Download or read book The Vanishing Rainforest written by Richard Platt and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the Brazilian rainforest vanishing so quickly? And why is it essential to the whole world? This story describes how a native tribe is battling potential developers. Can a solution be found that will protect the forest and allow the tribe to continue living as they always have done, while benefiting from limited development?Ages 7 and up

Download or read book Vanishing Treasures of the Philippine Rain Forest written by Lawrence R. Heaney and published by Field Museum of Natural. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated study of the flora and fauna of the Philippine rain forest which explains its origins as well as the reasons that its imminent destruction threatens the economic and social well-being of the Philippine nation.

Download or read book Rainforest Medicine written by Jonathon Miller Weisberger and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the practices, legends, and wisdom of the vanishing traditions of the upper Amazon, this book reveals the area's indigenous peoples' approach to living in harmony with the natural world. Rainforest Medicine features in-depth essays on plant-based medicine and indigenous science from four distinct Amazonian societies: deep forest and urban, lowland rainforest and mountain. The book is illustrated with unique botanical and cultural drawings by Secoya elder and traditional healer Agustin Payaguaje and horticulturalist Thomas Y. Wang as well as by the author himself. Payaguaje shares his sincere imaginal view into the spiritual life of the Secoya; plates of petroglyphs from the sacred valley of Cotundo relate to an ancient language, and other illustrations show traditional Secoya ayahuasca symbols and indigenous origin myths. Two color sections showcase photos of the plants and people of the region, and include plates of previously unpublished full-color paintings by Pablo Cesar Amaringo (1938-2009), an acclaimed Peruvian artist renowned for his intricate, colorful depictions of his visions from drinking the entheogenic plant brew, ayahuasca ("vine of the soul" in Quechua languages). Today the once-dense mysterious rainforest realms are under assault as the indiscriminate colonial frontier of resource extraction moves across the region; as the forest disappears, the traditional human legacy of sustainable utilization of this rich ecosystem is also being buried under modern realities. With over 20 years experience of ground-level environmental and cultural conservation, author Jonathon Miller Weisberger's commitment to preserving the fascinating, unfathomably precious relics of the indigenous legacy shines through. Chief among these treasures is the "shimmering" "golden" plant-medicine science of ayahuasca or yajé, a rainforest vine that was popularized in the 1950s by Western travelers such as William Burroughs and Alan Ginsberg. It has been sampled, reviled, and celebrated by outsiders ever since. Currently sought after by many in the industrialized West for its powerful psychotropic and life-transforming effects, this sacred brew is often imbibed by visitors to the upper Amazon and curious seekers in faraway venues, sometimes with little to no working knowledge of its principles and precepts. Perceiving that there is an evident need for in-depth information on ayahuasca if it is to be used beyond its traditional context for healing and spiritual illumination in the future, Miller Weisberger focuses on the fundamental knowledge and practices that guide the use of ayahuasca in indigenous cultures. Weaving first-person narrative with anthropological and ethnobotanical information, Rainforest Medicine aims to preserve both the record and ongoing reality of ayahuasca's unique tradition and, of course, the priceless forest that gave birth to these sacred vines. Featuring words from Amazonian shamans--the living torchbearers of these sophisticated spiritual practices--the book stands as testimony to this sacred plant medicine's power in shaping and healing individuals, communities, and nature alike.

Download or read book A Death in the Rainforest written by Don Kulick and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village. An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.

Download or read book Vanishing Eden written by Edward G. Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vanishing Rain Forest written by Lynn M. Stone and published by Rourke Publishing (FL). This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the causes and consequences of rainforest destruction.

Download or read book The Vanishing Rain Forest written by Charles Petit and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vanishing Rain Forest written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ecocide and Genocide in the Vanishing Forest written by Gary E. McCuen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the controversies surrounding the destruction of the tropical rain forest.

Download or read book Vanishing Paradise written by Stephen Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1993-11-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vanishing Rain Forests written by Ted O'Hare and published by Rourke Publishing (FL). This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the disappearance of plants and animals because of the vanishing rain forests.

Download or read book Vanishing Eden written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vanishing Eden written by Rita Kimber and published by Barron's Educational Series. This book was released on 1991 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the immense variety of plant and animal life that struggles to survive in a constantly shrinking portion of the earth's tropical region.

Download or read book Last Stands written by Larry Pynn and published by Corvallis, Or. : Oregon State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result is a fascinating book, one part impassioned travelogue and one part natural history."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Vanishing Paradise written by Stephen Dalton and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humid, densely verdant and mysterious, tropical rainforests are the richest source of life on this planet and home to more than half the wild animals and plant species in the world. This is a lavish and colorful celebration of a fragile paradise whose survival is crucial to the future of planet Earth. 200 full-color photographs.

Download or read book The Intemperate Rainforest written by Bruce Braun and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Braun (geography, U. of Minnesota) provides a new viewpoint on the complex cultural, political, and intellectual forces involved in the forest policies of British Columbia. Employing poststructuralist theory and using the 1993 protests over logging in Clayoquot Sound as his starting point, Braun assesses the colonial thinking behind 19th- century forest policies, the struggles of native peoples to regain their spaces, the assertion of so-called rational forest management as a new version of colonialism, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee's use of nature photography to promote their notion of pristine wilderness, ecotourism, and the continued impact of the vision of early 20th-century painter Emily Carr. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Download or read book The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest written by Nigel J. H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Insightful work, written for a popular audience, offers reader a general understanding of the region"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.