The Serpent And The Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

• Author : Wade Davis
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 14,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2010-10-05
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 310
• ISBN 10 : 9781451628364

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A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.

The Serpent and the Rainbow

• Author : Richard Maxwell
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 10,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1988
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 115
• ISBN 10 : OCLC:801236808

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Press kit includes a clip sheet, an announcement sheet, a listing of credits and cast, production notes, an article about the cast, an article about the filmmakers, brief biographies on Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, Wes Craven, Richard Maxwell, and Wade Davis.

The Rainbow Serpent

• Author : Trevor Pryce
• Publisher : Abrams
• File Size : 10,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-10-13
• Genre: Juvenile Fiction
• Pages : 304
• ISBN 10 : 9781613126707

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The fight to protect the Amphibilands rages on in the second book of this action-packed, illustrated series by former football pro Trevor Pryce. The spider queen and Lord Marmoo of the scorpions still have their eyes and fangs set on the vulnerable home of the frogs, and this time they've got some impressive backup: the ghost bats, taipan snakes, and blue-banded bees. The constant threats from the outside are keeping the frog warriors busy, so while Gee and Coorah hold down the defenses, Darel and the Kulipari go in search of their dreamcasting turtle friend, Yabber. Yabber, once found, insists he knows who holds the key to saving the Amphibilands: the Rainbow Serpent. With some powerful new allies and a destiny greater than he could have possibly imagined, Darel may be able to beat his enemies and protect his home once and for all.

The Rainbow Serpent

• Author : Dick Roughsey
• Publisher : Harpercollins Childrens Books
• File Size : 18,7 Mb
• Release Date : 1993-09-15
• Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
• Pages : 32
• ISBN 10 : 0207174334

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Recounts the aborigine story of creation featuring Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent.

Passage of Darkness

• Author : Wade Davis
• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• File Size : 13,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2000-11-09
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 365
• ISBN 10 : 9780807887585

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In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process and examine it for potential medical use. Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion.

One River

• Author : Wade Davis
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 16,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2010-05-11
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 544
• ISBN 10 : 9781439126837

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The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.

The Serpent King

• Author : Jeff Zentner
• Publisher : Tundra Books
• File Size : 15,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-03-08
• Genre: Young Adult Fiction
• Pages : 288
• ISBN 10 : 9781770498853

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Dillard Early, Jr., Travis Bohannon and Lydia Blankenship are three friends from different walks of life who have one thing in common: none of them seem to fit the mold in rural Tennessee's Forrestville High. Dill has always been branded as an outsider due to his family heritage as snake handlers and poison drinkers, an essential part of their Pentecostal faith. But after his father is sent to prison for sexual abuse of a young parishioner, Dill and his mother become real pariahs. His only two friends are Travis, a gentle giant who works at his family's lumberyard and is obsessed with a Game of Thrones-like fantasy series (much to his alcoholic father's chagrin); and Lydia, who runs a popular fashion blog that's part Tavi Gevinson and part Angela Chase, and is actively plotting her escape from Redneckville, Tennessee. As the three friends begin their senior year, it becomes clear that they won't all be getting to start a promising new life after graduation. How they deal with their diverging paths could cause the end of their friendship. Until a shattering act of random violence forces Dill to wrestle with his dark legacy and find a way into the light of a future worth living.

The Rainbow Serpent

• Author : Robert Lindsay Gardner
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 7,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1990
• Genre: Psychology
• Pages : 136
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015019839011

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Through the psychological interpretation of an Australian aboriginal myth ("The Myth of the Wawilak Women") and the making of a medicine-man, the author explores the role of the archetypes in the growth of both individual and collective consciuosness.

Wes Craven

• Author : John Kenneth Muir
• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 12,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2004-02-24
• Genre: Performing Arts
• Pages : 332
• ISBN 10 : 0786419237

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Filmmaker Wes Craven has consistently and imaginatively scared movie audiences since the early 1970s. His films encompass a variety of styles, elements and themes, from the nihilistic existentialism of The Last House on the Left to the successful A Nightmare on Elm Street (which sent horror in a bold new direction), to the hallucinatory dreamscapes of The Serpent and the Rainbow. And in the nineties, Craven returned with the Scream films, which were simultaneously funny, clever and scary films that overturned the horror cliches of the eighties. The present work provides a history of Craven's film career since 1972, examining all the themes and techniques the filmmaker explored. For each film, a synopsis, cast and credits, historical context, and critical commentary are provided. Also covered in detail are Craven's forays into television, including movies such as Stranger in the House and work on such series as The New Twilight Zone.

Light at the Edge of the World

• Author : Wade Davis
• Publisher : D & M Publishers
• File Size : 13,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2009-12-01
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 224
• ISBN 10 : 1926706897

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For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. In Light at the Edge of the World, Davis explores the idea that these distinct cultures represent unique visions of life itself and have much to teach the rest of the world about different ways of living and thinking. As he investigates the dark undercurrents tearing people from their past and propelling them into an uncertain future, Davis reiterates that the threats faced by indigenous cultures endanger and diminish all cultures.

Creations of the Rainbow Serpent

• Author : Mary W. Helms
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 17,5 Mb
• Release Date : 1995
• Genre: Animals in art.
• Pages : 160
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015034928187

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This volume explores the multicolored Cocle ceramic wares excavated at the Sitio Conte in central Panama during the 1930s. Many of which were unearthed in caches and burials of elite figures.

Under the Serpent Sea The Secrets of Droon 12

• Author : Tony Abbott
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• File Size : 9,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-10-27
• Genre: Juvenile Fiction
• Pages : 84
• ISBN 10 : 9780545418256

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A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon! The sea witch Demither is stirring up a storm in Droon. Keeah has to stop her! This mission could make or break Keeah's wizard training. And Eric, Neal and Julie think they can help their friend. But many surprises await them in Demither's underwater world-and many secrets will be revealed.

The Rainbow Serpent

• Author : Ira R. Buchler
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• File Size : 9,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2011-06-01
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 237
• ISBN 10 : 9783110807165

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Into the Silence

• Author : Wade Davis
• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 14,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2011-10-18
• Genre: History
• Pages : 672
• ISBN 10 : 9780307700568

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The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.

Rainbow Serpent

• Author : Merilyn Tunneshende
• Publisher : HarperThorsons
• File Size : 7,7 Mb
• Release Date : 1999
• Genre: Sex
• Pages : 252
• ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105029044901

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