The Ragged Edge of the World (41 page)

I'm grateful to Clare Ferraro, the president of Viking Penguin, for her patience in allowing me the time to finish this book, and to Rick Kot for his wonderfully deft edit. Thanks to Paige West for confirming Bruce Beehler's translation of pidgin. As always, Esther Newberg provided me with peerless representation.

Finally, I'm deeply grateful to Jim Bennett, an adventurer in his own right in the world of finance and an exemplar of loyalty and friendship, who has been both creative and flexible in structuring my role at Bennett Management so that I can continue to pursue my writing. In fact, neither this book nor any of my other writing since 1976 would have taken place had not Jim extended a foot for me to grab after I began sliding off a cliff when we were hiking outside Tucson. Thanks for that, too, Jim!

Acosta, Martin

Africa:

aid projects in

author's trips to

corruption in

driving in

growth without development in

logistical difficulties in

loss of indigenous knowledge in

men's roles in

missionaries in

pidgin in

poaching in

primate research stations in

public health tragedies in

roadblocks in

scams in

social contract in

standards of living (human) declining in

traditional healing techniques in

travel within

walks across

wildlife declines in

women as beasts of burden in

African grey parrots

Agardy, Tundi

Aimé (Bora Bora innkeeper)

albatross:

banding of

breeding

diet of

feeding

of Midway

pollutants in

survival rates of

vocalizations of

Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba

Alekseev, Vasili

Aleutian Islands

Aleut Indians

Alexander, Charles

Alexandria, Library of

Alharthi, Suaad

Ali (chimp)

Amazon rainforest, life force of

Amazon Region Protected Area

Ambarchik prison camp, Russia

American Association of Anthropologists

Anagnost, Dino

Anguilla, island species of

Annamite Mountains

Antarctica

clothing for

dead seals in

Dry Valleys

East Antarctic Ice Sheet

global warming in

krill population of

Larsen B Ice Shelf

as lost world

Meserve glacier

raining in

West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS)

Wilkins Ice Shelf

Antarctic Peninsula

Aobe (researcher)

Arctander, Peter

Arctic

Beringia

global warming in

“methane burps,”

Northern Sea Route

North Pole

permafrost of

polar bears in

pollution in

Pribilof Islands

St. Paul Island

Arctic Front

Arctic Wildlife Reserve

Army Corps of Engineers

Askins, Renee

Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Babbitt, Bruce

Baiyer River Bird of Paradise Sanctuary, New Guinea

Bakombe (Pygmy)

Bantu people

Barbarak, Jim

Barry Lyndon
(movie)

Barter, Peter

Batista y Zaldivar, Fulgencio

Bayanga, Central African Republic:

Dzanga Sangha park in

travel to

Beehler, Bruce

beluga whales

Benjalloun, Kamal

Beringia

Bering Strait

Biodiversity Convention

birds of paradise

Blattner, Elwin

Blue Frontier

Boaroa, Teddy

Boesch, Christophe

bonobos, research on

Bora Bora, author's travel to

Borneo

biodiversity in

butterfly in

logging in

new species discovered in

political division of

tribes of

Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de

Boyack, Jim

Brazil:

Atlantic Forest in

changes in

Mato Grosso

Programme for the Protection of Tropical Forests in

rainforest protection in

Brewster, Wayne

Brian, Mimi

Bridger-Teton National Forest

Brown, James H.

Brown, Stuart

Brunei

Buckley, Kevin

Buddhism, Tibetan

Bulmer, Ralph

Burundi, army in

Bush, George W.:

and Midway

in Texas Air National Guard

Bush, Laura

bush babies

Cabot, Sebastian

Cahill, Kevin

Cambodia:

gibbons in

tigers in

Cameroon, deforestation in

Campbell, Bill

capitalism, dangers of

carbon sinks

cargo cults

and crime

magical origins of consumer goods in

Carroll, Richard

Carter, Janis

Carter, Jimmy

Cartier, Jacques

Castro, Fidel

Castro, Raúl

Cat Loc Reserve, Vietnam

Chambers, Mike:

and Djola commandante

ecotourism goals of

as guide in Zaire

Chameides, Bill

Cheetah (chimp)

chimpanzees:

communities of

dancing

and disease

and gorillas

habitat for

and Jane Goodall

in Ndoki

and poachers

sign language of

walking methods of

weapons used by

China, ecological degradation in

Christian, Barry

Christian, Fletcher

Chugach McKinley Inc.

Chukchi people

Churchill, Manitoba

Chutski people

ciguatera dinoflagellate

ciguatera poisoning

Clinton, Bill

Club of Rome,
Limits to Growth

Columbus, Christopher

Commercial Pacific Cable Company

Congo, Democratic Republic of the,
see
Zaire

Congo Basin Initiative

conservation:

anemic international action on

author's imaginary plan for

continental-scale

of functional integrity of landscapes

initiatives

problem of scale in

Conservation International

consumer goods, magical origins of

consumer societies

Conway, Howard

Cook, Captain James

Cordillera del Cóndor Peace Park

Corihuaman, Don Benito

Coupon, William

Cousins, Norman

Cousteau, Jean-Michel

Creswell, Geoff

Cuba

ecological protection in

Humboldt National Park

island ecosystems of

marine terraces of

Parque Nacional Desembarco del Granma

Parque Nacional La Bayamesa

progress in

tree snails of

UNDP mission in

U.S. meddling in

Zapata Swamp National Park

Cunningham, “Duke,”

Darlene (Inuit)

Dawson, Shanthini

Debessa, Leo

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

deer, “slow-running,”

Deer Hunter, The
(movie)

dengue fever

Diamond, Jared:

about Easter Island

Blitzkrieg hypothesis of

Dick, Father

Donor (tracker)

Doran, Diane

Do Tuoc

Dry Valleys, Antarctica

ducks, Laysan

Duffy, Kim

duikers

Dzanga Sangha park, Bayanga

Earth Summit:

Johannesburg (2001)

Rio (1991)

Easter Island:

and cannibalism

Diamond's writings about

diseases on

ecocide of

moais
(stone heads) of

mysteries of

rats in

Eastern Island

Ebola

Ecological Corridor Project

ecological determinism

economic crisis

Ehrich, Ed

Ehrlich, Paul

elephants:

as dangerous

and habitat

intelligence of

poaching of

populations of

and Pygmies

pygmy

socializing

elephant seals

Elliott, Henry Wood

El Niño

Enanyi (forest spirit)

Endangered Species Act

Equateur, Zaire

esotéricas

Estes, Jim

Ewa Plain, Hawaii, forest destruction of

extinction:

and endangered species

patterns of

Exxon Valdez
oil spill (1989)

Fay, Mike

and elephants

and Ndoki

and Pygmies

Feliciano, José

Fernandez, Cesar

Finney, Ben

Flores, hominids on

forests:

destruction of

tropical life force of

Forrester, Jay

Fossey, Dian

Foster, J. Bristol

French Foreign Legion

frog, cricket-chirping

Fund for Investigative Journalism

Galápagos, stresses on

Garcia Frías, Guillermo

Gauguin, Paul

Giap, Bui

Giap, Vo Nguyen

gibbons:

in Cambodian reserve

northern buffed-cheek

Glass-Steagall Act

global economy, impact of

global warming:

and Antarctica

and Arctic

and Midway

and Northwest Passage

and polar bears

Goblin (chimp)

Golden Fleece, legend of

Gombe Stream Reserve, Tanzania

Gomez-Echeverri, Luis

Gondwanaland, flora and fauna

Goodall, Harry

Goodall, Jane

and chimps

and Gombe Reserve

Gorbachev, Mikhail

gorillas:

and chimps

foods of

habitat for

in Ndoki

poaching of

refuges for

wary of humans

Grand Teton National Park

Grant, Cary (Archie Leach)

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Greene, Graham

greenhouse gases

Greenland ice sheet, shrinkage in

Groves, Colin

Guantánamo, Cuba

Gulf oil spill

Gunung Leuser park, Sumatra

Guyana Shield

habitat destruction

Hardin, Rebecca

Harris, Marvin

Hatiguanico River, Cuba

Hatun Karpay ritual

Haugie, John

Hawaiian Islands:

and habitat loss

Northwestern

and ocean currents

refuge in

hawks, zone-tailed

Helvarg, David

Hemingway, Ernest

Hersh, Seymour

himbos

HMS
Bounty

Homo floresiensis
(“hobbits”)

Hooven, Carole

Hudson Bay, Canada:

hunting in

and Northwest Passage

polar bears in

Hudson Bay Port Company

Hulse, David

Humboldt, Alexander

Hunt, Terry

Ida (missionary)

Imoso (chimp)

Inca rituals

indigenous knowledge:

and generation gap

of language

loss of

modernity vs.

and poverty

preservation of

of Pygmies

ritual and taboo

and schooling

transmission of

Western prejudices against

Indonesia:

and Borneo

flora and fauna of

logging in

Ingmanson, Ellen

International Primatological Society

islands:

eccentrics attracted to

extinctions on

and surrounding ecosystems

survival of

unique species on

Ixtoc spill (1979)

Jackson, Bob

Javan rhino

jellyfish

Jessup, Tim

Joachime (Pygmy tracker)

Johnny (chimp)

Johnson, Allen

Johnston, Dave

Jonathan (orangutan)

Kagame, Paul

Kahuzi-Biega, Zaire

Kalem people, New Guinea

Kalimantan,
see
Borneo

Kamchatka

Kano, Takayoshi

Kanyawara community of chimps

Karisoke gorilla refuge, Rwanda

Kemlil, Slava

Kerwin, Father

Kigali, Rwanda

Kim Quang, Vietnam

Kinshasa Barbarians (rugby team)

Klavitter, John

Kloyman, Gerald