age ~50
from Vallejo, CA
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 natur...
Author
Wade Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
Island Press
ISBN #
1559633549
EAN Code
9781559633543
ISBN #
15
Art Wolfe’s definitive opus, Earth Is My Witness represents forty years of expeditionary photography. For the first time, Wolfe presents the three subjects at the heart of his work—landscapes, wildlife, and cultures on the edge of extinction—in a single masterpiece that takes us through the world’s ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
396
Publisher
Earth Aware Editions
ISBN #
1608873064
EAN Code
9781608873067
ISBN #
13
The most comprehensive collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published. A panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience. These include indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as narratives related by western t...
Author
Richard Evans Schultes, Robert Raffauf
Binding
Paperback
Pages
290
Publisher
Synergetic Press
ISBN #
090779131X
EAN Code
9780907791317
ISBN #
10
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world’s most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to more than 25 million people. If it ceased ...
Author
Wade Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
176
Publisher
Island Press
ISBN #
1610910206
EAN Code
9781610910200
ISBN #
9
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 naviga...
Author
Wade Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
280
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
ISBN #
0887847668
EAN Code
9780887847660
ISBN #
3
The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven,...
Author
Wade Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
688
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
0375708154
EAN Code
9780375708152
ISBN #
2
For more than a decade, photographer Luis Fabini immersed himself in cowboy culture as he traveled through North and South America. This stunning collection of photographs from those travels reveals the cowboy who lives in silence and solitude, the interconnectedness of the men with the land, and a ...
Author
Wade Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
168
Publisher
Greystone Books
ISBN #
1771641169
EAN Code
9781771641166
ISBN #
14
For renowned anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis, the term " ethnosphere" encompasses the wealth of human diversity and all that traditional cultures have to teach about different ways of living and thinking.In "Light at the Edge of the World, Davis--best known for "The Serpent and the Rainb...
Author
Wade Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
180
Publisher
National Geographic
ISBN #
0792264746
EAN Code
9780792264743
ISBN #
11
Davis Wade Stadium is the home playing venue for the Mississippi State Bulldogs football team. Located in Starkville, Mississippi, the stadium has a ...