White Gold: The Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1906-1916
Editorial Reviews
Willard Van Adsall, Journal of Ethnobiology
Readers of this journal will find this first hand account fascinating and will appreciate the efforts of a work weary rubber cutter to not only survive the experience but to write about it.
Book Description
The crisis of the rainforest began a century ago when it was discovered to be a source of rubber. This brought commercial interests into collision with this complex ecology- its plants, its animals and its peoples. At the height of the rubber boom in the early years of this century, a young American, John Yungjohann, struggled for survival as a rubber cutter. The diaries he kept were edited by Ghillean Prance of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England, one of the foremost botanical gardens in the world. Dr. Prance is a leading expert on the rain forest. The diaries are especially poignant since the rubber cutters of today are fighting to preserve the forest against the ravages of the indiscriminate destruction which still ignores the true wealth of the region- its almost incomprehensible variety of species. Ghillean Prance enhances the text with his own contemporary photographs and identifies the fungi, plants and animals which are mentioned in the pages of the diaries.
White Gold: The Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1906-1916,Ghillean Jungjohann,Synergetic Press,0907791166,(John Christian),,Agriculture - Agronomy,Amazonas,Biography & Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Brazil,Diaries,General,Hevea,History - General History,Rubber tappers,Yungjohann, John C,Yungjohann, John C.,d.1930,Anthropology,Crop husbandry
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