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The Wayfinders Wade Davis

The Wayfinders By Wade Davis

The Wayfinders by Wade Davis


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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis

Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.
In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true Lost Civilization, the people of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the Earth really is alive, while in the far reaches of Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of Africa. We then travel to Nepal, where we encounter a wisdom hero, a Bodhisattva, who emerges from forty-five years of Buddhist retreat and solitude. And finally we settle in Borneo, where the last rainforest nomads struggle to survive.
Understanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next century. For at risk is the human legacy a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalogue of the imagination. Rediscovering a new appreciation for the diversity of the human spirit, as expressed by culture, is among the central challenges of our time.

About Wade Davis

WADE DAVIS is the bestselling author of several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow, Light at the Edge of the World, and One River. He is an award-winning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer. Davis currently holds the post of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and divides his time between Washington, D.C. and northern British Columbia.

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GOR005288162
9780887847660
0887847668
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis
Used - Very Good
Paperback
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
2009-10-29
280
Winner of Libris Awards (Nonfiction) 2010 Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Foreign) 2010 Commended for Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction 2009
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