Representations of tropical forests and tropical forest-dwellers in travel accounts of National Geographic

Environmental Values

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 505-525

  Nygren, Anja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Images; Representations; Travel writings; Tropical forests; Tropical peoples

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; IMAGE; PERCEPTION; RAINFOREST; SENSE OF PLACE; TROPICAL FOREST;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751520040     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096327106779116140     Document Type: Article

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