{"product_id":"the-maximum-of-wilderness-the-jungle-in-the-american-imagination-9780813932286","title":"The Maximum of Wilderness: The Jungle in the American Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kelly Enright\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanger in the Congo! The unexplored Amazon!\u003c\/i\u003e Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently as a fragile system requiring our protection, the tropical forest captivated America for over a century. In \u003ci\u003eThe Maximum of Wilderness, \u003c\/i\u003e Kelly Enright traces the representation of tropical forests--what Americans have typically thought of as \"jungles\"--and their place in both our perception of \"wildness\" and the globalization of the environmental movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early twentieth century, jungle adventure--as depicted by countless books and films, from Burroughs's Tarzan novels to \u003ci\u003eKing Kong\u003c\/i\u003e--had enormous mass appeal. Concurrent with the proliferation of a popular image of the jungle that masked many of its truths was the work of American naturalists who sought to represent an \"authentic\" view of tropical nature through museums, zoological and botanical gardens, books, and film. Enright examines the relationship between popular and scientific representations of the forest through the lives and work of Martin and Osa Johnson (who with films such as \u003ci\u003eCongorilla\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSimba\u003c\/i\u003e blended authenticity with adventure), as well as renowned naturalists John Muir, William Beebe, David Fairchild, and Richard Evans Schultes. The author goes on to explore a startling shift at midcentury in the perception of the tropical forest--from the \"jungle,\" a place that endangers human life, to the \"rain forest,\" a place that is itself endangered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47577139806359,"sku":"9780813932286","price":3130.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813932286.webp?v=1774902650","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-maximum-of-wilderness-the-jungle-in-the-american-imagination-9780813932286","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}