LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

    It is hope that these photographs and stories will provide a moving and visceral sense of the wondrous diversity and character of the ethnosphere,a notion perhaps best defined as the sum total of all thoughts,beliefs,myths,and inturtions maed manifest today by the myriad cultures of the world.The ethnosphere is humanity's greatest legacy.It is the product of our dreamsm the embodiment of our hopes,the symbol of all that we are and all that we have created as widly inquistive and astornishingly adaptive species'.

作者简介
WADE DAVIS is an acclaimed photographer,ethnobotanist and writer,who has degrees in anthropology and biology as well as a PHD in ethnobotany from Harvard Univrsity.His many books include The Clouded Leopard,One River:Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forst and The Serpent and the Rainbow.His photographs have been exhibited at a number of galleries,including The Internationnal Center for Photography in New York and the Carpentern Centre in Cambrige,and have been published in magasines as diverse as Time,People,Discover,Ommi,Science,Stern and Geo.Wade Davis is Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.He lives with his wife and two children in Wasington,DC

Preface
CHAPTER ONE THE WONDER OF THE ETHNOSPHERE
CHAPTER TWO THE EYELIDS OF WOLVES
CHAPTER THREE THE FOREST AND THE STARS
CHAPTER FOUR THE FACE OF THE GODS
CHAPTER FIVE THE LAST NOMADS
CHAPTER SIX THE LAND OF SNOWS
CHAPTER SEVEN A THOUSAND WAYS OF BEING
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