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The ragged edge of the world: encounters at the frontier where modernity, wildlands and indigenous peoples meet

By Eugene , Linden

Book information

Publisher
Plume Books;Viking Adult
ISBN
9781101476130, 1101476133
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
644 kB (659247 bytes)
Pages
272\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:43
Nonfiction;Travel;Environment;Anthropology;Nature;

Description

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.

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