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Title: Shadows in the Sun : Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire by Wade Davis ISBN: 0-7679-0402-8 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Profound and brilliant
Comment: _Shadows in the Sun_ is a collection of essays on biodiversity, from both an anthropological perspective as well as from a biological standpoint. The brilliance of the book is the way in which Daivs illustrates the juxtaposition and similarity between the two.
Davis takes you from the rainforests of Indonesia to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, voudon practices in Haiti, toad licking in the Amercan southwest, "surviving" in the Canadian arctic. In each essay, the tremendous variety of life (animal - including human - plant and fungal) and its adaptation to its environment is discussed in detail.
I give it four stars rather than five due to the underlying lament of the loss of bio (and cultural) diversity that is taking place worldwide. Certainly this is a just concern, and Davis is not the first to draw attention to this. However by only discussing the damage the modern, industrialized world is causing without addressing ways of elimintating the harm being done makes such observations a moot point. Even with this criticism, however, I highly recommend this book. It is a wonderful read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book of essays I have read in years.
Comment: The author is humane, wise, brilliant and an excellent speaker. One of his talks is on the 'net.
Rating: 5
Summary: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire
Comment: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desir
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Title: ONE RIVER by Wade Davis ISBN: 0684834960 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade Davis ISBN: 0792264746 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW by Wade Davis ISBN: 0684839296 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Rainforest: Ancient Realm of the Pacific Northwest by Wade Davis, David Suzuki, Graham Osborne ISBN: 1890132799 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie by Wade Davis, Richard E. Schultes, Robert Farris Thompson ISBN: 0807842109 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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