1. P. Gourou, The Tropical World: Its Social and Economic Conditions and its Future Status (London 1953) 141. First published in French in 1947
2. D. Arnold, Illusory riches»: northern representations of the tropical landscape, 1850–1950. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 21 (2000) 6–18, quotation on p. 6.
3. Though, interestingly, R. W. Steel's survey of «Geographers and the Tropics» in R. W. Steel and R. Mansell Prothero (Eds), Geographers and the Tropics: Liverpool Essays (London 1964) 1–29, made only passing reference to Gourou's contributions and insisted that (p. 2) ««there is no special branch of the subject to be recognized as «tropical geography» »».
4. Gourou, Tropical World, 1, 6, 24
5. Derek Gregory, for instance, speaks of the way in which European colonization ««emphasised the virtues, and by implication, the normalization of temperate regimes»». See D. Gregory, Explorations in Critical Human Geography, (The Hettner Lecture for 1997, Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg 1998) 64