Alex Shoumatoff Libros

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. Shoumatoff condenses a lifetime of learning about what binds humans to animals, nature, and each other, culminating in a celebration of the Penan--who have been living in Borneo's rainforest for a millennia-- and a call for Westerners to address the palm-oil crisis and protect the biodiversity that sustains us all. --Adapted from publisher description