Transatlantic topographies : islands, highlands, jungles

Transatlantic topographies : islands, highlands, jungles / Ileana Rodríguez.

Author/creator	Rodríguez, Ileana
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
Description	xix, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Geographical perception--Latin America. Place (Philosophy) Caribbean Area--Description and travel. Central America--Description and travel. Amazon River Region--Description and travel. Latin America--Historiography.

Series	Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 17 Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 17. ^A413273
Contents	Paradise -- Inferno -- Beaches -- Cultural geographies : stories of bloodlust and land -- Banana republics : nineteenth-century geographers and naturalists -- The void -- The Amazon : a modern twentieth-century frontier.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-253) and index.
LCCN	2004006902
ISBN	0816642230 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN	0816642249 (pb : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	F2171.3 .R63 2004	✔ Available	Place Hold