Vanishing Paradise: The Tropical Rainforest - Hardcover

Dalton, Stephen; Bernard, George; Mitchell, Andrew

9780879514068: Vanishing Paradise: The Tropical Rainforest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087951406X ISBN 13: 9780879514068

Publisher: Overlook Books, 1990

This collection of photographs of the rainforests shows the contrast between the vitality of the living forest and the spaces left after human exploitations of its resources. The book exposes the danger they face as man continues to destroy the forests at a rate of 50 hectares per minute.

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From Publishers Weekly:

With dramatic, tantalizing images, this book discloses the unique character of tropical rain forests. In the accompanying text, zoologist Mitchell ( A Fragile Paradise ) evokes the teeming atmosphere of the rain forest and its myriad life forms, describing adaptations of forest dwellers in reproduction, camouflage and movement (the Jesus Christ lizard walks on water). Portraying the rain forest as an exotic, complex and beautiful world now threatened with destruction, Mitchell also names organizations active in rain forest conservation. While text and the 200 color pictures are not interdependent, photographers and author nevertheless provide a wondrous tour from forest floor to canopy. Author tour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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