Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Davis, Wade

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ISBN 10: 0767904028 ISBN 13: 9780767904025

Casa editrice: Broadway Books, 1999

Riassunto

The author of The Serpent and the Rainbow offers a collection of essays and stories about the relationship between humans and the natural world. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"The wonders of the diversity of various cultures are hunted, gathered, and appreciated here--Davis's lovely, cubist, rich landscape portraits are topographies of spirit, conveying a sense of the music of place."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Delightful. . . . [Shadows in the Sun] is an educational, entertaining miscellany of hard science and weird science."
--Outside

"Essays so sensitively written their pristine language reflects the spectacular beauty of the landscapes they describe. . . . Davis deftly illuminates the little understood connection between biodiversity and cultural diversity, and strongly suggests that more be done to preserve what's left of wilderness."
--Booklist

L'autore:

Wade Davis is a scientist, anthropologist, and writer who received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University and has spent twenty-five years studying the plants, psychotropic drugs, and ceremonial rituals of indigenous cultures around the world. He is the author of the international bestseller The Serpent and the Rainbow, which was later released as a feature motion picture, as well as six other books including One River. Davis's writing has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, Fortune, and Condé Nast Traveler.

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• Editore: Broadway Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0767904028
• ISBN 13: 9780767904025
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 292
• Redattore: Marino Lauren