Space in the Tropics

Spaces in the Tropics compares the current space program in French Guiana to the earlier penal colony of Devil's Island, highlighting cultural realignments in nature behind the evolution of global technology in a tropical rainforest.

Illustrations

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Preface: The Edge of the World

xiii

PART I. ISLANDS AND DISCIPLINES

1

(48)

Robinson Crusoe, Anthropology, and the Horizon of Technology

3

(24)

History on the Wild Coast

27

(22)

PART 2. COLONIAL GROUND

49

(62)

Botany Bay to Devil's Island

51

(25)

The Natural Prison

76

(35)

PART 3. MODERN SKY

111

(74)

A Gate to the Heavens

113

(36)

The Margin of the Future

149

(36)

PART 4. WORLDS IN MOTION

185

(78)

Tropics of Nature

187

(28)

The Nature of Work

215

(30)

The Imperfect Equator

245

(18)

Notes

263

(36)

Bibliography

299

(32)

Credits

331

(2)

Index

333

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