The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World [Audiobook] download free by Wade Davis
- Listen audiobook: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
- Author: Wade Davis
- Release date: 2009/8/20
- Publisher: HOUSE OF ANANSI PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780887847660
- Rating: 9.87 of 10
- Votes: 852
- Review by: Kolten Dalton
- Review rating: 7.76 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/22
- Duration: 3H20M54S in 256 kbps (52.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4, OGG, WMA (compression AZW3, ALZ, ZIP, CPIO, RAR, BZ, TZO)
- Total pages original book: 262
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M59S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true Lost Civilization, the people of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the Earth really is alive, while in the far reaches of Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of Africa. We then travel to Nepal, where we encounter a wisdom hero, a Bodhisattva, who emerges from forty-five years of Buddhist retreat and solitude. And finally we settle in Borneo, where the last rainforest nomads struggle to survive.Understanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next century. For at risk is the human legacy - a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalogue of the imagination. Rediscovering a new appreciation for the diversity of the human spirit, as expressed by culture, is among the central challenges of our time.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.59 USD
- Dimensions: 127x201x18mm
- Weight: 272g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Toronto, Canada, United Kingdom
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