Tropic of Capricorn years. In South America, whilst in the continental cratons soils are almost as old as in Australia and Southern Africa, the presence of the geologically young and evolving Andes means that this region is on the western side of the subtropical anticyclones and thus receives warm and humid air from the Atlantic Ocean. As a result, areas in Brazil adjacent to the Tropic are extremely important agricultural regions, producing large quantities of crops such as sugarcane, and the natural rainforest vegetation has been almost entirely cleared, except for a few remaining patches of Atlantic Forest. Further south in Argentina, the
Tropic of Capricorn (novel) finding his voice as a writer, until eventually he sets off for Paris, where the activities depicted in "Tropic of Cancer" begin. Tropic of Capricorn (novel) Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published by Obelisk Press in Paris in 1939. A prequel of sorts to Miller's first published novel, 1934's "Tropic of Cancer", it was banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. During a three-week vacation from Western Union in 1922, Miller wrote his first novel, "Clipped Wings", a study of 12 Western Union