Summary
Wade Davis: Light at the End of the World
From his travels, which he undertook to explore the secrets of sacred plants and discover the heart of cultures, the famous anthropologist Wade Davis returns with stories that speak vividly of many different ways of thinking, living and being, but traditional peoples, living in remote places - the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rainforests of Borneo and the Amazon, the Andes and mountains of Tibet, the Orinoco swamps, the wilds of British Columbia and the surreal the cultural landscape of Haiti - faced with the danger of losing their ways of life, at the expense of the richness of humanity's diversity.
These passionate and captivating essays first appeared in the critically acclaimed book of photographs Light at the End of the World, by Wade Davis.
Wade Davis is a resident researcher of the National Geographic Society and the author of many books, including the international The Serpent and the Rainbow
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