Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet: Encounters at the Frontier Where Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples - Hardcover

Eugene Linden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670022519 ISBN 13: 9780670022519

Publisher: Viking Books, 2011

Synopsis

A noted environmental writer relives his experiences of how earth s far corners have yielded to or resisted modernity For forty years Eugene Linden has explored global environmental issues in books and for publications ranging from National Geographic and Time to Foreign Affairs. Linden s diverse assignments have brought him to the ragged edges of the globe, the sites where modernity, tradition, and wildlands collide. As money and ideas from the West have seeped into places like Polynesia, the Amazon, and the Arctic, Linden has witnessed dramatic transformations. Even in the Ndoki, celebrated as the most pristine and isolated rainforest in Congo, the impact of the outside world now intrudes in the form of dust blowing in from the north and loggers encroaching from all other directions. In THE RAGGED EDGE OF THE WORLD, Linden recounts his adventures at this slippery and fast-changing frontier Vietnam in 1971 and 1994, New Guinea and Borneo, pygmy forests and Machu Picchu, the Arctic and Antarctic, Cuba and Midway Island charting onrushing social and environmental change. An elegy for what has been lost and a celebration of those cultures resilient enough to maintain their vibrancy, Linden s new book captures the world at a turning point and offers an intimate look at creatures and cultures as they encounter and try to adapt to globalization.

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Review:

"Thoughtful and compelling." -- National Geographic

"Linden is a well-versed guide to complex ecosystems and remote cultures. . . . His recollections are vivid." -- The New Yorker

"From Borneo to sub-Saharan Africa . . . firsthand accounts by a veteran environmental journalist." -- Oprah.com (18 Books to Watch)

About the Author:

Eugene Linden is the author of eight books. For many years, he wrote about global environmental issues for Time. He has contributed to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Fortune, and Slate and has won awards for his environmental journalism. He lives in Irvington, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0670022519
• ISBN 13: 9780670022519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272