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"Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of Borneo 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. Alex and his best friend, Davie, spent their formative years in the forest of Bedford, New York. As adults they grew apart, but bonded by the ""imaginary jungle"" of their childhood, Alex and Davie reunited fifty years later for a trip to a real jungle, in the heart of Borneo. During the intervening years, Alex had become an author and literary journalist, traveling the world to bring to light places, animals, and indigenous cultures in peril. The two reconnect and spend three weeks together on Borneo, one of the most imperiled ecosystems on earth. Insatiable demand for the palm oil ubiquitous in consumer goods is wiping out the world's most ancient and species-rich rain forest, home to the orangutan and countless other life-forms, including the Penan people, with whom Alex and Davie camp. The Penan have been living in Borneo's rain forest for millennia, but 90 percent of the lowland rain forest has already been logged and burned to make way for vast oil-palm plantations. Among the most endangered tribal people on earth, the Penan are fighting for their right to exist. Shoumatoff condenses a lifetime of learning about what binds humans to animals, nature, and each other, culminating in a celebration of the Penan and a call for Westerners to address the palm-oil crisis and protect the biodiversity that sustains us all."

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Author:   Alex Shoumatoff
Publisher:   Beacon Press
Imprint:   Beacon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780807078242

ISBN 10:   0807078247
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. African Women and Peacebuilding Anna Chitando 2. Women in Peacebuilding: Influencing Africa's Peace and Security Architecture Lukong Stella Shulika and Janet Muthoni Muthuki 3. Women's Participation in Peacebuilding in Africa Esther Tawiah 4. Young Women and Peacebuilding Maureen Guma 5. Building Sustainable Peace in Post-Conflict Settings in Africa: A Case Study of Liberia Pearl Karuhanga Atuhaire 6. Women and Peacebuilding in Madagascar Gaby Razafindrakoto 7. Women as Religious Citizens and Peacebuilding in Kenya Loreen Maseno 8. Women as Agents of Peace in the Midlands Province, Zimbabwe: Towards Sustainable Peace and Development Sophia Chirongoma 9. Women with Disabilities, Peacebuilding and Development in Adamawa State, Nigeria Jessie Fubara-Manuel and Justina Mike Ngwobia 10. Peacebuilding through health work: Opportunities and challenges for women community health volunteers in Kenya Roseanne Njiru 11. Women, Artisanal Mining and Peacebuilding in Africa Maame Esi Eshun 12. A Role Analysis of Women in the Fight against Terrorism in Nigeria Grace Atim 13. Not all heroes Wear Caps : Women and Peacebuilding in the Public Sphere in Zambia through a Narrative of Susan Sikaneta Nelly Mwale 14. Swimming Against the Current : Queen Labotsibeni, the Epitome of Effective Peacebuilding in Eswatini Sonene Nyawo 15. Pray the Devil Back to Hell as a Resource for Appreciating African Women's Contribution to Peacebuilding Anna Chitando

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Praise for Alex Shoumatoff Shoumatoff is a genuine citizen of the world, at home with people everywhere, and his example serves as an inspiration to all who cherish the ties that unite humankind...In my opinion, he ranks among the very best nature writers of our or any other time. Timothy Ferris Like a Graham Greene character, Alex Shoumatoff seems drawn to hot, bug-ridden places, tropical backwaters of the third world, where the superficial comforts and rules of the West do not apply...His writing combines a naturalist s precision with a journalist s chatty command of facts. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

<b>Praise for Alex Shoumatoff</b> Shoumatoff is a genuine citizen of the world, at home with people everywhere, and his example serves as an inspiration to all who cherish the ties that unite humankind...In my opinion, he ranks among the very best nature writers of our or any other time. Timothy Ferris Like a Graham Greene character, Alex Shoumatoff seems drawn to hot, bug-ridden places, tropical backwaters of the third world, where the superficial comforts and rules of the West do not apply...His writing combines a naturalist s precision with a journalist s chatty command of facts. Michiko Kakutani, <i>New York Times</i> <b>Praise for <i>The Wasting of Borneo</i></b> Shoumatoff s book will make you experience both animals and nature with all your senses. Smell and sound may be more important than vision. Perceive animals in a new way. Temple Grandin, author of <i>Animals in Translation</i> and <i>Thinking in Pictures</i> Alex Shoumatoff is a pure gonzo naturalist, the love child of Bruce Chatwin and Hunter Thompson. <i>The Wasting of Borneo</i> is an important book about human greed, climate change, and animism (among many other serious matters), and a head-spinning trip to the furthest reaches of the known world. Russell Banks

<b>Praise for Alex Shoumatoff</b> Shoumatoff is a genuine citizen of the world, at home with people everywhere, and his example serves as an inspiration to all who cherish the ties that unite humankind...In my opinion, he ranks among the very best nature writers of our or any other time. Timothy Ferris Like a Graham Greene character, Alex Shoumatoff seems drawn to hot, bug-ridden places, tropical backwaters of the third world, where the superficial comforts and rules of the West do not apply...His writing combines a naturalist s precision with a journalist s chatty command of facts. Michiko Kakutani, <i>New York Times</i> <b>Praise for <i>The Wasting of Borneo</i></b> Like all major authors, Shoumatoff s eloquent narrative is informed by the seminal landscapes that have shaped his life, the perspectives from which his engaging encounters with the natural world are revealed. <i>The Wasting of Borneo</i> affirms what occurs when humanity because of its lethal consumerism abandons its loving connection to and reverence for that which sustains it, a subject forcefully conveyed as the fragile voice of the natural world dashes toward an eerie silence. Bernie Krause, PhD Shoumatoff s book will make you experience both animals and nature with all your senses. Smell and sound may be more important than vision. Perceive animals in a new way. Temple Grandin, author of <i>Animals in Translation</i> and <i>Thinking in Pictures</i> Alex Shoumatoff is a pure gonzo naturalist, the love child of Bruce Chatwin and Hunter Thompson. <i>The Wasting of Borneo</i> is an important book about human greed, climate change, and animism (among many other serious matters), and a head-spinning trip to the furthest reaches of the known world. Russell Banks

Author Information

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 planet's fast-disappearing biocultural diversity.

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