Beneath the Surface of Things
with Wade Davis
Hosted by Carleton’s Adrian Harewood
In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science
Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.
We are thrilled to welcome anthropologist, explorers and bestselling author Wade Davis back to the Festival stage for a conversation with Carleton’s Adrian Harewood.
His latest book, Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays, 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.
The anthropological lens 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.
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