In Search of the Rain Forest

The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan "Save the Rain Forest "--emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots--promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822332183
• ISBN13: 9780822332183
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"