Ragged Edge of the World
Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet
Published on 27. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-452-29774-6 (ISBN)
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.
The Ragged Edge of the World is a critical favorite, and was an editors' pick on Oprah.com.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
316 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-452-29774-6 (9780452297746)
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Eugene Linden
The Ragged Edge of the World
Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet
E-Book
03/2011
Plume
€12.49
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Eugene Linden
Ragged Edge of the World
Encounters at the Frontier Where Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples
Book
10/2011
Viking
€48.52
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Person
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 consulted for the U.S. State Department, the UN Development Program, and he is a widely traveled speaker and lecturer. In 2001, Yale University named Linden a Poynter Fellow in recognition of his writing on the environment. He lives in Nyack, New York, and Washington, D.C.