"In a world rushing towards the future, the last island stands as a beacon of what we leave behind – both the beauty and the burden of history." - Adam Goodheart The Last Island is an exploration of a remote island's struggle against the forces of modern imperialism and technology. Goodheart's narrative begins with a personal obsession and spirals outward into a profound examination of the human condition and the value of contact. North Sentinel Island is a tiny speck of land in the Indian Ocean, inhabited by a reclusive tribe that has almost no contact with modernity. Located on the fringes of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, it caught the attention of the world in 2018, when a young, Bible- clutching American missionary tried to visit the island and was killed by islanders. While not the only reclusive tribe to survive into the twenty-first century, the Sentinelese are the only ones to have an island wholly their own and have been described by Sur
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