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Exploration Botanique de L'Afrique Occidental Française [...] Tome I.
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Author: EXPLORATION BOTANIQUE DE L'AFRIQUE
Author: AUGUSTE CHEVALIERExploration botanique de l'Afrique Occidentale Française
Author: Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (French botanist)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 798
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Exploration botanique de l'Afrique Occidentale Française
Author: Auguste ChevalierPublisher:
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Category : Flora Afrika (Westen)
Languages : fr
Pages : 798
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Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456623
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 3477
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Geographical Guide to Floras of the World: Africa, Australia, North America, South America, and islands of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans
Author: Sidney Fay BlakePublisher:
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Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Exploration botanique de l'Afrique occidentale Francais
Author: Auguste ChevalierLiterature of Travel and Exploration: G to P
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584245
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa
Author: Vigdis Broch-DuePublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064523
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Drawing on case studies from eight different countries, the con-tributors to this provocative collection of essays demonstrate quite clearly that environmental programmes often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty and that they constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs.
The Arid Lands
Author: Diana K. DavisPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262034522
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book, Diana Davis argues that estimates of desertification have been significantly exaggerated and that deserts and drylands—which constitute about 41% of the earth's landmass—are actually resilient and biodiverse environments in which a great many indigenous people have long lived sustainably. Meanwhile, contemporary arid lands development programs and anti-desertification efforts have met with little success. As Davis explains, these environments are not governed by the equilibrium ecological dynamics that apply in most other regions. Davis shows that our notion of the arid lands as wastelands derives largely from politically motivated Anglo-European colonial assumptions that these regions had been laid waste by “traditional” uses of the land. Unfortunately, such assumptions still frequently inform policy. Drawing on political ecology and environmental history, Davis traces changes in our understanding of deserts, from the benign views of the classical era to Christian associations of the desert with sinful activities to later (neo)colonial assumptions of destruction. She further explains how our thinking about deserts is problematically related to our conceptions of forests and desiccation. Davis concludes that a new understanding of the arid lands as healthy, natural, but variable ecosystems that do not necessarily need improvement or development will facilitate a more sustainable future for the world's magnificent drylands.