Space in the tropics : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana / Peter Redfield.
Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1597349089 9781597349086 9780520923423 0520923421 9780520219847 0520219848 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |