SHADOWS IN THE SUN: TRAVELS TO LANDSCAPES OF SPIRIT AND DESIRE

Book ID/图书代码： 06745505B02542

English Summary/英文概要： Wade Davis has been called "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity." In Shadows in the Sun, he brings all those gifts to bear on a fascinating examination of indigenous cultures and the interactions between human societies and the natural world.

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.

As Davis explains, "To know that other, vastly different cultures exist is to remember that our world does not exist in some absolute sense but rather is just one model of reality. The Penan in the forests of Borneo, the Vodoun acolytes in Haiti, the jaguar Shaman of Venezuela, teach us that there are other options, other possibilities, other ways of thinking and interacting with the earth." Shadows in the Sun considers those possibilities, and explores their implications for our world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 旅行带来的最强烈的享受就是可以与怀旧的人共同感悟人生，他们还会迎着风，感受历史，触摸着饱经风霜的岩石，体味过去的味道，在苦涩的叶子中品味它的滋味。
天才科学家、学者兼作家Wade Davis使出浑身解数，淋漓尽致地表现出了原住文化以及人类社会与自然界之间的神奇。
从英属哥伦比亚的荒地出发，跋涉亚麻逊丛林，走过北极圈的极地冰原，可以说《太阳底下的倒影》见证了一个充满灵动的世界，在那里生灵可以昂首挺胸地漫步，令人神往。Davis这样解释道：“只要知道还有游牧猎人们存在，明白美洲虎萨满人竟然可以到银河系以外的地方遨游，领会阿萨帕斯族长辈们讲述的神话至今仍意味深长的话，那么这就是说明我们还记得这个世界不是存在在绝对中的，它只是一个现实的模型。” 这本浓缩了世界各地旅行见闻的作品，从本质上讲，就是写景色和人物，表现了土生土长本地人的睿智以及一群企图重新挖掘这种领悟力的人的贪婪和失败后的可悲结果。

Awards/获奖情况：Anthropologist and ethnobotanist Davis has sojourned in places where people still live in harmony with the earth, remote communities at the base of the Himalayas, on the ice of the Arctic, or deep in the center of the Amazon rain forests. In essays so sensitively written their pristine language reflects the landscapes they describe, Davis chronicles his unusual adventures and striking observations as a welcome guest in these spiritually vibrant enclaves now threatened by industrial invasion. Drawing on the great wealth of botanical, anthropological, and historical knowledge from which he created his magnum opus about the Amazon, One River (1996), Davis delves into the mysteries of South American shamanic healing and Haiti’s vodun religion, relates the maddening story of the fight to save the rain forests of Borneo, and describes the ingenuity of the Inuit. Truly global in thought and deed, poetic and outspoken, Davis deftly illuminates the little understood connection between biodiversity and cultural diversity and strongly suggests that more be done to preserve what’s left of wilderness.---Donna Seaman, From Booklist

Davis, who holds a Harvard Ph.D. in ethnobotany and degrees in biology and anthropology, is also a prolific writer (e.g., One River, LJ 7/96). His current work is an eclectic collection of essays, some previously published, dealing with topics that include hallucinogenic plants (of which he partakes), toad licking, disappearing rain forests, Haitian voudoun, and the elusive clouded leopard. While at first glance these may not seem related, an overall appreciation for native cultures and for the natural world is evident throughout. Davis is straightforward and clear but not quite spellbinding. Still, this enjoyable read takes the armchair traveler to places few have written about. Recommended for all travel collections.?Kathleen A. Shanahan, American Univ. Lib., Washington, DC---From Library Journal

"The wonders of the diversity of various cultures are hunted, gathered, and appreciated here--Davis’s lovely, cubist, rich landscape portraits are topographies of spirit, conveying a sense of the music of place."---Kirkus Reviews

About the Author/作者介绍： Wade Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology, and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, from Harvard University. He spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, and later went to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies. The Haiti assignment led to his writing The Serpent and the Rainbow (Simon and Schuster, 1986), an international bestseller that was later released as a feature motion picture. He has published more than 90 scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from Haitian vodoun and Amazonian myth and religion to the global biodiversity crisis, the traditional use of psychotropic drugs, and the ethnobotany of South American Indians. Among his other books are Nomads of the Dawn (Pomegranate Press, 1995), Passage of Darkness (University of North Carolina Press, 1988) and One River (Simon and Schuster, 1996).

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