The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier
โ Scribed by Linden, Eugene
- Book ID
- 107906631
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 353 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ 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 ragged edges of the globe, the sites where modernity, tradition, and wildlands collide. A 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... Python function terminated unexpectedly [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor (Error Code: 1)
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