Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

McKenna, Terence

ISBN 10: 0553078682 / ISBN 13: 9780553078688

Edité par Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1992

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 311 p. Audience: General/trade. Good in good dust jacket. Previous owner's lengthy inscription on ffep, else appears unmarked. Several page corners have been folded.

N° de réf. du vendeur Alibris.0016741

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
• Éditeur: Bantam Books, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0553078682
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780553078688
• Reliure: Hard cover

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Book by McKenna Terence

Présentation de l'éditeur

A journey to some of the Earth's most endangered people in the remote Upper Amazon. . . . a look at the rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon and Zaire. . . . . a field watch on the eating habits of 'stoned' apes and chimpanzees - these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanist Terence McKenna's extraordinary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. He wonders why, as a species, we are so fascinated by altered states of consciousness. Can they reveal something about our origins as human beings and our place in nature?

As an odyssey of mind, body and spirit, Food of the Gods is one of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consciousness ever written. And as a daring work of scholarship and exploration, it offers an inspiring vision for individual fulfilment and a humane basis for our interaction which each other and with the natural world.

'Brilliant, provocative, opinionated, poetic and inspiring. . . . . Essential reading for anyone who ever wondered why people take drugs.' Rupert Sheldrake