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Space in the tropics : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana / Peter Redfield.

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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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Main Author: Redfield, Peter, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Centre spatial guyanais.
Human geography > French Guiana > History.
Penal colonies > French Guiana > Devil's Island.
Human ecology.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Human geography.
Penal colonies.
French Guiana.
French Guiana > Devil's Island.
History.
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