The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa, Alison Dundy, Nicholas Elliott, Bruce Albert

The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

Davi Kopenawa, Alison Dundy, Nicholas Elliott, Bruce Albert

648 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Ko...

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