Shadows in the sun : travels to landscapes of spirit and desire

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827911503321
• Autore: Davis Wade
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified], : Island Press, 1998
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetti: Human ecology - Cross-cultural studies; Landscape assessment - Cross-cultural studies; Philosophy of nature - Cross-cultural studies; Anthropology; Social Sciences; Anthropogeography & Human Ecology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Hunters of the Northern Ice -- Dreams of a Jade Forest -- The White Darkness -- The Clouded Leopard -- Passion in the Desert -- The Forests of Amazonia -- White Blood of the Forest -- The Art of Shamanic Healing -- Plants of the Gods -- Cactus of the Four Winds -- Smoking Toad -- Breaking Trail -- In the Shadow of Red Cedar -- The End of the Wild -- Index -- Original Sources.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ranging from the British Columbian wilderness to the jungles of the Amazon and the polar ice of the Arctic Circle, Shadows in the Sun is a testament to a world where spirits still stalk the land and seize the human heart. Its essays and stories, though distilled from travels in widely separated parts of the world, are fundamentally about landscape and character, the wisdom of lives drawn directly from the land, the hunger of those who seek to rediscover such understanding, and the consequences of failure.