
The Wayfinders
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
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Narrateur(s):
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Tom Perkins
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Auteur(s):
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Wade Davis
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, 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 10 centuries before Christ. In the Amazon, we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization, the Peoples of the Anaconda. In the Andes, we discover that the earth really is alive, while in 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 45 years of Buddhist retreat and solitude. And, finally, we settle in Borneo, where the last rain forest 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 catalog 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.
©2009 Wade Davis (P)2017 TantorPraise for the author
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He is a lively narrator with an excellent sense of humor, and also is able to clearly deliver the message of why things went awry in many cases, and how our world is in peril due to misunderstandings of how others relate to their environments.
I wish every ambassador and politician listened to Prof. Davis to understand the impact of decisions they make on places they know nothing about, because of arrogance, false assumptions, ignorance, and greed. It is eye opening.
Puts many things in perspective with lots of "aha" moments.
Masterful.
Absolutely fascinating!
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An important dissection of how and why the modern culture fails to fulfill
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