The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides Da Cunha

基本信息出版社:University of Chicago Press (2013年2月21日)精装:600页语种：英语ISBN:0226322815条形码:9780226322810ASIN:0226322815商品描述媒体推荐"Hecht's wonderfully ambitious book unveils an unknown chapter in the history of the Amazon - indeed, the history of the world. It would be important if it merely showed how da Cunha, almost unknown to Americans but one of Latin America's greatest writers, was also a significant figure in political and environmental history. But it uses da Cunha and his unfinished masterwork to show how Amazonia played a central role in global politics a century before rock stars began staging 'save the rain forest' concerts. As a bonus to readers, her translations of da Cunha's brilliant Amazonian writings are excellent, and the sadly moving love story at the center of his life - key to understanding his work - is artfully woven into the rest of the material." (Charles C. Mann, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus)"作者简介Susanna B. Hecht is professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coauthor, with Alexander Cockburn, of The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon.