The ragged edge of the world: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet
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.
First contact (Anthropology)
First contact (Anthropology) -- History
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- History
History
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology
Indigenous peoples -- History
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions
Nature
Nonfiction
Social conditions
Sociology
Travel
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subject_facet | First contact (Anthropology) -- History First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- History Indigenous peoples -- Ecology Indigenous peoples -- History Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | The ragged edge of the world : encounters at the frontier where modernity, wildlands, and indigenous peoples meet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | The Ragged Edge of the World Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet The ragged edge of the world : encounters at the frontier where modernity, wildlands, and indigenous peoples meet / Eugene Linden The ragged edge of the world : encounters at the frontier where modernity, wildlands, and indigenous peoples meet [electronic resource] / Eugene Linden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The ragged edge of the world | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Ecology First contact (Anthropology) First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners History Indigenous peoples Nature Nonfiction Social conditions Sociology Travel |