...Charles G. Hamilton Jungle Quest. A Search for the Last of the Mayas . By Rittlinger Herbert . London , 1962 . Odhams Press Limited . Maps. Illustrations. Index . Pp. 254 . 25s . Originally published in Germany by F. A. Brockhaus under the title Ins Land der Lacandonen...

...Maynard Geiger, O. F. M. Crusaders of the Jungle . By Rippy J. Fred and Nelson Jean Thomas . Illustrated by Physioc Willis . ( Chapel Hill , The University of North Carolina Press . [ 1936 ]. Pp. x , 401 . Map. $3.50 .) Copyright 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 ...

...Flávio Limoncic Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City . By Grandin Greg . New York : Metropolitan Books , 2009 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Index. xii , 416 pp. Cloth , $27.50 . Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The ideas...

...Emily Wakild Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Politics, and the Making of the Pill . By Laveaga Gabriela Soto . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 331 pp. Cloth , $84.95 . Paper , $23.95...

...Peter Szok Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama . By Lindsay-Poland John . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham : Duke University Press , 2003 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. x, 265 pp. Paper , $18.95...

...Barbara Edmonson Massacres in the Jungle: Ixcán, Guatemala, 1975-1982. By Falla Ricardo . Translated by Howland Julia . Boulder : Westview Press , 1994 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography . xvi , 215 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Paper , $16.95 . Copyright 1995...

... novelist of Mexican life and customs best known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and his “jungle cycle” novels, is a unique and very interesting hybrid. Part biography of a writer and his books, part history of postrevolutionary Mexico, its sum is greater than its parts. Zogbaum demonstrates how...

... the title page. Students of medical history will be interested in Andrade’s opinion that yellow fever, in the form of “jungle yellow fever,” existed endemically throughout parts of Latin America and Africa in remote pre-Columbian times. “Jungle yellow fever” ( febre amarella silvestre) , which...

... this volume of the Coleccion Tierra Firme pictures the conquistador in the New World and at the Spanish court. An eight-months voyage in a clumsy boat, down an unknown river, through a jungle filled with hostile Indians, forms the theme of part one; a two-years struggle against the indifference of a monarch...

... until the next chapter. This, of course, is one of the drawbacks of reading out-of-the-way titles, that such reading is at best uncertain and one is often stranded for three or four chapters at a time.” The author, however, solves this dilemma by labeling as jungle everything green, thick...

... in the Peruvian jungle are shown to be linked to broader historical processes such as the Spanish conquest, the cold war (including the Cuban Revolution’s influence on leftist politics in South America and the United States’ involvement in counterinsurgency efforts), and the ongoing expropriation of native...

... is this classical jungle scenery, where the eye is constantly delighted by a gorgeous profusion of orchids, where packs of monkeys go swinging from tree to tree, where parrots dispute raucously on low-hanging branches and where the jaguar, haughty but keeping a respectful distance, steps forth from the tangle...

... not appear in the bibliography. Teel uses his original interview with Andrew St. George's wife Jean but does not cite from any of St. George's papers at Yale. He comments heavily on Robert Taber's film Rebels of the Sierra Maestra: The Story of Cuba's Jungle Fighters but only cites an excerpt from...

.... Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxx, 183 pp. Paper , $55.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 In this book, Brian Bauer and colleagues chronicle the changing fortunes and significance of Vilcabamba, a jungle region located just 100 kilometers to the northwest...

... through the pursuit of aviation. Although Peru suffered from poor infrastructure, scant resources, dearth of technological expertise, and mountainous and jungle terrain, Peruvian elites and masses came to understand what the airplane represented in the modern world. The author defines modernity...

... was defined by the number of laborers working in the jungle. The rubber barons kept the Indians working through the classic mechanisms of debt peonage, even selling or buying Indians. Ascensión Martínez Riaza’s chapter deals with the failed attempt of the Spanish Crown to mediate the conflict over Amazon...

..., whose “recuperation” and “rehabilitation,” Loaiza Beltrán believed, would be more difficult. New state-run schools were supposed to rescue lowland Indigenous people from the jungle, hacendados, and foreign missionaries and create a new Indigenous person endowed with rights, skills, and national...

... vital maps of Ayacucho, its Sello de Oro jungle area, and Puno. Fourth, there is an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of some 500 of the most important writings on Peru and Shining Path. Fifth, one finds consistency of the highest quality across the contributed essays, always a challenge requiring...

... of these areas. 5 By the 1960s, the Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) began employing a radical form of aviation-based colonization. To secure strategic areas, the air force would come by air first rather than ground, bombing the jungle with napalm to clear vegetation and then dropping...

... and Jungle Yellow Fever: A New Public Health Project in Colombia (New York: RF, 1935); this was originally a lecture given to the Faculty of Medicine in Bogotá, Apr. 3, 1935. 25 H. R. Carter, Member of Yellow Fever Commission, to General William C. Gorgas, Chairman, Barranquilla, Aug. 6, 1916, RAC...