Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Davis, Wade

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ISBN 10: 1597263923 ISBN 13: 9781597263924

Verlag: ISLAND PR, 2010

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Wade Davis has been called 'a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity'. In "Shadows in the Sun", he brings all of those gifts to bear on a fascinating examination of indigenous cultures and the interactions between human societies and the natural world. Ranging from the British Columbian wilderness to the jungles of the Amazon and the polar ice of the Arctic Circle, "Shadows In The Sun" is a testament to a world where spirits still stalk the land and seize the human heart. Its essays and stories, though distilled from travels in widely separated parts of the world, are fundamentally about landscape and character, the wisdom of lives drawn directly from the land, the hunger of those who seek to rediscover such understanding, and the consequences of failure.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Biografía del autor:

Wade Davis has spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, and later went to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies. The Haiti assignment led to his writing The Serpent and the Rainbow (Simon and Schuster, 1986), an international bestseller that was later released as a feature motion picture. Among his other books are Nomads of the Dawn (Pomegranate Press, 1995), Passage of Darkness (University of North Carolina Press, 1988) and One River (Simon and Schuster, 1996).

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• Verlag: ISLAND PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1597263923
• ISBN 13: 9781597263924
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292