SAVAGING THE CIVILISED
India Today|January 15, 2024
Adam Goodheart's The Last Island is a fascinating and heartbreaking account of the Andaman encounter with the outside world
Srinath Perur
SAVAGING THE CIVILISED

THE LAST ISLAND A Story of the Andamans and the Most Elusive Tribe in the World Goodheart By Adam JUGGERNAUT 699; 256 pages

In early 2019, I was on a plane descending into Port Blair when the pilot came on the PA system to say passengers might want to check out the island to our left—North Sentinel. For those who had missed the breathless news coverage, he explained that an American missionary had been killed there recently by the islanders, an isolated tribe that wanted to stay that way.

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