Amazon Jungle

University of California Press. NF/F. 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0520226410. A brand new copy in a new Brodart mylar protective sleeve. No remainder mark. Slight bump on one corner. ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 332 pp; Slater asserts that the Amazon should be considered important not just for its wealth of plant and animal life but also for its human diversity. Concerned that to most "the Amazon" connotes only tall trees and parrots, she presents an intricate analysis of the region's people, their lives, and their culture. Fifteen years of fieldwork and personal experience are woven with voices of long-ago explorers (e. G. , Claude Levi-Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Walter Bates) and with current oral histories.. more information

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