The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth

In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed while attempting to visit an island he called "Satan's last stronghold," a small patch of land known as North Sentinel in the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean. News of the tragedy fascinated people around the world. Most were unaware such a place still existed in our time: an island unmolested by the advances of modern technology.



Twenty years before the American missionary's ill-fated visit, a young American...