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"Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Amazon rain forest ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit the world's largest tropical rain forest stretching across eight countries in South America. Simple graphs show how much the rain forest has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it"--Provided by publisher

chapter 1 Requiem for the Amazon rubber boom -- chapter 2 This substance called rubber: Hevea and its relations -- chapter 3 Anthropological rubber in the Amazon -- chapter 4 Postcards from El Dorado: An overview of historical accounts of the rubber industry -- chapter 5 Embedded tropes and the shift of time -- chapter 6 Failure as a stage of modernization: Part 1: narratives of failure -- chapter 7 Failure as a stage of modernization: part 2: modernity redux, the failure of Fordlandia -- chapter 8 After the wild frontier -- chapter 9 The melancholy and the modern -- chapter 10 Rubber in London -- chapter 11 Concluding comments.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Where Titans Meet -- Chapter 2. Reinventing Pristine Nature -- Chapter 3. Jungle Cowboys -- Chapter 4. Pillars of Life -- Chapter 5. A Banquet of Wild Fruits -- Chapter 6. In the Shadow of the Forest -- Chapter 7. Chainsaw Orgy -- Chapter 8. Fishing and Plants in the River -- Chapter 9. The Hunt between Land and Water -- Chapter 10. Misty Dawn -- APPENDIX 1. Common and Scientific Names of Plants -- APPENDIX 2. Common and Scientific Names of Animals -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index