Testemunho da natureza social: o homem, espaço e tempo amazônico nas representações geográficas do amazonófilo Leandro Tocantins.

This article aims to analyze the Amazon region through geographic representations contained in the Amazon work: Nature, Man and Time, which presents the history of the area in two stages: the first a period of expeditions in our rivers, described in the works of chroniclers Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. And a second time it emphasizes the regional economy based on forest products. it elucidates how was the discovery of the main vector of wealth that time, rubber, its use by indigenous people and their consecration in the world economy. However, the rubber had its decline and took all the wealth, leaving only the bucolic landscape. Also, we highlight the population occupation, showing key characters in the Amazon social formation. also describes a third Amazonian time showing a new perspective for the region, highlighting the relationship between man and nature guided the ecological bias that gained momentum with social movements and environmentalists, a new vision of the forest space, diverging ambitions or the logic of the world economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]