Light at the End of the World

Light at the End of the World by Wade Davis

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 the Edge of the World, Davis explores the idea that these distinct cultures represent unique visions of life itself and have much to teach the rest of the world about different ways of living and thinking. As he investigates the dark undercurrents tearing people from their past and propelling them into an uncertain future, Davis reiterates that the threats faced by indigenous cultures endanger and diminish all cultures.

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence WADE DAVIS is an anthropologist and storyteller whose work has taken him into indigenous communities worldwide. He is the author of 17 books including The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986) and Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest (2011), which won the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for best English-language nonfiction. For National Geographic TV he created Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-part documentary. One of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorers Club, in 2011 Davis received their Explorers Medal, the club's highest award.

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ISBN 13	9781550548488
ISBN 10	1550548484
Title	Light at the End of the World
Author	Wade Davis
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Douglas & McIntyre
Year published	2001-10-31
Number of pages	179
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