Name: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
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Author: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9781459664821

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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wade Davis

Publisher

ReadHowYouWant

Language

English

Pages

276

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 17.8 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.55 kg.

ISBN13

9781459664821

Synopsis "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World "

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 the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization, the Peoples of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the earth really is alive, while in 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.

Wade Davis

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(Vancouver, 1953) is a professor of Anthropology and holds the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He studied Anthropology and Biology at Harvard University, where he also received his PhD in Ethnobotany. From 1999 to 2013, he was a Resident Explorer at the National Geographic Society. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The River (1996), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1997), Shadows in the Sun (1998), The Rainforest (1998), The Clouded Leopard (1998), and The Guardians of Ancient Wisdom (2009), and in 2012 he won the “Samuel Johnson” Prize for his book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. He has also developed a prolific audiovisual career, highlighted by the eight-hour documentary series Light at the Edge of the World, written and produced for the National Geographic Society. Davis has received eleven honorary degrees, as well as the Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2009, and from Harvard University the Explorers Medal (2011), the “David Fairchild” Medal for botanical explorations (2012), and the Centenary Medal (2015). Since 2016, he is a Member of the Order of Canada and in 2017 received the “Sir Christopher Ondaatje” Medal for Exploration.

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