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  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    af Wade Davis ...
    Serier serie The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned 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 navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Læs mere

    121,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Los guardianes de la sabiduría ancestral

    Su importancia en el mundo moderno

    af Wade Davis ...
    Serier serie Anáneko
    Cada cultura es una respuesta única a una pregunta fundamental: ¿qué significa ser humano y estar vivo? El antropólogo y explorador en residencia de la National Geographic Wade Davis nos conduce en un apasionante viaje para celebrar la sabiduría de las culturas indígenas del mundo. Asimilar las lecciones de este viaje debe ser nuestra misión durante las próximas décadas. El legado de la humanidad ... Læs mere

    59,84 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Beneath the Surface of Things

    New and Selected Essays

    af Wade Davis ...
    “Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.”—John Vaillant, author of Fire WeatherA timely and eclectic collection from one of the foremost thinkers of our time, “a powerful, penetrating and immensely knowledgeable writer” (The Guardian).The essays in this ... Læs mere

    127,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Into The Silence

    The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

    af Wade Davis ...
    **Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award**A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest.'The price of life is death'For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers ... Læs mere

    162,57 kr.

  • Norton of Everest

    The biography of E.F. Norton, soldier and mountaineer

    af Hugh Norton ...
    Major Norton gave the order to fire two or three times. Their advanced machine gunners could be seen rushing forward and establishing themselves in commanding posts. Almost at once the ridge we were occupying was swept by machine gun fire.E.F. Norton lived a life of distinction in the declining years of the British Empire. Born into an accomplished, well-travelled family, he followed his heart and ... Læs mere

    80,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • River Notes

    Drought and the Twilight of the American West — A Natural and Human History of the Colorado

    af Wade Davis ...
    At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers "both a love song and a paean of regret to America's most spectacular river" (Denver Post) and "a plea to save [it] before it’s too late" (The Wall Street Journal).From bestselling author, long-time former National Geographic Explorer, and anthropologist Wade Davis comes the story of America’s ... Læs mere

    108,36 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Bajo la superficie de las cosas

    af Wade Davis ...
    Wade Davis reflexiona sobre nuestro tiempo, sobre los problemas del mundo hoy, pero también desde su pasión por la exploración y la historia de la búsqueda constante de la humanidad por comprender su contexto.Este libro recoge una serie de ensayos que engloban varias de las principales preocupaciones del autor Wade Davis: desde una reflexión sobre lo que dejó la pandemia del coronavirus hasta una ... Læs mere

    85,00 kr.

  • Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (Vol. 2)

    Proceedings from the 2017 Conference

    A defining scholarly publication on the past and current state of research with psychedelic plant substances for medicine, therapeutics, and spiritual uses.Certain plants have long been known to contain healing properties and used to treat everything from depression and addiction, to aiding in on one’s own spiritual well-being for hundreds of years. Can Western medicine find new cures for human ... Læs mere

    74,09 kr.

  • Magdalena. Historias de Colombia

    af Wade Davis ...
    El río Magdalena es la principal razón por la que Colombia existe como nación. Es el surco de vida que permitió a los colombianos establecerse en un territorio que es de las geografías más complejas de todo el planeta. En la cuenca del Magdalena viven cuatro de cada cinco habitantes del país y es la fuente del ochenta por ciento de la riqueza económica de la nación. El Magdalena es al mismo tiempo ... Læs mere

    55,00 kr.

  • Un llamado a la humildad

    af Wade Davis ...
    "El COVID-19 ha atacado nuestros cuerpos, pero también los fundamentos culturales de nuestra existencia, las herramientas de comunidad y conectividad que son para los humanos lo que las garras y los dientes son para el tigre. En tanto especie social, nuestra supervivencia biológica depende de las estructuras que erigimos, la matriz de reciprocidad económica, la compleja red de relaciones sociales, ... Læs mere

    19,00 kr.

  • Tracks in the Amazon

    The Day-to-Day Life of the Workers on the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad

    When construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad began in 1867, Bolivia had lost its war with Chile, causing it to become landlocked and unable to ship its minerals and other products from the Pacific Coast. Since Bolivia needed to find a way to move products from the Atlantic Coast, the government decided a railroad should be built around the Madeira River—which originates in Bolivia and travels ... Læs mere

    161,74 kr.

  • Shadows in the Sun

    Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

    af Wade Davis ...
    Serier serie Shearwater
    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 natural world.Ranging from the British Columbian wilderness to the jungles of the Amazon and the polar ice ... Læs mere

    249,36 kr.