During the second world war he was told to remain in the jungle to look for sources of natural rubber for the United States to replace Asian plantations lost to the Japanese.Mr Schultes sought to travel simply.
Blanche and Stella, heirs to Belle Reve, the family's Mississippi plantation, have lost their inheritance due to male debauchery and illness.
France did not forgive the impertinence and loss of earnings: 800 destroyed sugar plantations, 3,000 lost coffee estates.
Tin mining typically requires land to be bulldozed, then hosed down and dug up, meaning that the fertile topsoil so essential for agriculture and plantations is lost, and acidic soil brought to the surface instead.
His father, Mervyn Ondaatje, was in the Ceylon light infantry and supervised a tea plantation before losing jobs through alcoholism ("My father was in tea and alcohol; he dealt in tea and he drank the alcohol").
A man searched forlornly for a horse he'd illegally left to feed in the cane plantations and then lost.
Comparisons of historical and current topographic maps revealed that land formerly consisting of coastal swamp and forest, mangrove forests, sandy beaches, and rubber and oil plantations have been lost to large-scale land reclamation and urbanisation.
Throughout the 20th century, significant areas of plantation forest were periodically lost to bushfires, with major fires occurring in 1939, 1952, 1979, 1983, 2001 and 2003.
It's a part of their home, which is lost to plantations because of historical exploitation," said Kumar, who has spent a decade working on a system of text messages, television alerts and warning lights that keep track of elephants as the move through the plantations.
Six lives were lost on plantations in the Keys.
