@article{437789, note = {Includes index.}, author = {Linden, Eugene.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437789}, title = {The ragged edge of the world : encounters at the frontier where modernity, wildlands, and indigenous peoples meet /}, publisher = {Viking,}, abstract = {A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing the last traces of an accumulation of centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest virtually untouched since prehistoric times facing the first incursions of humans--how can we begin to assess the cost of the increasing disappearance of so much of our natural and cultural legacy? While these losses occasionally garner headlines, the pressures on earth's remaining wildlands and tribal peoples are unremitting and mounting. --}, recid = {437789}, pages = {viii, 260 p. ;}, address = {New York :}, year = {2011}, }