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Title details for The Last Island by Adam Goodheart - Available

The Last Island

Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth

by Adam Goodheart
Will Tulin
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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.
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.

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  • Release date

    September 26, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9798350865417
      • File size: 163024 KB
      • Duration: 05:39:37

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Adam Goodheart shares his experiences visiting "the most isolated people in the world" on North Sentinel, in the Andaman Islands in India's Bay of Bengal. In this audiobook he shares accounts of their history. Will Tulin calmly narrates Goodheart's first visit, leaving room for amazement at flying fish and dolphins. Tulin reflects Goodheart's lament over the plastic trash that washes up on shore. Sarcasm creeps in when he lists names such as "Friday" that were given to Sentinelese islanders over the years. He brings clarity to a viceroy's rejection of misconceptions about the islanders. There's a travel magazine's excitement at doing an article on the island and drama in the story of a missionary's death. All make this an obscure but fascinating listen. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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