Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber

by Shawn Miller

For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber.

The forests have always been Brazil's most striking natural resource, and the Portuguese colonists anticipated enormous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804733961
• ISBN13: 9780804733960
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"