The Last Island

I’ve been thinking a lot this year about how the world has been transformed in my lifetime through cheap air travel, mass media, and finally social media. They made us all more connected yet somehow more alienated from each other.

This book about people living in isolated, traditional societies in the Andaman Islands and their uneasy relationship with “civilization” shows, like no other book I’ve read, how much we lost in the long twentieth century.

Adam Goodheart (full disclosure – a friend) is a gifted writer who is capable of turning the most humdrum tasks, such as opening a TV… show more.