Beneath the Surface of Things
Beneath the Surface of Things
Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Melissa Poremba
, Dawn Macdonald
, Sharon Forzley
, Janice Cournoyer
, Candace Fertile
, Patricia McKeown
, Robert Hykawy
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Christopher Evans
, Sarah Schwartz
, Denise Duvall
, Jude Castillo
, Kirsten Lyon
, Susan Toy
, Holly Elisabeth
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Sara Conway
, Lucy Cappiello
, Lisa Mallia
, Ken Gilmour
, Lynn Bechtel
, Kim Cappellina
, Benita Hartwell
, Joseph Chirayil
, Randi Ann Doll
, Mary Lester
, Maureen Brownlee
, Joe Mitchell
, Sandra Furlotte
, Wendy Houlden
, Charles Leblanc
, Karen Nordrum
, Landon Mai
, Linda Leitch
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Amanda Schempp
, Susan Jang
, Patricia Johnson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Andrea Pole
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Barry Kazimer
, Agnes Marshall
, Mary Danieli
, Rhona Brinkman
, Deanna Radford
, Lynn Andrews
, Linda Ham
, Allison Dube
, Claire Gear
, Melissa Singh
, Kartik Gupta
, Joshua Lewis
, AASTHA SABHERWAL
, Prabh Toor
, Marcia Aronson
, Heather Belliveau
, BJ Underwood
, Maria Mclean
, Rebecca Dixon
, diana kirkwood
, Jessica Murray
, Kym Marsh
, Laurie Burns
, Lynn Tait
, Carl Scott
, Brian Yee
, Vanessa S
, Damen Rae
, Catherine Westerberg
, Tanis Anne
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Rose Ghaedi
, Dani Kat
, Anna Krentz
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Brett Hodnett
, Janet Meisner
, Wanda Brine
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Karen McMullin
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
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The essays in this collection came about during the unhurried months when one who had traveled incessantly was obliged to stay still, even as events flared on all sides in a world that never stops moving. Wade Davis brings his unique cultural perspective to such varied topics as the demonization of coca, the sacred plant of the Inca; the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; reaching beyond climate fear and trepidation; on the meaning of the sacred. His essay, “The Unraveling of America,” first published in Rolling Stone, attracted five million readers and generated 362 million social media impressions. Media interest in the story was sustained over many weeks, with interview requests coming in from 23 countries.
The anthropological lens, as Davis demonstrates, reveals what lies beneath the surface of things, allowing us to see, and to seek, the wisdom of the middle way, a perspective of promise and hope that all of the essays in this collection aspire to convey.
