Environmental historian Richard Grove discusses his book, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860, an account of environmentalism with special reference to islands as metaphors of Western thought.
At the time of this interview, Grove was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1995-96) and research associate at the Australian National University and coordinator of the Global Environmental History Unit at the University of Cambridge.
This episode of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
