. The diaries he kept have recently come to light and have been edited by Sir Ghillean Prance of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew England one of the foremost botanical gardens in the world. Dr. Prance is a leading expert on the rainforest. The diaries are especially poignant now since the rubber cutters are fighting to preserve something of the original forest against the ravages of the indiscriminate destruction which still ignores the true wealth of the region - its almost incomprehensible variety of species. It is a tale of humanity and the natural order working together in the midst of greed and ignorance. Ghillean Prance enhances the text with his own contemporary photographs and identifies the fungi plants and animals which are mentioned in the pages of the diaries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0907791166
• ISBN 13: 9780907791164
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Éditeur: Prance Ghillean T
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible