The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (Kopenawa Davi)(Paperback)

The 10th anniversary edition A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation
A New Scientist Best Book of the Year
A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year "A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one's personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds."
--Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review "What does it mean when someone says they can understand the inner lives of animals, trees, or even forests?...The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us."
--Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian "The most vivid and authentic account of shamanistic philosophy I have ever
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