Name: light at the edge of the world,a journey through the realm of vanishing cultures
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Author: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9781553652670

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light at the edge of the world,a journey through the realm of vanishing cultures

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wade Davis

Publisher

Douglas & McIntyre

Language

English

Pages

202

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6x12.7x1.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

1553652673

ISBN13

9781553652670

Synopsis "light at the edge of the world,a journey through the realm of vanishing cultures"

For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world's traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. In Light at the Edge of the World, Davis explores the idea that these distinct cultures represent unique visions of life itself and have much to teach the rest of the world about different ways of living and thinking. As he investigates the dark undercurrents tearing people from their past and propelling them into an uncertain future, Davis reiterates that the threats faced by indigenous cultures endanger and diminish all cultures.

Wade Davis

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(Vancouver, 1953) is a professor of Anthropology and holds the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He studied Anthropology and Biology at Harvard University, where he also received his PhD in Ethnobotany. From 1999 to 2013, he was a Resident Explorer at the National Geographic Society. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The River (1996), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1997), Shadows in the Sun (1998), The Rainforest (1998), The Clouded Leopard (1998), and The Guardians of Ancient Wisdom (2009), and in 2012 he won the “Samuel Johnson” Prize for his book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. He has also developed a prolific audiovisual career, highlighted by the eight-hour documentary series Light at the Edge of the World, written and produced for the National Geographic Society. Davis has received eleven honorary degrees, as well as the Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2009, and from Harvard University the Explorers Medal (2011), the “David Fairchild” Medal for botanical explorations (2012), and the Centenary Medal (2015). Since 2016, he is a Member of the Order of Canada and in 2017 received the “Sir Christopher Ondaatje” Medal for Exploration.

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