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

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A noted environmental writer relives his experiences of how Earth's far corners have yielded to or resisted modernity.

Introduction	p. 1
War and Peace
Vietnam 1994	p. 15
Culture Wars
An Elusive Butterfly in Borneo	p. 25
New Guinea: The Godsend of Cargo	p. 35
New Guinea Redux	p. 46
Polynesia Lost and Found	p. 58
Roads to Ruin
Rapa Nui: The Other Side of the Story	p. 73
Bangui, Bayanga and Bouar	p. 79
Equateur Devolving	p. 91
Apes at the Brink
Travels with Jane	p. 109
Listening to Pygmies	p. 119
The Antipodes: The Long Reach of Humanity
Unfreezing Time	p. 133
The Arctic	p. 143
The Near Wild
The Wolf at the Door	p. 159
Survivors
The Lost Worlds of Cuba	p. 169
Midway	p. 184
In the Forests It's Good to Be a Pygmy	p. 197
Inner Worlds: Magic, Practical and Otherwise
Shamans, Healers and Experiences I Can't Explain	p. 217
Esotéricas	p. 223
Final Thoughts	p. 230
Acknowledgments	p. 247
Index	p. 251
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