The Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier.

By Mac Margolis

Over a century after the wilderness frontiers vanished in Europe, Russia, and North America, a drama with fascinating human and ecological repercussions is taking shape in Brazil, as that country pursues its own version of Manifest Destiny in the last habitable frontier on earth: the vast, forbidding and fragile rain forests of the Amazon basin.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393033791
• ISBN13: 9780393033793
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.5"