Wade Davis

One River

Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the hallucinogens and medicinal plants of the region, he returned after twelve years of travelling through South America in a dug-out canoe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780099592969
• ISBN-10: 0099592967
• Artikelnr.: 40498110

Autorenporträt

Wade Davis is a multi award-winning writer and acclaimed photographer whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He is the bestselling author of 22 books, including One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, which was awarded the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.