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The ragged edge of the world [electronic resource] : encounters at the frontier where modernity, wildlands, and indigenous peoples meet / Eugene Linden.
Author
Linden, Eugene
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Language
English
Εdition
Kindle ed.
Published/Created
New York : Viking, c2011.
Description
1 electronic book (273 p.)
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Indigenous peoples
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Social conditions
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Ethnoecology
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Indigenous peoples
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First contact (Anthropology)
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Summary note
"A pioneering work of environmental journalism that vividly depicts the people, animals and landscapes on the front lines of change's inexorable march. A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest facing the first incursion of humans-how can we even begin to assess the cost of losing so much of our natural and cultural legacy? For forty years, environmental journalist and author Eugene Linden has traveled to the very sites where tradition, wildlands and the various forces of modernity collide. In The Ragged Edge of the World, he takes us from pygmy forests to the Antarctic to the world's most pristine rainforest in the Congo to tell the story of the harm taking place-and the successful preservation efforts-in the world's last wild places. The Ragged Edge of the World is a critical favorite, and was an editors' pick on Oprah.com."
Notes
Includes index.
Sold by: Penguin Publishing
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Contents
Vietnam 1994
An elusive butterfly in Borneo
New Guinea: the godsend of Cargo
New Guinea redux
Polynesia lost and found
Rapa Nui: the other side of the story
Bangui, Bayanga and Bouar
Equateur devolving
Travels with Jane
Listening to pygmies
Unfreezing time
The Arctic
The wolf at the door
The lost worlds of Cuba
Midway
In the forests it's good to be a pygmy
Shamans, healers and experiences I can't explain
Esotéricas.
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