The Ragged Edge of the World : Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet
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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Performance by Luis Moreno.
Linden tells this story through encounters at this movable frontier. He takes us from Vietnam--where exciting new species are being discovered near the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail--to New Guinea and Borneo; from pygmy forests to Machu Picchu; from the Antarctic, where the entire ecosystem is changing, to the Ndoki, long celebrated as the most pristine rainforest in the Congo, which, even though it now has protection, suffers impacts from the outside world as dust, a portent of an ominous drying, blows in from the north. Even in the face of so much harm, however, many efforts at preservation have succeeded, and Linden charts such pioneering projects as the protection of Midway Atoll's vast albatross colony and Cuba's vigilant guardianship of its spectacularly beautiful landscape.
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PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 9 sound discs (11 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781461801191
1461801192
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Moreno, Luis
Recorded Books, Inc.
SUBJECTS
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology.
Indigenous peoples -- History.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- History.