Documenting some of the most remote people of central Asia, this beautiful blend of multidisciplined artwork and travel-adventure writing celebrates the natural world while also capturing the fragility of man’s relationship with it. This masterfully illustrated account of the Kharnakpa tribe of Tibetan Buddhist nomads in Ladakh is peppered with both humor and anthropological observation.

Wild Places, Wild Hearts: Nomads of the Himalaya

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Smutylo, Allen

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Over the last forty years, Canadian adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The stories in The Memory of Water―all of them accompanied by the author’s own stunning artwork―describe his adventures in the Arctic, South Pacific, Great Lakes region, and India. In the Arctic he is attacked by a polar bear, stalked by a rogue walrus, and nearly drowns in ferocious waters. But his Arctic stories also celebrate human creativity as they recount the life of the pre-Inuit people, who, hunting in a changing environment, endured many hardships and developed new technologies, such as the sea kayak, to cope. Other stories include an account of a sojourn in a small Georgian Bay fishing village as a young artist, an adventure on an urban river in southwestern Ontario, and a portrayal of the complex underwater world of the South Pacific. Travelling the River Ganges in India, the author finds that a massive misuse of water is complicated by a billion people’s faith-based adoration of the same water. The Memory of Water probes a crucial and contemporary issue―that of our relationship to water and the wildlife and human life that depends upon it. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the natural world, in artistic depictions of it, or in a good story well told.

The Memory of Water (Life Writing, 47)

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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