Podcasts about botanical exploration

Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, and Polynesia to the Arctic.Explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently a professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of 23 books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language.He holds degrees in Anthropology and Biology and received his PhD in Ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. His main film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the National Geographic Society.Davis, one of 20 honorary members of the Explorers Club, is the recipient of honorary degrees as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the 2011 Explorers Medal, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for Botanical Exploration, the 2015 Centennial Medal of Harvard University, the 2017 Roy Chapman Andrews Society's Distinguished Explorer Award, the 2017 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration, and the 2018 Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.In 2016, he was made a member of the Order of Canada. In 2018, he became an honorary citizen of Colombia. His latest book is Magdalena: River of Dreams was published by NAF in 2020.Episode Highlights▶ Wade's remarkable journey▶ The power of being an architect of your own life ▶ Wade's story of using Ayahuasca for the first time ▶ The role of psychedelics in social change ▶ Cultural perspectives on nature and psychedelics▶ The modern use and misuse of Ayahuasca ▶ The idea of sacred reciprocity and giving back when using sacred medicines ▶ The history of how psychedelics were discovered▶ The future of psychedelics and drug policy▶ Hope and wisdom for the futureWade Davis's Links & Resources▶ Website: https://daviswade.com/▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WadeDavisExplorer  Download Beth's free business trainings here: Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into a Transformational Business:https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-businessClarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business ▶ Beth's Programs & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Beth on Instagram: http://instagram.com/bethaweinstein▶ Beth Weinstein on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bethw.nychttps://www.facebook.com/BethWeinsteinbiz▶ Join the free Psychedelics & Purpose Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PsychedelicsandSacredMedicines

Join us as we talk with PhD Candidate Olivier Schouteden as we talk about French imperialism's explorers in late 19th century Indochina. How did these private adventurers interact with local people, the French imperial state, and how much control did the central state have over these people? What is an "explorer"? What does it say about the weaknesses of French imperialism, and how the French state eventually tried to reel them in? Olivier walks us through his dissertation and how the image of the explorer animated the spatial French imperial project, state-backed and private scientific societies, no matter the cost and resistance of people of present day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. We even see one explorer, Charles-Marie David de Mayréna, set up his own rogue country in the middle of madness: Kingdom of Sedang (the basis of the novel Heart of Darkness, set in Central Africa, which became Apocalypse Now, returning to Indochina.) Olivier talks about his research adventures in the archives in France, Cambodia, and Vietnam, looking at letters and papers of french explorers, his experience with teaching, and what's next. Books mentioned in the episode: "Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa" by Johannes Fabian https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/859138.Out_of_Our_Minds "The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture" by Michael F. Robinson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2091360.The_Coldest_Crucible "Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa" by Edward Berenson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8717661-heroes-of-empire "The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History" by Paul Carter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2854657-the-road-to-botany-bay "The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet" by Erik Mueggler https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11694721-the-paper-road "The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism" by Antoinette Burton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26262770-the-trouble-with-empire "Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen'" by Gregor Mueller https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16780270-colonial-cambodia-s-bad-frenchmen "Of Rats, Rice, and Race: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, an Episode in French Colonial History" Michael G. Vann (future book) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/42110 The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

First things first: this is an outstanding book. In the course of The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011), Erik Mueggler weaves together the stories of two botanists traveling through western China and Tibet in a lyrically-written story that treats the nature of writing, bodies, beauty, images, violence, and history in creating experiences of the earth. The characters are compelling, the story is important, and the work speaks to readers well beyond the field of East Asian Studies. Listen to Mueggler's comments, and then read the book. You will learn much, as I certainly did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First things first: this is an outstanding book. In the course of The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011), Erik Mueggler weaves together the stories of two botanists traveling through western China and Tibet in a lyrically-written story that treats the nature of writing, bodies, beauty, images, violence, and history in creating experiences of the earth. The characters are compelling, the story is important, and the work speaks to readers well beyond the field of East Asian Studies. Listen to Mueggler’s comments, and then read the book. You will learn much, as I certainly did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First things first: this is an outstanding book. In the course of The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011), Erik Mueggler weaves together the stories of two botanists traveling through western China and Tibet in a lyrically-written story that treats the nature of writing, bodies, beauty, images, violence, and history in creating experiences of the earth. The characters are compelling, the story is important, and the work speaks to readers well beyond the field of East Asian Studies. Listen to Mueggler’s comments, and then read the book. You will learn much, as I certainly did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First things first: this is an outstanding book. In the course of The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011), Erik Mueggler weaves together the stories of two botanists traveling through western China and Tibet in a lyrically-written... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First things first: this is an outstanding book. In the course of The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011), Erik Mueggler weaves together the stories of two botanists traveling through western China and Tibet in a lyrically-written story that treats the nature of writing, bodies, beauty, images, violence, and history in creating experiences of the earth. The characters are compelling, the story is important, and the work speaks to readers well beyond the field of East Asian Studies. Listen to Mueggler’s comments, and then read the book. You will learn much, as I certainly did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First things first: this is an outstanding book. In the course of The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011), Erik Mueggler weaves together the stories of two botanists traveling through western China and Tibet in a lyrically-written... Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies