Games against Nature
Subtitle: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa (Studies in Environment and History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521343732
Subjects: African history; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Central Africa - History; Ecological Anthropology; History: American; Africa; Congo (Democratic Republic); History / Africa; Human ecology; Nunu (African people)
First sentence: TO AN AIR TRAVELER, the equatorial African rain forest looks like a thick, green carpet that stretches to the horizon and beyond.