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by Kelly Enright| 2012| 2.8| English

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and “Danger in the Congo! The unexplored Amazon! and ” Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently as a fragile system requiring our protection, the tropical forest captivated America for over a century. In and “The Maximum of Wilderness, and ” Kelly Enright traces the representation of tropical forests–what Americans have typically thought of as and “jungles and “–and their place in both our perception of and “wildness and ” and the globalization of the environmental movement.In the early twentieth century, jungle adventure–as depicted by countless books and films, from Burroughs’s Tarzan novels to and “King Kong and “–had enormous mass appeal. Concurrent with the proliferation of a popular image of the jungle that masked many of its truths was the work of American naturalists who sought to represent an and “authentic and ” view of tropical nature through museums, zoological and botanical gardens, books, and film. Enright examines the relationship between popular and scientific representations of the forest through the lives and work of Martin and Osa Johnson (who with films such as and “Congorilla and ” and and “Simba and ” blended authenticity with adventure), as well as renowned naturalists John Muir, William Beebe, David Fairchild, and Richard Evans Schultes. The author goes on to explore a startling shift at midcentury in the perception of the tropical forest–from the and “jungle, and ” a place that endangers human life, to the and “rain forest, and ” a place that is itself endangered.

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Author:Kelly Enright
Publication Year:2012
ISBN:9780813932286
Language:English
File Size:2.8
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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