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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: last island
    sub title: discovery, defiance, and the most elusive tribe on earth
  name:
    name part: Goodheart, Adam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
  abstract: "A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery-the final holdout in a completely connected world. In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed while attempting to visit an island he called "Satan's last stronghold," a small patch of land known as North Sentinel in the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean. News of the tragedy fascinated people around the world. Most were unaware such a place still existed in our time: an island unmolested by the advances of modern technology, where the natives go naked and hunt with bows and arrows. Twenty years before the American missionary's ill-fated visit, a young American historian and journalist named Adam Goodheart also traveled to the waters off North Sentinel. During his time in the Andaman Islands he witnessed another isolated tribe emerge into modernity for the first time. Now, Goodheart-a bestselling historian-has returned to the Andamans. The Last Island is a work of history as well as travel, a journey in time as well as place. It tells the stories of others drawn to North Sentinel's mystery through the centuries, from imperial adventurers to an eccentric Victorian photographer to modern-day anthropologists. It narrates the tragic stories of other Andaman tribes' encounters with the outside world. And it shows how the web of modernity is drawing ever closer to the island's shores. The Last Island is a beautifully written meditation on the end of the Age of Discovery at the start of a new millennium. It is a book that will fascinate any reader interested in the limits-and dangers-of our modern, global society and its emphasis on ceaseless, unbroken connection"--
  table of contents: I. Isles of the Blessed -- II. First Journey, 1998 -- III. Second Journey, 1857-1900 -- IV. Third Journey, 2020 -- Illustrations -- Sources and addenda -- Acknowledgments.
  target audience: adult
  note: Adam Goodheart.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Sentinelese (Indic people)
  subject:
    geographic: Andaman Islands (India)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Andaman Islands (India)
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    topic: Diplomatic relations
  subject:
    topic: Sentinelese (Indic people)
  subject:
    geographic: India
    geographic: Andaman Islands
  classification: DS432.S42 G66 2023
  classification: 305.8959
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Last island
    name:
      name part: Goodheart, Adam.
    origin info:
      publisher: Boston : Godine, 2023
    identifier: (DLC) 2023002220
  identifier: 9781567926828
  identifier: 1567926827
  identifier: 9781567926842
  identifier: 2023002219
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230118
    record change date: 20250318222504.4
    record identifier: in00004770868
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng