The Maximum of Wilderness: The Jungle in the American Imagination
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Likewise, the zoologist William Beebe, sub- to mention its foundational status within the historiogra- ject of the third chapter, made jungle wildlife accessible phy of environmental history. Finally, in chapter 4, En- healing the ills of an overcivilized society.
By tieth century, connoting a new emphasis on biological di- bringing, respectively, tropical fruits and medicines into versity and natural balance. Given the short length Roosevelt on their respective end-of-career journeys of the book pages , however, deeper, archive-based to the Amazon. Explorations and Discov- tropics was equally relevant to the construction of the eries in the Amazon Rain Forest and Carol Grant idea of the jungle within American thought.
Explorer the book does not engage deeply with the large literature and Naturalist Unfortunately, this dichotomy is not If Americans did fashion new conceptions of tropical seriously problematized, in spite of longstanding criti- forests through the course of the twentieth century, we cism. Enright occasionally notes such contradictions, but within the intellectual history of tropical ecology.
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