Travels in a Stone Canoe by Harvey Arden

Travels in a Stone Canoe by Harvey Arden

In this luminous story, two journalists from National Geographic on assignment in Indian Country cross an invisible boundary between two worlds, two different visions of reality -- and find their lives transformed. In a stunning and probing narrative -- part adventure tale, part reflection and epiphany -- the authors of Wisdomkeepers embark on a dramatic spirit journey into the living wisdom of Native American spiritual elders.
When, nearly twenty years ago, a darkly enigmatic Cherokee herbalist approached Harvey Arden and Steve Wall with the proposition that they join him in a study of the lives, wisdom, and spiritual practices of Native America's fast-disappearing Old Ones, the veteran writer and photographer found themselves thrust, despite their own hard-nosed skepticism, onto a mystic path of the Wisdomkeepers.
After receiving signs foretold by the Cherokee, they set off on a journey of spiritual discovery through another world, called Great Turtle Island, where the Old Ones -- the Wisdomkeepers of aboriginal culture in North America -- bestowed upon them piece by surprising piece a set of rules for being human called Original Instructions.
Arden and Wall eventually left their Geographic careers and journalism altogether, and in 1990 produced an interim report on their spirit journey, their now-classic international bestseller Wisdomkeepers: Meeting with Native American Spiritual Elders. In that book they recalled, We went out two journalists after a good story. We came back two 'runners' from another world, carrying an urgent message from the Wisdomkeepers. This book is that message.
Now, in Travels in a Stone Canoe, that message is further deepened and elaborated as the authors reveal the intensely personal story behind -- and beyond -- their journey to the Wisdomkeepers. A final, incandescent chapter, Original Instructions, sums up the transforming and highly practical wisdom they found. Wisdom, they learned, is not something you believe. It's something you do. This is a story that will inform, enlighten, and move every reader who accompanies the authors in their Travels in a Stone Canoe.

Wall, Steve: - Steve Wall, a documentary photographer, has worked in more than forty countries, primarily for National Geographic magazine and books. His work has been featured in the United States and international publications and exhibited in galleries, museums, and collections in more than eight countries, including The International Center of Photography in New York and the Gallery of the Union of Artists in Moscow, Russia.

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ISBN 13	9780684800943
ISBN 10	0684800942
Title	Travels in a Stone Canoe
Author	Harvey Arden
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Binding Type	Other book format
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	1998-12-01
Number of pages	304
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