'It is a violent overture, like the opening notes of an opera about war, a war between humans and the land.' For many years and through many of the world's most remote regions...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Wade Davis
ISBN:9780375408892
In this magisterial work of history and adventure, Wade Davis vividly re-creates Britain's epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:672
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Wade Davis
ISBN:9780747557548
His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very heart of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa...more details Format:Hardback
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Wade Davis
ISBN:9780500285244
The Lost Amazon is the first major publication to examine Richard Evans Schultes's work through his photographs. Over the course of two decades...more details Format:Hardback Pages:176
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Wade Davis
ISBN:9780807842102
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore...more details Format:Paperback Pages:365
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Wade Davis
ISBN:9781890132248
Chelsea Green's collected work on the subject of sustainable forestry has just been enlarged with the paperback edition of Rainforest: Ancient Realm of the Pacific Northwest...more details Format:Hardback
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Wade Davis
ISBN:9781597263924
Wade Davis has been called 'a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of lifes diversity.' In Shadows in the Sun...more details Format:Paperback Pages:292
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Wade Davis
ISBN:9780684839295
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Wade Davis
ISBN:9780887847660
The most prestigious and eagerly anticipated lecture series of the year, The CBC Massey Lectures are being delivered in 2009 by acclaimed author and anthropologist Wade Davis. Described as a "rare combination of scientist...more details Format:Paperback Pages:262
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Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez;Wade Davis
ISBN:9781596680555
A richly illustrated look at Andean weaving, which embodies the living history and culture of the Peruvian highlands, this guide extensively catalogs many of the intricate patterns found in traditional Peruvian textiles. Exploring the personal histories of the Quechua people who sustain this tradition...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
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Davis Wade
ISBN:9781847921840
* If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles...more details Format:Hardback
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Wade Rathke;Mike Davis
ISBN:9781844672318
Inspiring story of the struggle to rebuild the heart of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, urban planners...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Davis Wade
ISBN:9781742580524
This years best selling Massey Lecture The Wayfinders takes readers on a journey through time on a discovery of ancient wisdoms, languages and cultures. Some are already extinct...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272