Picturing tropical nature
Review: "Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and ecotourism, tropical nature is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs, and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the "tropicalization of nature" can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the region and its peoples."
Art
283 s : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780801438813, 0801438810
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