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The crisis of the rainforest began a century ago when it was
discovered to be a source of rubber. This brought commercial
interests into collision with this complex ecology - its plants,
its animals and its peoples. At the height of the rubber boom in
the early years of this century, a young American, John Yungjohan,
struggled for survival as a rubber cutter. The diaries he kept have
recently come to light and have been edited by Sir Ghillean Prance
of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, England, one of the foremost
botanical gardens in the world. Dr. Prance is a leading expert on
the rainforest. The diaries are especially poignant now since the
rubber cutters are fighting to preserve something of the original
forest against the ravages of the indiscriminate destruction which
still ignores the true wealth of the region - its almost
incomprehensible variety of species. It is a tale of humanity and
the natural order working together in the midst of greed and
ignorance. Ghillean Prance enhances the text with his own
contemporary photographs and identifies the fungi, plants and
animals which are mentioned in the pages of the diaries.
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