Bruce Prideaux (Ed): Rainforest Tourism, ConservationandManagement.ChallengesforSustainableDevelopmentOxford: Routledge, 2014, (ISBN 978-0-415-63582-0) $145.00(hardback), 321 pagesRobert Fletcher, Romancing th e Wild. Cultural Dimensionsof Ecotourism.Durham:DukeUniversityPress2014.ISBN978-0-8223-5583-0,$89.95 (paperback). 248 pagesThese two books take very different approaches to a similarset of topics, providing a study in academic contrasts.Prideaux’s edited volume does not say it is about ecotourism,but in practice it is. Fletcher’s monograph says it is aboutecotourism, but in practice it isn’t.Prideaux’s book is a solid collection of well-documentedcases presented in a straightforward and comprehensive way,providing a reference work that readers can use as a baselineforthefuture. The 21chapters comprise contributions from 32authors, most from Australia and the UK, but also from Can-ada, Chile, France, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Qa-tar, Thailand and Uganda, presenting case studies from 12countries including Australia, Madagascar, Peru, Brazil, Gua-temala, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Guyana, Malay-sia,UgandaandIndonesia.Tropical,subtropicalandcooltem-peraterainforestsareallincluded,thoughnonearecoveredinageographically comprehensive way. The sites and issues ad-dressed are summarized in an introductory table (pp.23–25).The volume is organised into four parts. The first in-troduces the topic of tourism in rainforest regions. Thesecond sets out potential threats from climate change inAustralia and forest clearance in Madagascar. Additionalthreats – e.g., from invasive species – are also coveredin later chapters. Part three presents 10 case studies ofsmall-scale commercial tourism products, most includinglocal communities. Some of these cases are well known,such as Tambopata in Peru; others, such as Grace Gaigu’sreport on Ulumani Lodge in Milne Bay, PNG, presentnew research. Part four provides case studies specificallyincluding wildlife: birdwatching in the Arfak Mountains ofWest Papua, primates in Uganda, and seven threatenedspecies in Borneo. There is also a chapter on feral pigs,although, since these are a conservation threat rather thana tourist attraction, it might perhaps more logically havebeen included in part two.The key theme in many of the chapters is that differentstakeholders may have very different perspectives on appro-priateusesofnaturalresources.InMadagascar,localresidentstraditionally relied on the forests for subsistence and wantcontinued access, whereas conservation NGOs are concernedabout large-scale industrial or illegal logging and wildlifehunting(p.94).Thereareanalogousdifferencesinstakeholderperspectives in southern Chile (p.137). At Waluma in PNG(p.209), whilst academics may lobby for bottom-up commu-nity-owned approaches, local communities themselves seethis as a recipe for failure. The second PNG case study, incontrast, shows how a small private lodge has survivedthrough highly valued specialist attractions, such as eclectusparrots, and good local connections. As with many editedvolumes, the contributing authors take different approaches,but here the most frequent focus is on community-based eco-tourism, and perhaps this is the main strength of the book.