Imagining the tropics: Views and visions of the tropical world

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-17

  Driver, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 16544373110     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0129-7619.2004.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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