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The Clouded Leopard

The Clouded Leopard

A Book of Travels

by Wade Davis
Paperback
Publication Date: 11/09/2007

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'It is a violent overture, like the opening notes of an opera about war, a war between humans and the land.' For many years and through many of the world's most remote regions, Wade Davis has travelled in search of the rare places where cultural diversity survives, untainted by the influences of globalisation and modernisation. "The Clouded Leopard" brings together the extraordinary travels that sprang from this quest. In Peru, Davis spends time with the San Pedro cult and their shamans, in the frozen north of Canada he hunts narwhal with the Inuit and, in Haiti, he unravels the complexities of the Vodoun religion and way of life. He describes the systematic destruction of the forests of Malaysia - far worse than that of the Amazon - and treks to the valleys of the Himalaya, where snow leopards and blue sheep still roam. His travels emphasise the fragility of the planet yet also illuminate the places and people where the bond between landscape and spirit is preserved. Beautiful and disturbing, tragic and yet hopeful, "The Clouded Leopard" sends out a timely message that cannot be ignored.
ISBN:
9781845114534
9781845114534
Category:
Travel writing
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11-09-2007
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
198x126x16mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Wade Davis

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 best-selling 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.

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