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Earth is My Witness: The Photography of Art Wolfe by Wade Davis
$99.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Earth Is My Witness is the most extensive collection of Art Wolfe photography ever compiled. This lavishly produced work spans the globe, bringing the beauty of the planet's fast-disappearing landscapes, wildlife, and cultures into stunning focus. Containing unpublished work from throughout Wolfe's well ...Show more
Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What ...Show more
Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the 26 British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 m ...Show more
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest's North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, wa ...Show more
Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
For renowned anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis, the term " ethnosphere" encompasses the wealth of human diversity and all that traditional cultures have to teach about different ways of living and thinking. In "Light at the Edge of the World, Davis--best known for "The Serpent and the Rainbow- ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their he ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
From the bestselling author and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize- the epic story of Colombia's Rio Magdalena and of the country's past, present and futureA captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the grea ...Show more
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel
From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. 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 re ...Show more
The Lost Amazon by Wade Davis
$37.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
"The Lost Amazon" chronicles the journeys of legendary explorer, botanist, and counter-culture icon, Richard Evans Schultes. Regarded as the father of ethnobotany and described by his protege Wade Davis as the last of the great plant explorers in the Victorian tradition, Schultes revealed the botanical ...Show more
The Wayfinders - Why Ancient Wisdom Matters.in the Modern World. by Wade Davis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: CBC Massey Lectures | Reading Level: very good
The most prestigious and eagerly anticipated lecture series of the year, The CBC Massey Lectures are being delivered in 2009 by acclaimed author and anthropologist Wade Davis. Described as a "rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life's diversity," Davis is one ...Show more