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You are buying 3 BOOKS by World Famous Anthropologist
and Sacred Plant Explorer
WADE DAVIS = they are as follows:
SHADOWS IN THE SUN: ESSAYS ON THE SPIRIT
OF PLACE
Scarce early book by Wade Davis
By WADE DAVIS
Publisher: Lone Pine in association with Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Edmonton, Alberta
1992 First printing
This book is a soft cover in fine condition with 156 pages. Wade Davis, a Harvard ethnobotanist, writes with empathy and understanding and personal experience about indigenous first nations tribes from the Amazon tropics to the Arctic circle. Included are chapters on shamanic healing, the psychedelic plants of the gods - and on the end of the wild.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Breaking Trail
Dreams of a Jade Forest
The White Darkness
The Sheltering Sky
The Forests of Amazonia
The Art of Shamanic Healing
Seven Sacred Psychedelic Plants
The End of the Wild
Peyote, ololiuqui, datura, ayahuasca, harmine, magic mushrooms ,
LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE REALM OF VANISHING CULTURES
By Wade Davis
Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver
British Columbia & Toronto
2001 FIRST EDITION
This book is a large HARDCOVER in fine condition with 180 pages also with mostly full page color photographs.
The dust jacket is in fine condition.
CONTENTS
Preface
1 : THE WONDER OF THE ETHNOSPHERE
2 : THE EYELIDS OF WOLVES
3 : THE FOREST AND THE STARS
4 : THE FACE OF THE GODS
5 : THE LAST NOMADS
6 : THE LAND OF SNOWS
7 : A THOUSAND WAYS OF BEING
Acknowledgements
FROM THE COVER
RENOWNED ANTHROPOLOGIST and plant explorer
Wade Davis has travelled the world, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the poetics of culture. These passionate quests have taken him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic and the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo and the Amazon, the southern Andes and the mountains of Tibet, the swamps of the Orinoco, the wilds of northern British Columbia, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti.
In Light at the Edge of the World, Davis presents 79 vibrant images from the many thousands of photographs he has taken over the course of 25 years of exploration. Beautiful and haunting in their intimacy, these photographs reveal the wonders of the "ethnosphere" the wealth of human diversity, the limitless potential of the human imagination given form through spiritual desires and cultural adaptation.
Wade Davis's eloquent and captivating text describes what traditional peoples have to teach us about different ways of living and thinking and points out how the dangers facing the ethnosphere could diminish us all. Together, his words and photographs take us into the heart of cultures to reveal that there are other options, other means of interpreting existence, other ways of being.
THE WAYFINDERS: WHY ANCIENT WISDOM MATTERS IN A MODERN WORLD
CBC MASSEY LECTURES SERIES
By Wade Davis
Published by Anansi Press, Toronto, Ontario 2009
This book is a soft cover in fine condition with 262 pages
CONTENTS THE WAYFINDERS
Season of the Brown Hyena
The Wayfinders
Peoples of the Anaconda
Sacred Geography
Century of the Wind
Annotated Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
FROM THE COVER == MANY OF US are alarmed by the accelerating rates of extinction of plants and animals. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18 percent of mammals and 11 percent of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8 percent of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50 percent of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world today will disappear within our lifetimes. And languages are merely the canaries in the coal mine: what of the knowledge, stories, songs, and ways of seeing encoded in these voices?
In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis offers a gripping and enlightening account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures, describing the worldviews they represent and reminding us of the encroaching danger to humankind's survival should they vanish.
WADE DAVIS is the bestselling author of several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow, Light at the Edge of the World, One River, and The Clouded Leopard. He is an award-winning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer, and his writing and photographs have been widely published. Davis currently holds the post of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and divides his time between Washington, D.C. arid northern British Columbia , Canada.MORE ABOUT === Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14, 1953) is a noted Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti. Davis has published popular articles in Outside, National Geographic, Fortune and Condé Nast Traveler. In 2009 he was selected to be the speaker for the Massey Lectures, for his publication, The Wayfinders. A native of British Columbia, Davis, a licensed river guide, has worked as park ranger, forestry engineer, and conducted ethnographic fieldwork among several indigenous societies of northern Canada. He has published 180 scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from Haitian vodoun and Amazonian myth and religion to the global biodiversity crisis, the traditional use of psychedelics, and the ethnobotany of South American Indians. Davis has written for National Geographic, Newsweek, Premiere, Outside, Omni, Harpers, Fortune, Men's Journal, Condé Nast Traveler, Natural History, Scientific American, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, and numerous other international publications. Davis is the co-curator of The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes, first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and currently touring Latin America.Davis’ research has been the subject of more than 800 media reports and interviews in Europe, North and South America and the Far East, and has inspired numerous documentary films as well as three episodes of the television series, The X-Files.
A professional speaker for over twenty years, Davis has lectured at the American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
California Academy of Sciences, Missouri Botanical Garden, Field Museum of Natural History, New York Botanical Garden, National Geographic Society, Royal Ontario Museum, the Explorer's Club, the Royal Geographical Society, the Oriental Institute, the Chattaugua Institute, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank as well as some 400 universities, including Harvard, M.I.T., Oxford, Yale, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Duke, Vanderbilt, University of Pennsylvania, Tulane and Georgetown.He has spoken at the Aspen Institute, Bohemian Grove and on numerous occasions for the Young President’s Organization and at the TED Conference. An Honorary Research Associate of the Institute of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden, he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Fellow of the Explorer's Club, and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Davis was a founding board member of the David Suzuki Foundation and he recently completed a six-year term on the board of the Banff Centre, Canada’s leading institution for the arts. He currently serves on the board of the Amazon Conservation Association. In 2009 he delivered the CBC Massey lectures, Canada’s most prestigious public intellectual forum.
Bibliography == As author ==
1. Davis, Wade (1985). The Serpent and the Rainbow. A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic.)
2. Davis, Wade (1988). Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie. Robert F. Thompson, Richard E. Schultes.
3. Davis, Wade and Thom Henley (1990), Penan Voice for the Borneo Rain Forest,
4. Davis, Wade (1991), The Art of Shamanic Healing, Cross Cultural Shamanism Network.
5. Davis, Wade (1996). One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest.
6. Davis, Wade (1998). Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire.
(Published in Canada as The Clouded Leopard: A Book of Travels, 1998.)
7. Davis, Wade (2001). Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures.
8. Davis, Wade (2009). The Wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world.
9. Davis, Wade (2009). Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures.
10. Davis, Wade (2009). Grand Canyon: River at Risk .
11. Davis, Wade (2011). Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest.
12. Davis, Wade (2012). River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado.
13. Davis, Wade (2015). Los guardianes de la sabidurÃa ancestral. Su importancia en el mundo moderno.
14. Davis, Wade, The Unraveling of America, Rolling Stone, August 6, 2020 - (how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era)
15. Davis, Wade (2020). Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia.
Photography books
16. Davis, Wade, Ian MacKenzie, and Shane Kennedy (1995), Nomads of the Dawn: The Penan of the Borneo Rain Forest.
17. Osborne, Graham (Photographs) and Wade Davis (Text) (1998), Rainforest: Ancient Realm of the Pacific Northwest
18.
Davis, Wade (2004), The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans
Schultes, (Intro by Andrew Weil).
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