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Author Linden, Eugene.

Title The ragged edge of the world : [encounters at the frontier where modernity, wildlands, and indigenous peoples meet] / Eugene Linden.

Publication Info. Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2012]
℗2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Reading Room  CD BOOK 303.482 LIN    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 9 audio discs (11 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Subtitle from container cover.
Performer Performance by Luis Moreno.
Note Tracks every 3-6 Minutes.
Duration: 11:15:00.
Compact disc.
Summary 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.
Note GMD: compact disc.
Subject Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions.
Ethnoecology.
Indigenous peoples -- History.
First contact (Anthropology) -- History.
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Added Author Moreno, Luis. Narrator.
Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN 9781461801191
1461801192
Music No. C6168 Recorded Books
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