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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, 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...
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Chronicle Books
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c2004
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English
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Presents a photographic documentary of Richard Evans Schultes' explorations in the Amazon where he spent twelve years living among local tribes and studying the plants of the rainforest, and includes explanatory captions, as well as a biographical introduction.
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In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process and examine it for potential medical use.Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political...
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For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world's traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. In Light at...
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From international bestselling author Wade Davis comes a beautifully-written, fascinating history of the Colorado River that offers "both a love song and a paean of regret to America's most spectacular river&$34; (Denver Post) and "a plea to save [it] before it's too late" (The Wall Street Journal).
In this remarkable blend of history, science, and personal observation, former National Geographic Explorer and anthropologist Wade Davis tells the...
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INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR: Wade Davis has written several, critically acclaimed books including Magdalena and Into the Silence.
MEDIA INTEREST: Davis's viral Rolling Stone piece "The Unraveling of America" is included in this collection. He has also appeared in/written for outlets including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal.
UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE: Davis, who holds degrees in...
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A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombies and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombies-people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough...
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Follow the great Colorado River as it reveals the most pressing environmental story of our time, the world's growing shortage of fresh water. Join environmental advocates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Wade Davis as they travel the Grand Canyon.
10) #ArtOffline
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MVD Entertainment Group
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2015.
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English
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What happens to art in the Internet age? The philosophers, artists and exhibition makers in this documentary believe that endless reproduction liberates art from a muddled art market and an undemocratic exhibition circuit. Some critics wonder whether the urge for physical objects is really just a nostalgic fetishism. But aren't we losing something if the physical artworks disappears? Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam**....