A Road to Extinction - Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands? (Paperback)

The Jarawa, one of the oldest tribes of human beings in the world, may go extinct because of a road that runs through pristine forests in the Indian-administered Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, and no one seems to care. Tourists take the road each day to try and get selfies with the tribespeople, who came from what is now Botswana over 60,000 years ago. Once proud of their independence, the Jarawa are now tempted with biscuits and trinkets, as if they were exotic animals in a human safari park. They can’t survive like this. In this astonishing book, Jonathan Lawley returns to what was once a penal colony built by the British to house Indian mutineers. He asks what responsibility colonial administrators like his grandfather may have had for the sad plight of these palaeolithic hunter- gatherers, and what the Indian government should now be doing to protect them.

General

Imprint:	EnvelopeBooks
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2020
Authors:	Jonathan Lawley
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-83817-201-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > Conservation of wildlife & habitats > Endangered species & extinction of species Books > History > General
LSN:	1-83817-201-7
Barcode:	9781838172015

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