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The wasting of Borneo : dispatches from a vanishing world / Alex Shoumatoff.
In his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades, seasoned travel writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from the woods of rural New York to the rain forests of the Amazon and Borneo, documenting both the abundance of life and the threats to these vanishing Edens in a wide-ranging narrative.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807078242 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 184 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The education of an animist -- Wonder wandering -- Learning from the animals -- Vanishing Edens. |
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| Subject: | Shoumatoff, Alex > Travel. Shoumatoff, Alex > Travel > Borneo. Voyages and travels. Human ecology. Ethnology. Borneo > Description and travel. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 915.9830443 Sho | 31681010050912 | NONFIC | Available | - |
Alex Shoumatoff has been a staff writer for the New Yorker, and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Outside, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Esquire, and Onearth, and he has written more than 120 long magazine pieces. His previous books include The Mountain of Names, In Southern Light: Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon, African Madness, and The World Is Burning. In 2001 he founded DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld.com to raise consciousness about the planetâs fast-disappearing biocultural diversity.
