A Bittersweet Tale
The discovery and conquest of the New World profoundly altered ecological and human balances. Such alterations had been occurring for ...
SAVIORS AND SCOURAGE OF NATIVE PEOPLES
THE SPECTACULAR RISE IN THE POPULATION spectacular decline in the population of Native Americans. and disease and exploitation do not ...
Open Wounds
The steam railway I rode out of Lima, zig-zagged up the steep western slopes of the Andes and stopped at ...
The Shrinking Forest
When Christopher Columbus first saw the island of Hispaniola, he was awed by its lavishly wood mountains. All are most ...
The Last (Guaranteed Absolutely Last) Frontier
While environmentalist agonize over the burning of the Amazon, another, even more remote region of South America confronts greater immediate ...
The Conquest of Nature, 1942-1992
BEFORE COLUMBUS, AMERICA WAS A LAND of dense ancient forests covering coast and moun- tain alike, which included thousands of ...
