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

Linden, Eugene

 
9780452297746: The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0452297745 ISBN 13: 9780452297746
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

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 travelled 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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About the Author

Eugene Linden is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Parrot's Lament, The Future in Plain Sight, Silent Partners and other books on animals and the environment. He has been an advisor to the U.S. State Department, the UN Development Programme and he is a widely travelled speaker and lecturer. In 2001, Yale University named Linden a Poynter Fellow in recognition of his writing on the environment.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0452297745
ISBN 13 
9780452297746
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
272

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