Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia - Paperbackby Stphen Rostain (Author) St phen Rostain's book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of ancient settlement in lowland South America and other tropical zones. Rostain demonstrates that populations were capable of developing intensive raised field agriculture, which supported significant human density, and construct causeways, habitation