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Wade
Davis (Canada)
Wade
Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D in ethnobotany from
Harvard University. The author of The Serpent and the Rainbow, an international
best seller which appeared in ten languages and was later released by  Universal as a
motion picture, has written numerous books including One River (1996), nominated
for the 1997 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. His latest book, The
Clouded Leopard (1998), describes Davis' journeys from the rain forests of Borneo to
the mountains of Tibet, from the ice floes of the Arctic to the sands of the Sahara.
A native of British Columbia, Davis has worked as a park
ranger, forestry engineer, logger, big game hunting guide and has conducted ethnographic
fieldwork among several indigenous societies of northern Canada. He has published some 90
scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from Haitian voodoo and Amazonian myth
and religion to the global diversity crisis, the traditional use of psychotropic drugs,
and the ethnobotany of South American Indians. He has written for Newsweek, Premiere,
Outside, Omni, Harpers, Fortune, Men's Journal, Condé Nast Traveler, Natural History,
National Geographic, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Globe
and Mail, and several other international publications. His photographs have been
widely published.
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