Shadows in the Sun - Wade Davis
Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire
KORTE INHOUD
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. As Davis explains, "To know that other, vastly different cultures exist is to remember that our world does not exist in some absolute sense but rather is just one model of reality. The Penan in the forests...
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(XXIV) 292 (1) p. Paperback (In good condition.) Washington/Covelo, Island Press/Shearwater Books 1998 [Auteur: DAVIS, WADE] [Jaar: 1998] [Titel: Shadows in the Sun. Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire]
