I primarily used two sources of information for this webpage, which i cited in the text.
1 ~ Dean, Warren. Brazil and the struggle for rubber: a study in environmental history.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
2 ~ Webster, C.C. and W.J. Baulkwill. Rubber. England: Longman Group, 1989.
There is a lot of information about rubber out there. I've included some of the websites that i ‘
borrowed’ pictures from, as well as sites that go a bit more in-depth into certain aspects of the
world of rubber. I have links to them all throughout the pages, but in case you missed a few, here
you go. Some are in portuguese, just to warn you. Enjoy ~
Check out Amazonlife, a really cool Brazilian
company that makes an alternative to leather out of rubber. (In Portuguese).
There is also a cool site about making
Treetap®, the really cool leather alternative.
A quick article about the wealth that rubber brought to some of Brazil's elite.
This site (in Portuguese) has more about Mycrocyclus ulei,
as well as other useful info.
More about
the Brazilian Rubber Tapper Movement here.
And more about
rubber history can be found here.