The wasting of Borneo : dispatches from a vanishing world

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: print
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.