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THE FALLING SKY - WORDS OF A YANOMAMI SHAMAN - ...

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   ¿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   ¿A literary treasure¿a
must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.¿ ¿
New Scientist   A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa  shaman and
spokesman for the Yanomami  The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous
culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures  and its devastating
encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language  Kopenawa recounts his
initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries  cattle ranchers 
government officials  and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon.   A
coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy  this
impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples¿ rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating
depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and
development.

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