The Color of Distance

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Earth’s rain forests are infinitely more complex, mysterious, and wonderful than anything in this book, and they really exist. Here are some of my favorite books on tropical rain forests and the people who live in them:

Tropical Nature, Adrian Forsyth and Ken Miyata. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984.

Life Above the Jungle Floor, Donald Perry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

The Tropical Rain Forest, Marius Jacobs. New York: Springer Verlag, 1988.

Tales oja Shaman’s Apprentice, Mark J. Plotkin. New York: Viking Penguin, 1993.

Into the Heart, Kenneth Good with David Chanoff. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Wonderful as they are, Earth’s rain forests are disappearing with amazing and tragic speed. For more information on how to help save the rain forests and the people who live in them, contact these organizations:

Rainforest Action Network

450 Sansome Street, Suite 700

San Francisco, CA 94111

Internet: RAN-INFO@IGC.APC.ORG

Worldwide Web page: URL-HTTP://WWWRAN.ORG/RAN/

World Wildlife Fund

1250 Twenty-fourth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20037

Cultural Survival 46 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138