The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan

by Conrad D. Totman

Book Overview

Every foreign traveler in Japan is delighted by the verdant forest-shrouded mountains that thrust skyward from one end of the island chain to the other. The Japanese themselves are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they sometimes refer to as "the green archipelago." Yet, based on its fragile geography and centuries of extremely dense human occupation, Japan today should be an impoverished, slum-ridden, peasant society subsisting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520063120
• ISBN13: 9780520063129
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"