A History of Botanical Exploration in Amazonian Ecuador, 1739-1988
Author: Susanne Renner
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9780783751665
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Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9780783751665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Norman Earl Whitten (Jr.)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0252077970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The wellspring of critical analysis in this book emerges from the major Indigenous Uprising of 1990 and its ongoing aftermath in which indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian action transformed the nation-state and established new dimensions of human relationships. The authors weave anthropological theory with longitudinal Ecuadorian ethnography to produce a unique contribution to Latin American Studies.
Author: Elisabeth B. Davis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1995-12-15
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0313078092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Works cited in this useful survey are appropriate for students, librarians, and amateur and professional botanists. These encompass the plant kingdom in all its divisions and aspects, except those of agriculture, horticulture, and gardening. The majority of the annotations are for currently available in-print or electronic reference works. A comprehensive author/title and a separate subject index make locating specific entries simple. With materials ranging from those selected for the informed layperson to those for the specialist, this new edition reflects the momentous transition from print to electronic information resources. It is an appropriate purchase for public, college, university, and professional libraries.
Author: Grady L. Webster
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-04-26
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0520915933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on work spanning a decade, this study of the Maquipucuna area on the western slopes of the Andes discusses the climate, vegetation, ecological relationships, and flora, and emphasizes the importance of the Maquipucuna area as a biological reserve. In addition to the checklist of the flora, which enumerates 1,650 species (including 228 species of pteridophytes and over 200 species of orchids), appendices give information on floristic composition of communities, distribution of epiphytes, and elevational ranges of families and genera. The illustrations include a map, landscapes, and characteristic species.
Author: Susanna B. Hecht
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 0226322815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geographer, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the world’s most valuable, dangerous, and little-known landscapes. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism he named the Lost Paradise. Da Cunha intended his epic to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, but, as Susanna B. Hecht recounts, he never completed it—his wife’s lover shot him dead upon his return. At once the biography of an extraordinary writer, a masterly chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, and a superb translation of the remaining pieces of da Cunha’s project, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.
Author: Ulrich Lüttge
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 303112782X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. This latest volume includes reviews on plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics, forests, and ecosystems.
Author: Damian Hughes
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-08-10
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9811925151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939.
Author: Smithsonian Institution
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13:
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