J. David Lewis-Williams Ordre des livres

In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent.Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father’s journeys, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. They are real, imagined, and artistic journeys, exploring communication across time and space, and experiments in scientific and poetic measure.Erebus transports us to an Antarctic of paradox. A land where perpetual daylight balances months of austral darkness. A land of encounters with the unknown, and with mortality – but where camaraderie and faith are the only defence against catastrophe.At its heart, Erebus is a visit to the frozen underworld, and an exploration of how we find a place for ourselves in this vast and often unforgiving world we call home.

Welcome to Deception Island, a tiny Volcanic caldera in the Antarctic Ocean. Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with whalebones testify to mankind's greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific exploration, witness to human attentiveness and fortitude.

A brilliantly argued and elegantly written examination of the intricate web of belief, myth and society in the Neolithic period.

Autor knihy Mysl v jeskyni se svým kolegou zkoumají složitou pavučinu víry, mýtů a společnosti v neolitickém období, kdy se zrodilo zemědělství a třídně rozdělená společnost, jak ji známe dnes. Autoři se zaměřují na dvě odlišná místa a období: Blízký východ s jeho kultovními stavbami a ukládáním lebek a západní Evropu s jejími kamennými monumenty staršími než egyptské pyramidy. Autoři, kteří čerpají z moderních výzkumů a objevů, spojují tyto poznatky s lidským vědomím, fantazií a vírou, aby vytvořili provokativní nové teorie o příčinách pradávné revoluce v kosmologii a původu složitosti lidské společnosti.

Offers an explanation for the origins of prehistoric cave art, providing a glimpse into the mind of humankind's earliest ancestors and insights into the relationship between consciousness and artistic representation. Reprint.

In this unique and enthralling collection of folk stories that float to us from afar, the voices of long-dead ‘Bushmen’, or San people, of southern Africa speak of their poignant myths and beliefs. We hear them speak of their tormented lives as the early colonist expanded into the semi-arid interior.All these stories have lain hidden since they were first collected more than a hundred years ago by a remarkable family in Cape Town who devoted their lives to recording the life-ways of the Xam San before their disappearance. Today there is a need for us to listen to these voices from the past. They fill in one of the tragic blanks in South Africa’s history. Suddenly a people who have spoken only through other’s voices, now speak out and come alive on the pages of this book.