One River

Travel

Wade Davis

Travel Writing

Vintage Digital

Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia

KNOPF

<p>A Harvard ethnobotanist chronicles his undercover investigations of Haitian voodooism and the phenomenon of Zombies, a quest that yielded the actual chemical formula for producing the Zombi state</p>

The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic

Science & Math

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Magdalena

Vintage Books Canada

Light at the Edge of the World

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

BLOOMSBURY

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no strangers

Annenberg Foundation

Wallis Annenberg [Foreword]

annenberg space for photography

Magdalena: River of Dreams

South America

Vintage

The Clouded Leopard : Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Douglas & McIntyre, Limited

Light at the Edge of the World : A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures

<p>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 twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth, twenty had seen the worst of the fighting. Six had been severely wounded, two others nearly killed by disease at the Front, one hospitalized twice with shell shock. Three as army surgeons dealt for the duration with the agonies of the dying. Two lost brothers, killed in action. All had endured the slaughter, the coughing of the guns, the bones and barbed wire, the white faces of the dead. In a monumental work of history and adventure, ten years in the writing, Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day. His answer lies in a single phrase uttered by one of the survivors as they retreated from the mountain: 'The price of life is death'. Mallory walked on because for him, 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. They were not cavalier, but death was no stranger. They had seen so much that it had no hold on them. What mattered was how one lived, the moments of being alive. For all of them Everest had become an exalted radiance, a sentinel in the sky, a symbol of hope in a world gone mad.</p>

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

History

Europe

Bodley Head

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