The Wayfinders
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true Lost Civilization, the people of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the Earth really is alive, while in the far reaches of Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of A…
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- ISBN: 978-0-88784-766-0
- EAN: 9780887847660
- Produktnummer: 19378965
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.7 cm 274 g
- Gewicht: 274
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WADE DAVIS is the bestselling author of several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow, Light at the Edge of the World, and One River. He is an award-winning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer. Davis currently holds the post of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and divides his time between Washington, D.C. and northern British Columbia.
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