Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Nancy Leys Stepan critically examines this construct, in order to remedy the persistent ...
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Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Nancy Leys Stepan critically examines this construct, in order to remedy the persistent historic misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples