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  1. The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth &#8220Adeft combination of adventure, history, reportage and elegy.&#8221#8212Washington Post 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&#8212th final holdout in a completely connected world.In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed while attempting to visit an island he called &#8220Saan&#8217slast stronghold,&#8221a 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&#8217sill-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&#8212abestselling historian&#8212ha 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&#8217smystery through the centuries, from imperial adventurers to an eccentric Victorian photographer to modern-day anthropologists. It narrates the tragic stories of other Andaman tribes&#8217encounters with the outside world. And it shows how the web of modernity is

  2. drawing ever closer to the island&#8217sshores.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&#8212an dangers&#8212ofour modern, global society and its emphasis on ceaseless, unbroken connection.

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