The ragged edge of the world [electronic resource] : encounters at the frontier where modernity, wildlands, and indigenous peoples meet / Eugene Linden.

Author
Linden, Eugene [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
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Kindle ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Viking, c2011.
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1 electronic book (273 p.)

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        "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."
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        • 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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