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The wasting of Borneo : dispatches from a vanishing world  Cover Image Book Book

The wasting of Borneo : dispatches from a vanishing world / Alex Shoumatoff.

Shoumatoff, Alex, (author.).

Summary:

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]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
The education of an animist -- Wonder wandering -- Learning from the animals -- Vanishing Edens.
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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Stroud Branch 915.9830443 Sho 31681010050912 NONFIC Available -

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