Name: One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest [Idioma Inglés]
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Author: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9780684834962

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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest [Idioma Inglés]

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wade Davis

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

1997

Language

English

Pages

544

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.61 kg.

ISBN

0684834960

ISBN13

9780684834962

Synopsis "One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest [Idioma Inglés] "

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America--Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis--an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.

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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Natalie Adorno Wednesday, May 29, 2024
un libro tan enriquecedor y con una narrativa tan bien lograda que todos deberiamos leer para conocer mejor Colombia
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