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White Gold
John C. Yungjohann
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Description for White Gold
Paperback. Num Pages: 103 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: JHM; TVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 157 x 7. Weight in Grams: 204.
White Gold tells the story of a young American, John Hungjohann, who struggled for survival as a rubber cutter at the height of the rubber boom in the early years of this century. Editor Sir Ghillean prance, a leading expert on the rainforest, enhances the text with his own contemporary photographs and identifies the fungi, plants and animals mentioned in the pages of the diary. The diaries are especially poignant now since the rubber cutters are fighting to preserve something of the original forest against the ravages of the indiscriminate destruction which still ignores the true wealth of the region ... Read more
White Gold tells the story of a young American, John Hungjohann, who struggled for survival as a rubber cutter at the height of the rubber boom in the early years of this century. Editor Sir Ghillean prance, a leading expert on the rainforest, enhances the text with his own contemporary photographs and identifies the fungi, plants and animals mentioned in the pages of the diary. The diaries are especially poignant now since the rubber cutters are fighting to preserve something of the original forest against the ravages of the indiscriminate destruction which still ignores the true wealth of the region ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
103
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
Weight
204g
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, NM, United States
ISBN
9780907791164
SKU
V9780907791164
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for White Gold
.. .an extremely interesting look at one man's experiences and adventures as a rubber trapper in the Brazilian Amazon during the rubber boom. The same life and death dramas are being played out today throughout the Amazon Valley... Dr. Michael J. Balick Philecology Curator of Economic Botany White Gold
like the Colombian classid La Voragine
sets forth the depravity of ... Read more
like the Colombian classid La Voragine
sets forth the depravity of ... Read more