With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

by Warren Dean

Book Overview

Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520208862
• ISBN13: 9780520208865
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Great Book!

To read this book is to learn how a colonization exterminated the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Laws, economics process, natives agriculture, how the urbanization burned the forest and fens. Except the first chaptre, about the evolution of the forest by geologic times, all is perfect. I use this book in my class - Geography of Brazil and the students love it. (...)

Impressive environmental history of Brazil

This book is bound to change your view of Brazilian history, and of environmental history. A must read for anyone interested in either. A good Portuguese language translation is available.