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The Clouded Leopard: A Book of Travels
by Wade Davis
from Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The Endangered Meaning of Place
  In one chapter of this book Wade Davis quotes British writer Lawrence Durell as saying "To know a people..you need only a little patience, a quiet moment and a place where you might listen to the whispered messages of their land."
  Wade Davis has lived this suggestion and has harvested the knowledge of some of the most interesting cultures of the world, cultures threatened by the far reach of modernization and environmental destruction.
  Reading this book makes me feel like a teenager again. It is... more info

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