Endangered Peoples.

• Author: Fruchtbaum, Harold

Photographs by Art Wolfe and John Isaac San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1993 195 pp. $30. ISBN 0-87156-457-2

Brilliant pictures, many by John Isaac--the dean of UN photographers--and the humane text by Art Davidson illuminate the on-going tragedy described in Endangered Peoples. While the number of the world's indigenous people may be between 200 million and 250 million, some estimate that 200,000 are killed yearly. Approximately 90 per cent of humankind's 6,000 languages will probably vanish in the next century "Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this unprecedented loss of humanity is that so few people seem to notice"...