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

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
	©2000

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index.
Summary	This title compares the current space programme in French Guiana to the earlier penal colony of Devil's Island, highlighting cultural realignments in nature behind the evolution of global technology in a tropical rainforest.
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Subject	Centre spatial guyanais.
	Centre spatial guyanais.
	Centre spatial guyanais.
	Human geography -- French Guiana -- History.
	Human geography.
	French Guiana.
	History.
	Penal colonies -- French Guiana -- Devil's Island.
	Penal colonies.
	French Guiana -- Devil's Island.
	Human ecology.
	Human ecology.
	Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
	Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Redfield, Peter, 1965- Space in the tropics. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520219848 (DLC) 99056834 (OCoLC)42866153
ISBN	9780520923423 (electronic book)
	0520923421 (electronic book)
	0585389381 (electronic book)
	9780585389387 (electronic book)
	0520219848 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
	9780520219847 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
	0520219856 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
	9780520219854 (paperback ; acid-free paper)