Entangled edens : visions of the Amazon / Candace Slater.
Entangled edens : visions of the Amazon / Candace Slater.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
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N981/32
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English
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Physical content
332 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Meeting of the Waters -- 2. El Dorado and the Golden Legacy -- 3. The Encante as a World in Motion -- 4. Warrior Women, Virgin Forests, and Green Hells -- 5. Gold as a Woman -- 6. Roots of the Rain Forest -- 7. Lakes within Lakes -- 8. Beyond Eden.
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c2002.
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"In this book, Slater draws on her fifteen years of experience collecting stories and oral histories in the Amazon among many different groups of people. Throughout Entangled Edens, the voices of contemporary Amazonians mingle with analyses of such writers as Claude Levi-Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt, and nineteenth-century naturalist Henry Walter Ba...
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Entangled edens : visions of the Amazon / Candace Slater.
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Includes index.
Bibliography, p. 281-311.
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c2002.
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N981/32
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74VvBQNQLJR3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvBQNQLJR3
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ISBN
0520226429 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520226418 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520226410 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520226425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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981
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991016535229702626
