
The Wayfinders
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
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Narrated by:
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Tom Perkins
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By:
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Wade Davis
About this listen
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.
In Polynesia, we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific 10 centuries before Christ. In the Amazon, we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization, the Peoples of the Anaconda. In the Andes, we discover that the earth really is alive, while in Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of Africa. We then travel to Nepal, where we encounter a wisdom hero, a Bodhisattva, who emerges from 45 years of Buddhist retreat and solitude. And, finally, we settle in Borneo, where the last rain forest nomads struggle to survive.
Understanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next century. For at risk is the human legacy - a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalog of the imagination. Rediscovering a new appreciation for the diversity of the human spirit, as expressed by culture, is among the central challenges of our time.
©2009 Wade Davis (P)2017 TantorBeautiful
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Broadened my sense of history and peoples.
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Instead of acknowledging that money played no part in the health, wealth and wisdom of the ancient simple living Wayfarers, or that Mother Nature is kicking our butts back for that very first fire we started way back when.
Thanks Wade Davis for your collected words and Tom Perkins your eloquence, much appreciated gentlemen :-)
Great history…
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informative and simple to follow
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If I could give six stars...
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A little dry and preachy
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