The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee T Paperback - 2012
by Eugene Linden
A noted environmental writer relives his experiences of how Earth's far corners have yielded to or resisted modernity.
Summary
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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- Title The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee T
- Author Eugene Linden
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books
- Date 2012-03-27
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780452297746 / 0452297745
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.33 x 0.65 in (20.22 x 13.54 x 1.65 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Cultural Region: Developing World
- Library of Congress subjects Indigenous peoples - Social conditions, Indigenous peoples - Ecology
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.482
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