IN THE TROPICS
WHERE WINTER NEVER COMES, by Marston. Bates; Victor Gollancz. English price, 16/-. "HIS is the study of man and nature in the tropics by a Professor of Zoology in the University of Michigan. With a light touch the author sketches the history, geography, and resources of these regions, stopping here and there to present an unorthodox viewpoint, ¢s that "the white man’s burden" in the tropics is not the burden of improving
or governing "the benighted natives," but the burden of his own culture cartried into an alien environment, Bates denies the usual American faith jn technology which, exported to the tropics, is a putting of cart before horse; but he does hold that fundamental science can and should discover how to work with the climatic forces that create the immense forest vegetation, instead of trying to convert the forest into peanut fields and -corn patches, and later deploring the poverty of tropical soils.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 737, 28 August 1953, Page 14
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159IN THE TROPICS New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 737, 28 August 1953, Page 14
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