Transatlantic topographies
Subtitle: islands, highlands, jungles
By: Ileana Rodríguez.
Series: Cultural studies of the Americas ;; v. 17
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Paradise; title: Inferno; title: Beaches; title: Cultural geographies : stories of bloodlust and land; title: Banana republics : nineteenth-century geographers and naturalists; title: The void; title: The Amazon : a modern twentieth-century frontier.